Kiss Katalin: Industrial Monuments - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

The Láng Machine Works today

cooperation with the Ganz Works, in the electrification of the country. The Ganz Works produced the generators for power stations, while the Láng Works provided the steam engines and turbines. From 1910 Láng also produced diesel engines, and even complete equipment for sugar, alcohol and canning factories.

The Láng Works increased its range of products between the two world wars. It also offered conveyers for mines, air compressors, piston and vacuum pumps, printing machines, iron barrels and weaving looms.

We can discover here buildings from every period of its construction. When walking along the Váci út, we can see one of the oldest buildings of the plant. Its facade is made of brick, for practical reasons. It is decorated by emphasized horizontal brick cornices, and with attractive little brick frames around the double windows

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