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Ex Stabilimento Elettrochimico di Papigno. Terni (TR)
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The complex is one of the biggest sites of industrial archaeology in central Italy: 105.405 square meters large, of which 34.500 covered.
Located at the beginning of Valnerina, at just one kilometre from Marmore Falls, it has deeply changed the landscape, now marked by buildings in reinforced concrete and bricks with forced water pipes for the hydroelectric power plant, the quarry on the Monte S.
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Angelo and the reticular steel cableway that carries cyanimide passing over the Nera River.
The plant produced calcium carbide, chemical used in the public and private lighting through acetylene.
the complex started in 1901 as the main plant of the SICCAG (Italian calcium carbide, acetylene and other gases Company, launched in 1896). In 1911 the complex was provided with a big hydroelectric power plant for the need of electrochemical processes; the unused energy was sold.
This place was chosen for the industrial settlement because it allowed obtaining cheaply the raw materials necessary for the production of calcium carbide. In fact, it permitted to use the limestone deposit of the Monte S. Angelo and the biggest water jump of the derived water of the Velino River to produce electric energy.
The electrochemical plant was closed in 1973, but the department for the production of oxygen and hydrogen run by the Terni Siderurgica company for its own needs remained open and active until the ‘80s.
The area divided between the l'Ente nazionale idrocarburi (Italian multinational oil and gas company) and the Ente nazionale elettricità (Italian multinational energy company) was purchased by the city of Terni between 1997 and 2007. It was partially renovated to create a centre of film production.
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