MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC INFORMATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2014
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• Publication Date: July 28, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. In late 1961, tne Electromagnetica plant, situated on Calea nahovei,
BuchaFest; employed almost 3200 persons, Including about 2200
FT6duction workers. The number of employees, about half of whom
were women, had almost doubled since 1956. The first shift, in-
cluding administrative personnel, worked from 0630 until 1430 hours,
and a second shift worked from 1430 until 2230 hours when necessary.
The Electromagnetic& plant was one of the largest of its kind in
Rumania and had been subordinate to the Electrical Energy Depart.
talent
Industry since 1958.
of the Ministry for Heavy
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2. The Electromagnetica plant occupied ten building, including a-
canteen and a watchman's hut at the main entrance to the build-
ing; there was only one other entrance. The three moat important
buildings had three stories, and the rest had one or two storiee,
including a long oneestory building which had belonged to a plant
that was.transferred elsewhere. Zome of the ,plans for expansion,
which had been drawn in 19564958, had not been executed, including
a new administration building, the conversion of the old adminittra-
tion building for production, and the expansion of one of the
three-story buildings.
The Electromagnatica plant had the following departments directly'
engaged in productions
a. The chief designorie department for all the plant's .products,
which was divided into sections according to products. Of the
186 persons employed in this department, 140 Were electrical
'and commanication engineer and the rest were technicians and
draftimen..
b. The chief technologist's .department, which employed 130440
technicians.
c. TwoHmachine shops, which produced metaLparts.
d. A press and drill shop.
e. A die-casting shop.
fs A ehop producing bakelite parts.
g. A shop Producing rectifiers.
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h. A shop which assembled and regulated electrical measuring
instruments, such as ammeters, voltmeters, and single. and
triple-phase meters for measuring active and reactive current.
This shop, which had about 130 employees, all female, produced
the largest quantity of the plant's output. A large percentage
of these products was exported, and during the fiscal year
1960-1961, about 200,000 single-phase meters or active
current alone were exported.
1.-A shop which assembled and regulated automatic installations.
This shop produced Only automatic instruments for railroads,
including code relays
and other relays (no de-
taili)eand assembled control panels and electric control
switches.
t.j. A telephone shop, including a section which produced coils for
the entire plant.
k. A shop which produced automatic telephone exchanges with a
maximum of 10,000 extensions. In late 1961, production was
begun on automatic telephone exchanges with static elements.
1. A special military department which
produced portable field telephones, military telephone
exchanges, and automatic equipment for target shooting ranges
This department, which kept its designs and
production secret, employed 2045 engineers for design and
80400 workers for production. In 1956, it had produced
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portable radio transmitter-receiver sets, but this production
was soon transferred to the Radio Popular plant situated
near the railroad station in Bucharest.
m. A finishing shop.
n. A central laboratory, which employed about 100-120 persons and
was divided into acoustics, measuring instruments, automatic,
electrical, and radio sections.
o. Facilities which produced telephones, telephone relays,
distributing boxes, and manual telephone exchanges.
L. The national grid supplied the plant's electric power through an
underground transformer situated near the main entrance gate.
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2. Before 1956, the tfron
only three vere In operation.
cubic meters, an4 onatihaa, a c*ettr of 2
were then rebulit, increasing the capacity of A
,Pcapectively In 1956 an 1958, ts* new blast 11U3rnItce6 were tartan ,
vitt% 6 Moony of 450 and the other 700 eulric meter*. The bleat furolicea
Ma a ijn potentia. titut of 800,000 tons of 'east inn per am. In
?eptember 196X, eonitratton ee begun of two wore blast furnaces, each with
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turn*eevas
construction
plane for Anther
output las 1.2 million
tone ennually. tibet ot the steel
purposes and for the productiOn of
auxilliary casting department mks also
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constructed
Beftire World War XX until? 1959, the stee
casting department, and consisted of two
billets approximately 65 by 160 centimeters,
expellee& into a deportmentengi
In 1959, a n.000" blooming /114( e by the
had en =ea output of 1.2 million tons, 'bleb
for rolling from Czechoslovakia. Plans for the installet
mill woe made in 3.961. A "600" rolling all, nanariatured in
vas put into operation in 3.960. /n September 1961, 5 "VW rdLl. *leo
made in West Germany, vas nearly completed Precision sectional Steel sits to
be produced et this plant.
s part of
produced steel
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After World War III a eating plant Li built. It 'began opereting isirtlikUy
in 1957 and, in 3.9610 began operating fully after the inauguastion of its fourth
coking battery. informant tow no technical details.
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