UNITED CARBORUNDUM AND ELECTRIC WORKS COMPANY, BENATKY NED JIZERON

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050213-0
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RIPPUB
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S
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3
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December 22, 2016
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August 10, 2011
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213
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Publication Date: 
February 8, 1954
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050213-0 CLASSIFICATION SECRET CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT COUNTRY Czechoslovakia SUBJECT United Carborundum and Electric Works Company, Benatky mad Jizerou _954 NO. OF PAGES 2 NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) 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 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050213-0 50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050213-0 - 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. LL 1 1sXia - 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 snelosore (A)= mostah Shoving iyazt of ~We_ United bormubmi and Electric Storks Campa,7 is Eanatiy lad Jlxsrcn Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050213-0 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050213-0 ENCLOSURE, (A) SECRET SKETCH SHOWING LAYO(Tt' OF TIM UNITED CARBORUNWM AND ELECTRIC WORKS COMPANY IN BFNATTCy' PAD J LYKOU Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/10: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050213-0