A worker from International Chimney Corp. installs a steel beam to stabilize the top of the historic chimney stack at the Pepperell Mill campus in Biddeford. COURTESY / PEPPERELL MILL CAMPUS An ...

Work to take down roughly two-thirds of the historic 94-year-old brick Hoover Co. chimney stack for repairs could commence as early as next month. A contractor hired by the complex’s owner, Maple ...

The newspaper says engineers decided the stack was being held up by a web of reinforcement steel, or rebar, inside the tower. So the next plan was to use huge electrical saws to cut through the rebar.

An amazing sight in the Pinal County mining town of Superior over the weekend, as a piece of history came down. Magma Copper smelter’s chimney stack was safely and successfully demolished on Saturday.