I don't think this place has had widespread exposure even on American explore sites before, it's kind of in an area which is often overlooked as far as explores go with almost nobody local on the scene.

This factory was in operation from 1880 until 2005 and once pioneered the use of glued together staples (which in turn brought about the stapler as we know it) back in the early 1900s, and was also responsible for wire products with as wide ranging uses as in cash registers, computers, hospitals, in clean room manufacturing areas, on equipment used by the US military and, most obscure of all, to hang chickens by their feet on automated plucking lines!

Around a third of the factory has been demolished but the remaining sections have been left to rot and decay. It turned out to be a lot nicer inside than I thought it would be initially, and is quite an interesting place to photograph. After closure, a lot of the old staple-manufacturing machinery was donated to a technology museum as well as boxes of old records and catalogues found inside.

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Thanks for looking

These are really nice. The exposure is perfect on all of them. And great subject matter.