Wijk aan Zee en Duin est une ancienne commune néerlandaise de la province de la Hollande-Septentrionale. La commune était composée des villages de Wijk aan Zee et Wijk aan Duin (aujourd'hui un quartier de Beverwijk. En 1840, la commune comptait 119 maisons et 680 habitants. Le 1er mai 1936, la commune est supprimée et rattachée à Beverwijk.
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Wijk aan Zee en Duin is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland. It existed from 1817 to 1936, when it was merged with Beverwijk.
The municipality included the village of Wijk aan Zee and the countryside surrounding Beverwijk.
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Wijk aan Zee is a village on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk, the province of North Holland of the Netherlands. The prestigious Tata Steel Chess Tournament takes place there every year.
Due to its seaside location, Wijk aan Zee has become a popular destination among tourists. This is reflected in the village economy, which consists of many bars and hotels.
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Mekog was a chemical company founded 1928, that manufactured fertilizer using hydrogen from coke oven gas as a feedstock. The company's facilities were located on the site of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken steelworks near IJmuiden in the Netherlands.
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Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. is a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. Since 2010, the plant has been known as Tata Steel IJmuiden.
The steelworks is based in IJmuiden, the Netherlands. It was built between 1920 and 1940, first producing iron, later steel, with hot and cold rolling producing flat products. In the 1960s the company diversified into aluminium production.
The company merged its IJmuiden steel plant with German steel company Hoesch from 1972 forming the joint venture Estel and separated in 1982. In 1999, the company merged with the larger British Steel plc to create the Corus Group steel company. The aluminium production assets were sold off during the Corus period. In 2007, Corus Group was purchased by India-based Tata Steel and was renamed Tata Steel Europe in 2010.
In 2021, the company was split into a British and a Dutch branch: these fall directly under the Indian parent company Tata Steel and Tata Steel Europe ceased to exist.
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The Hoogovensmuseum is a museum located on the northern side of the North Sea Canal sluice gates at IJmuiden, in the former "buizengieterij" of Koninklijke Hoogovens, now Tata Steel IJmuiden, on the Buizenweg in Velsen-Noord. It overlooks the binnenkanaal where water was pumped up to use for cooling. The former cooling bath house has been converted to an exhibition space.
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