TICCIH International supports the efforts of VI.D.A. AMKE to preserve the mechanical equipment and archival material of PYRKAL Ymittos, and issues an appeal to the Ministries of National Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Culture to take immediate action.
We kindly urge all relevant parties who may come across this announcement to take the necessary steps, as PYRKAL is a historic industrial complex over 100 years old. It constitutes a vital part of Greece’s industrial heritage, having played a key role in the country’s national defense and having been a major exporter. Machinery and archival material of rare and irreplaceable value are currently being treated as scrap.
VI.D.A. has already expressed to the competent authorities of the Ministry of Culture its willingness to contribute in multiple ways to the preservation effort. These materials represent cultural heritage and their preservation is essential — they are part of our collective legacy and belong to future generations as well.
We are obliged to act swiftly.