WORK AT STALINVAROS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500820073-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 73
• Content Type: REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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1. The lamest steel mill in Hungary is being built at Stalinvaros Lsie . The work was
begun as an iraustrial combine at Mohacs, but abandoned there as a result of
the worsenint; of relations with Yugoslavia, and transferred to its present
location.
2. The construction of the mill and the supporting 'socialized city' were begun
by Building Industry Trusts No. 26/1, 33 and 31 In May 1950, witb about 15,000
workers, and carried forward at a rapid pace in spite of great difficulties due
to the loose and sandy soil.
3. The construction of the city, intended to house 20,000 persons, is going forward
parallel with that of the factory itself. There is a small stretch of wood between
town and factory.
4. On 26 Feb 54 the first -,un-off of the first large furnace was announced in the
presence of Z7overnrpent representatives and various guests. The construction of
the furnace was carried through on the Soviet pattern. Numerous parts of it
are of Soviet manufacture. Five engineers, four of the managerial group and
six master-workmen were trained in the Soviet Union, and all the work is inspected
by Soviet cxrerts.
5X1 5. describe this furnace as the most modern. in Hungary. The work
nom the arrival of raw materials to run-off is fully mechanized. The furnace can
use 160 carloads of raw materials daily. Daily production would make 140 tractors.
When Stalirvaros is working fully it will raise Hungary's raw iron capacity 30
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6. The mechanical department is in a building 120 by 25 by 20 m. It has sir 20-to:-
cranes. Spare parts and precision machinery are produced. There are about 500
workers in three shifts.
7. The foundry is In a building 120 by 3G ?, with three large smokestack--. The
building is of concrete and brick construction. There are railroad tracks through
the building and 14 ovens in addition to six Italian -?lrctric ovens. It also has
six 20-ton cranes.
There is a hard-burned bricl factory of 11 one-story brick buildings, each
by 20 m. Finished bricks ~.e stored in a building near the foundry. This
1s 80 by 40 n.
The factory's power ,.on Is 150 by 50 and has been working for several mor,._
It produced.-sufficie,. current for both fa.:l....y and town.
10. The next planned operation is the completion of the coke works. The coke works
is in a building 200 by 300 m, made of prefabricated parts. It holds the largest
overhead crane in Hungary, supplied by the Dirdvag factory.
11. It is expected that the Martin department will also be in production soon. It
differs from others of the same kind in being planned for complete air conditioning.
There are four Martin ovens of 125 ton capacity in the main department. The ovens
will not be loaded by crane but by movable loading machines.
12. Near this building stands the casting plant with a cooling section and the strippl:rg
shop with a drawing-crane of 175 tons capacity.
13. At one side of the stripping snop Is a storehouse for steel billets with two
automatic cranes, at the other the gas purification station and the building of
the mixing ovens. Near this is the dam in the local stream, crossed. by a railroad
bridge on concrete piles.
14. Near this bridge is the shop for burning chalk and dolomites. Still under con-
struction are the rolling mill, the tube factory, the copper roiling works, the
copper plate rolling shop, the boiler shop, the steam hammer shop, and the machine
shop.