HUTA POLOJ STEEL PLANT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500450230-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 230
• Publication Date: April 19, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

For Release 20010/09/11CIA-RDP80-00809A000500450230-4
U.S. Officials Oniy
north east of Ka1.: i e. It is entirely a company town with the steel plant the
only indti, try.
The plant ccnsist:, of-
:3, . Colo Oveni
b. Chemical Plant
c. Six.jBlast Furne.ce!: - Capacity 1.00/500 Mi's/Day each.
d. Seven Oper. Hearth Furnaces - Largest 100 Ts,,Day, Smallest iOTc/D_y.
C,:N.?ZAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT 25X1A
1. The UutaIPcloj tt-r' plant is located lin the town of Nowy Bytom .:.bout 10 miles
e. Bloatning i1111 32" Diam.
f. Re.il]I Mi1_.
he coke ovens
2 ? have beer entirely rebuilt rince World Vlar and the machine :;hop has beer,
re?equlpied with new modern machine tolols. The plant was not dumaged durint, the
Reversl.b'-.e - (^tructura1 steel,
n. 22)6OC YI.,, _rnver Lint:
roI..L d }
Plate mill - ;.:ximurn width two m.i. Ma:c1nium thickness 25 mm.
Sheet Mil..l mill with capacity of 3000 2!T?N per month.
Force - Five hammers: 10Ts, 12T, 5Ts and smaller
Str~J:aural for fabricating building frames.
Machine Shop For into nal repai.rs and manufacturing wheels and
.Scn4zlmir ldi:` for :nanafacture of sheet for tinning.
3. The t.otl.,, outru.t of the plant sras 250,'000 tons of finished steel products per
year .
25X1X
The muJotl output of steel s+au rails and acccnsories. Most of the wheels and axle:-,
munufr:ctu,red were ;hipped to USSR before World War II.
U.S. Officials Only
CONFIDENT.IU,
7*E LAW. ~PAQW FOR eU*ACT fk' ARZq CODES 25X1 A
11 ST,.TE ARMY j NAVY AIR FbI
DI S'NIGUT Ic
This report Is for the use within ti.e USA Ot the IntJligence compirents of the Departments or
Agencies indicated above. It islnot to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
originhEing office through the Assistant Director of the Office of Collection and Dl:zlemination. CIA.
Approved For Release 20010/09/11 CIA-RDP80-00809A000500450230-4
DATE DISTR. /9 Apr 1954
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diameter. They ,cze driven by .larger rol.?- or of roll; which were
er.c.sad In houeings end could transmit a high ore:::.ure to the mail roi?:-..
The bight they ccu?d take -%I,, much greater than with common ?rol,`.s and there
vd .; tencicn aarlied to the' billet being rclled ?,o that it was in tension
,,is .rttli. an ccm,)resstcn while pas-,ing through the rolls. The method used at
firrt, vas to the material in a continuous band for 13 to 15 net:;ree,
the extension of length being taken care of by pa:-cing tha;jband being roiiea
over n^ii try , ;n:?? of wnach n:z mounted on t c:~r ?'hicr. mo"Id'on a track q,: the
_^ngth _... . _,_ ^d.. '-or -mr1ravement :.nv,;;vet ? na! re the ma.ter_.ai on a
cc.. or nder. The dta o_ the fr.i--.hec. -heat ~.?r?_., r..vcrned by snecifi-
cation:? mr.,, in the
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