UNITED CARBORUNDUM AND ELECTRIC WORKS COMPANY, BENATKY NED JIZERON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050213-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 213
• Publication Date: February 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT United Carborundum and Electric Works Company,
Benatky mad Jizerou
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NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Q.mershio
1. the United and Electric Works Company is located in Benatky mad Jizercu. Except
during World War II when it was controlled by the Germans, this company was controlled
by French shareholders until 1949 when it was nationalized by the Czech Government
without compensation to the shareholders.
Products and I actor nn Processes
2. Synthetic corundite is the only abrasive produced by this company. There are no other
by-products. The abrasive is manufactured in resistance furnaces, broken
with jaw crushers arid sorted by classified screens. The designed capacity of the plant
is 15 thousand metric tons prr year, at which rate the plant is presently opleratingg
Since the demand is greater than the capacity production it is planned to expand toe
plant by approximately 50%.
annt Facilities
3. The old buildings of the plant are of normal censt_rurti
bricks. The main production buildings are 20x120 rzeters ere.i whereas the of iron and red
equipment manufacturing bail he classifier
15xSo meters. The main administration building located at the main entranceeisale
15x50 meters; it is 'LL shaped and has three storlea.
4. The new buildings under construction in'late 1951 are of reinforced concrete.
5. Most of the important plant machinery is very old, maybe 50 ears and is partly It is in very poor mechanical condition and requires no special of
cal ability to operate. There are twelve single-phase electric resistance
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are -i -. - ~'v,"Lu
g transfornmers (made by CKD) . They
obao].ete and of pr~itiveconstruction. Fall; bodies arc used to break the large
manufactured
m]r jaw-0112s
ode, Pilsenb1nScreens useditos classi~ ythe abrasive t materal hers e manufactured by
material are manufactured in
the plants own shop.
Management and Labor
a at-the ^al -~ u ist ?p,a man wno ere arey
about plant. This is the usual Cystic aactice. There are
40 management and engineering per onne-i
There is n shortage of manpower in the plant. There are about 300 em o
%
pl aces' 40 of
'wham, as stated above, are mamgement en 'Ab t .15
labor is skilled, the rest is unskilled. FFortyepercentrof the.employees are of the
About 50% of the employees are living near the plnr_t; the e women.
not far from the remainder live in, villages
plant. Practically all personnel are of Czech (Bohemian or Moravian)
descent. Thcre are no training facilities since the locksmiths and fitters are re-
cruited from other plants. The workers require just a few weeks training to operate
the furnaces and breaking plant.
Services
8. The plant obtains power from the grid. Power consumption is between 2 and 2.25 EHH
per kilogram of abrasive.
about 30-35 The total annual consumption of power of the plant is
pendently known). MM (power consumption is calculated from production, not inde-
.
9. The provides the plant with an unlimited supply of water, requiring only
(rotary screen) equipment to make it usable.
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10. The plant consumes 15 thousand metric tons of alumina annually, lately the gover-rent
has required the factory to use Hungarian alumina exclusively. This alumina is un-
desirable because it is too finely ground, causing high processing losses, and has a
very high sulphur content which produces undesirable gases against which the employees
are not protected. In 1951 there were some reserves of .lumina smuggled in from Italy,
a practice which I believe will be energetically continued. This alumina was used
before and during World War II and has been demonstrated to be of better quality. A
large elumina plant is scheduled to come into operation in late 1954 in Czechoslovakia.
This will provide another source of alumina.
il. e~ annual consumption of anodic past (carbon) is very variable, depending on the
ty paste used in its manufacture. The source of this carbon is the
Siemens Pjania in Ratibor, Poland.
TrRnaDart-tioa end S e..
12. All internal handling of rev material and end products is by hand. They are transported wall l peer or textile begs by wheel-barrow. AL goods are received or chipped by
rail since the plant i directly on the State railroad.
13. There are facilities for bulk storage for six months; these are located in the vicinity
of the furnaces building.
14. The plant has adequate fire-fighting personnel and e
provided for the total personnel. Many provisions were re made de. ring borb shert11 are
tablish adequate anti ?ireraft Protection. during ibrld ikr II to ea-
es-
15. The plant has its own militia, a practice uiich is characteristic in Csechoslovakia for
guarding the ph7sioel plant and checking personnel for authorization. There are no
special restricted areej in the
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ENCLOSURE, (A) SECRET
SKETCH SHOWING LAYO(Tt' OF TIM UNITED CARBORUNWM AND ELECTRIC WORKS COMPANY IN BFNATTCy' PAD
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