A general view of the ArcelorMittal Florange-Hayange blast furnace in Hayange near Florange, Eastern France. After the 2009 closure of the nearby Gandrange site, the recent ArcelorMittal’s decision to mothball two blast furnaces at its site in Hayange-Florange, increases the fear of the end of the forging and steelmaking tradition in the “Angel Valley” of the Lorraine region, turning it into a “Museum Valley”.
