Industrial Factories and Pollution

Various industrial plants emitting smoke and steam, showcasing the architectural features and environmental impact of factories.

The Cienfuegos power plant belching smoke, Cienfuegos, Cuba

Metallurgical works with smoke. Industrial architecture

The Cienfuegos power plant belching smoke, Cienfuegos, Cuba

Pulp factory with chimneys, Vallviks Works, Gastrikland, Norrland, Sweden, august

Steam rising from chimneys as sugar beet is processed at the British Sugar factory, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

09/01/2021, Leí§a da Palmeira, Portugal - PetrogalPortoOil Refinery

CUBA - Havana. Smoking chimney. Coal-powered electricity generating station. .

Destroyed buildings of the workshop of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol war in Ukraine with Russia

Harzgerode industrial estate

Blast furnaces of Huettenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, HKM Steelworks, at sunset, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Power Plant and Smoke Stack, Hogdalen, Sweden

Stahlindustrie in IJmuiden bei Amsterdam, Niederlande Steelmaking industry plant and North Sea Canal in IJmuiden near Amsterdam in Netherlands LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/cxJeannettexTasx 23249608

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Smoke stacks at Moss Landing Utility in Monterey Bay, California

Low angle view of smoke emitting from chimneys

The converters, pipes, tubes chimneys and structures of a illuminated petrochemical plant at night

Germany, Lower Saxony, Helmstedt, Buschhaus Power Station in the evening

BASF plant site on the banks of the Rhine, chemical company, foggy mood, Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe

Smokestacks at a Denver Utility Commission power plant, Denver, Colorado

Air pollution: factory and smoke in winter, Sarrebourg, Moselle, Lorraine, France.

The Teck Cominco zinc and lead smelter in Trail, British Columbia, Canada

Steaming smoke stacks at Kronospan Factory making wood based panels, chipboard and MDF at Chirk in Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Massa fabrik SCA W.Ostran Sundsvall

Petrochemical Plant Scotland

Oil and gas industry

Birmingham, Alabama, The Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. The furnaces made pig iron from 1882 to 1971. The facility is now open to the public.

Industrial belt

Industrial Plant, Igay, Spain

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Detroit, Michigan, Smokestacks with wireless communications equipment on the Detroit Thermal steam generating plant. The natural gas-fired plant delivers steam to more than 100 buildings in downtown Detroit

Pulp Mill in Jackson, Alabama

Pulp Mill in Jackson, Alabama

Gas turbine electrical power plant

A petroleum processing plant in Los Angeles, California.

BASF factory site with chemical plants and chimneys. Baden aniline and soda factories. Chemical plant, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Detail of the blast furnace group of Volklinger Hutte (Volklingen Ironworks), Volklingen, Germany

Vintage Photograph. Industrial factory emitting smoke at sunset, highlighting environmental impact and air pollution concerns.

Old town, Hessia, Germany, biogas plant

Industrieanlage und Abgase, Deutschland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ruhrgebiet, Castrop-Rauxel Industrial plant and exhaust gases, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr Area, Castrop-Rauxel BLWS722658 *** Industrial plant and Exhaust gases, Germany, North Rhine Westphalia, Ruhr area, Castrop Rauxel Industrial plant and Exhaust gases, Germany, North Rhine Westphalia, Ruhr Area, Castrop Rauxel BLWS722658 Copyright: xblickwinkel/S.xZiesex

Heide refinery, near Hemmingstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Former Thyssen AG steelworks, view from blast furnace 5 to Cowper plant and blast furnace 2

Trianel coal-fired power plant, Datteln-Hamm Canal, Luenen, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

America's largest air-cooled steam-electric Power Plant in Wyodak, WY

The Yan Lang coal fired power station in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia. It uses coal from an open cast coal mine across the road from it, as the Latrobe Valley has massiv

Steel mill, Baltimore

Smoke over refinery, Sweden.

Klingenberg power plant, cement works, Rummelsburg, Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Former Thyssen AG steelworks, view from blast furnace 5

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Industrial area, Sweden.

Smoking industrial chimneys, iron and steel industry, Aviles, Asturias, northern Spain, Europe

Oil petrochemical Factory plant with gas storage and structure of pipeline with smoke from smokestack in Kawasaki City near Tokyo Japan

Reprocessing plant of La Hague nuclear waste France

Aerial view of an industrial landscape featuring towering chimneys striped in red and white against a backdrop of complex structures and the horizon, Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal.

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Italy. Rosignano. Chemistry factory on the beach. Tuscany.

Gas combine electric power plant in the morning

Photo of refinery smokestack in Anacortes, Washington

Cargo Containers In Jacksonville Port, Jacksonville, Florida, United States Of America

Australia, Queensland, Capricorn Coast, Gladstone. Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) is the worlds largest alumina refinery. QAL refines bauxite into white powder called alumina. Producing more than 3.65 million tonnes of alumina each year, QAL accounts for around 7 per cent of Western-world production.

Great Plains Synfuels coal gasification plant near Beulah, North Dakota, USA.

Factory chimney with signal colors A red white striped factory chimney next to a factory hall.

The front-end of a steel plant, with a bulk carrier with iron ore being unloaded

northumberland, england, towers of a refinery

Aerial view of a sprawling industrial complex with towering chimneys and metallic structures under a vast, cloudy sky, Scunthorpe, United Kingdom.

North America, Canada, Quebec, Mauricie. Part of an aluminum plant.

Bridger coal plant, WY

Florida Power & Light StationTitusvilleFloridaU.S.A

Nymölla, Sweden - 21 September 2025: View of Sylvamo Nymölla Mill, its towering chimneys releasing plumes of smoke into the expansive sky above. Heaps of saw dust ready to be processed.

NA, USA, Montana, Laurel Morning view of oil refinery (Cenex Corp.)

USA, Louisiana, Atchafalaya Basin, Plaquemine, AF Canella Sugarcane Plant.

Cement factory view blue sunny day

Industrial silos in a old rusty inviroment

Industrial chimney of a power plant

Metallurgical plant at night. Steel factory with smokestacks. Steelworks, iron works. Heavy industry in Europe. Air pollution from smokestacks, ecology problems. Industrial landscape at dusk. Plant

Germany, Hamburg, industrial plant at harbour

A northern California lumber mill

Gas plant and bright yellow sulphur pile with blue sky and clouds, South of Pincher Creek; Alberta, Canada

UK - England, Cleveland, Redcar, Corus Steelworks at night

Thermo power plant, exploitation of coal

France, Hauts de France, Nord Department, Dunkirk. Harbour

Aerial view of a sprawling industrial complex, tanks gleaming under a vast sky near the coastline, chimney casting shadows over the refinery, Immingham, United Kingdom.

Oil and gas industry near the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta Canada

Power station at night, Carson, California, USA

Vintage Photograph. Oil refinery tower under a clear blue sky.

Chimney

Blast furnace at steelworks, Teesside Steelworks, Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland, Teesside, North Yorkshire, England, may

Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Grevenbroich, view to spreader in front of brown coal mining Garzweiler I

Escalante Generating Station smoke stacks.

View of Irving Pulp Mill and Reversing Falls.

View at steel factory with blue sky

Athabasca pulp mill, alberta, Canada.

View of a part of the Electric Central of the Provincial and Municipal Utrecht Stream Liver company (Pegus; Atoomweg 9) in Utrecht with the Oude Centrale on the other side of the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal (Keulsekade 189).

The hard coal-fired power plant - Grokraftwerk Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

France, Ile de France, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen. Docks district. Saint-Ouen CPCU power plant. Cpcu terminal pellets

Panoramic image, industrial heritage of the old economy, former smelter Phoenix West in Dortmund, Ruhr Metropolis, Germany, Europe

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