ECONOMIC - METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: October 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT NO.
1TiFORM.AT'IOY ON GDR, METALLURGICAL PLANTS
[This report contains mJ.cellaneoue information on production,
operations, and construction work at various metallurgical plants
in the Glut (German Democratic Republic].
The following reports have been received on various steel and rolling mills
in the GDR.
Brandenburg Steel and Roiling Mill
The rolling of sectional steel is to be started by the en_t of 1)1. The
rolling mill is to be constructed by the Wildeu Heavy Xsehine Building Plant.
The blueprints, which are to be suppliRd by the Central Construction and Tech-
nology Bareau of ?'''s Main Administration for Metallurgy, Ministry of Hear In-
dustry, had not yet arrived at the Wildau Plant by the beginning of. Pebrsar.;
1951 so that neither the material requirements nor the modals .could be sub-
mitted.
At the beginning of March 1951, Siemens-Martin furnace VI %me tapped.
The Five-Year Plan provides for an increase in the steel production of the
Brandenburg Plant to 700,000 tons annually.
Rtiesa Steel erd Rolli*ig Mill
In March 1951, a new section-steel foundry went into operation at this
plant which siakae possible the casting of ste01 sections weighing up to 40 tons.
In addition, alloy-stsel castings cars be produced in this foundry. The foun-
dry's now workshop is 190 note" long and is equipped with to Siseans-Aartln
furnaces and several void-drying Ravens, core-baking ovens, and nosling fur-
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The 1Ivu-sear Plan provides or an increase in the steel production of the
Riess Plant to 600,000 tons ennually.
In connection with the rolling of skelp Et the finishing mil.'., a repeater
was also designed for the high-sled section of this mill, which will make it
possible te. roil 14-20 millimeter round? bars. These new, methods reportedly will
reduce the required personnel strength by two skilled workers per shift.
The Saechsische, Zeit'of 14 March 1951 published. a statement of the Riess
Plant's party leaders on the severe criticism made some time ago by the Central
Committee of the SED (Socialist Unity Party) concerning the work at the Branden
burg f teel and. Rolling Mill.. The Rtesa Plant's party leaders mnintained that in
fall 1950, almost all points made in the criticism could also have been cor-
rectly appleed to the Riess Plant, since, at that time, the plant was consider-
ably behirri. in plan fulfillment. It has only been since reorganization that the
plent?s montniy production plans have been regularly fl lfill.ed and exceeded.
To help the Brandenburg Steel and Rolling Mill train new workers, the Bless
Plant has been continuously training groups of three or four smelters from -{rand
enburg since bic.-January 1951. In addition, the Riess Plant places i.ts cnrn
smelters and 4urnace instructors at the disposal of the Brandenburg Plant.
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East Metallurgical Combine, Fuerstenberg/Oder
be second blast furnace is to be put into operation in July 1952 roc ebly
sho.._ be 19517. The present plans for crude-steel production, differing from
foie reports, are given as 320,000 tons for 1952 and 520,000 tons for l'55.
Cons -action of the rolling-mill installations is to be started in 1953; upon
thei, completion, the annual outputs of the blooming mill and the plate-rolling
mill are scheduled to be 600,000 and 240,000 tons of rolled steel, respectively.
At the beginning of February 1951, the foundation of blast furnace I was
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required for the instaLlaticn work on blast furnace I was set up by the FF2
Stahloau (People-Owned Er.terprtse for Steel Construction). A large excavation
was made in front of the foundation for the ore bunker. Foundations for the fu-
ture machine shop were laid in the vicinity of blast furnace I.
As at the Brandenburg Steel, and Robing Mill, considerable difficulties iiri
critical problems arose in connection with the construction of the East ?$ei.51.-
lurgi.cal Combine. The following criticism was contained in a report of an In-
spection Commission of the FDGB (League of Free German Trade Uniors) Director-
ate: "Cona,ruction war. started by the administrations without all the required
plans being on hand. The transportation facilities are not regulated accurd-
img to the requirements of the plant and the workers. The uurracha and sani-
tary 'acilities are in bad condition. Medical care for the workers in innde-
quate." The Ministry of Heavy Industry was rerroached for not adequately co-
ordinating the work at the metallurgical combine. The Inspection Commission
receded that brigades, composed of outstanding specialists, organizers,
and trade-union functionaries from the Brandenburg and Maxhuette steel plants,
the shipyards, etc., be formed to visit the East Metallurgical Combine regularly.
It was suggested to the Ministry of Construction that the ex_seriences in con-
nection with the construction of the Polish "Nova Huta" plant be studied and
utilized for the consstruetior. of the East {Metallurgical Combine.
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If processed in the forge, the wort iecea burst open a c ,
processed mechanically, they exhibit hairline clacks after the outer layer has
The Selbk-. RASA (Railroad Repair Shop) complained considerably about the
quality of the lderhuette Plant's products: The terial which is delivered by
the rolling mill in Untervel.1enborn is very unsuitable for further processing.,
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Groeditz. Steel Plant
then, coatings of this type could allegedly e elaultaneouslY, so that the 95
To cast the anvil block, two furnaces were tcpped
tons of liquid steel could be fed into the sold. Your additional anvil blocks
are scheduled to be cast at the Groeditz Steel Plant in the near future.
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plant was cast at the Gro ditz Steel Plant for the first time in the 0I t. Up to
b reduced in West Germany only.
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chugs be in liquid fors, thus, the time :.-' r
average duration of which was formerly 7 hours and 24 minutes, is allegedly re-
duced by 22 percent. This new process will supposedly also lover production
costs by 20-25 Deutsche marks per ton. Scrap is the m th raw material ;tee:. at
In 1951, this plant is scheduled. to deliver twice the quantity of bloc
that it delivered in 1950. This goal is to be achieved mainly by further de-
velopsnt of the rapid ese3~ting method- This process provides that part of the
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"Willi Becker" Rolling Hill, Kirchmoeaer
The rolling process is to be further mechanic at output. plant, no that the
,net .utput ern be eon.&44arab]v higher than the 1950 tphi
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percent increase in production has been achieved by the introduction of a nod
method of roiling wirer it is alas 'planned to iwcrove the quality of the production. In this connection, Forster, director of the rolling mill, wrote:
"Although we have .iucceeded thus far in producing good-quality products with the
available means, we could not meet all to quality specifications of the con-
sumer. It is necessary that we expend the straightening section of our heavy-
plate rolling sill. By the and of the third quarter 1951, ve want to be rile to
deliver ecs4,letely satisfactory plate, which is correctly out, annealed, and
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ducts According to Forster, the improvement of the quality
ducts is not only i question of the plant's technical equipment, but also involves
the rolling-min vorksrs qualifications. For this reason, advanced vocational
courses are to-be given on rolling mills, electric-pwrer technology, and mat
terial.s. To further iwprove the Berk, the work methods are to be basically
changed to confdra to'Soviet methods, so that the plant's personal strength
sin be in the ratio 'of ears offie; .esployaee to ten production workers.. At present,
200 Ipprentiess are being trained. he plant's main product is reportedly
spring steel.
Burg RoUindt )gill., an Ilamdsbue8
At the end of ?.bruary 1951, a ww hot-rolling sill eta put into .operat on;
the parts for this sill were produced in the GTh. Thus, in addition to rolling
struetigal, steel plats, as it has been doing in the past, the plant will be in a
position to roll thin plate less than one will L or'thick, dyoaso *boot iron,
and tranafor-ssr sheet. T~a sheets will be further treated in a new production
ohm, 1,k00 square looters in miss.
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The third cupola furnace, which was put into operation at the beginning of
January 1951, has a capacity Of 6 tons per hour. About 300 workers are employed
Di-ee:den-Doelsschen Forge-Ramer Plant
Georg Schwarz Steel Plant, 0lbersdor
Haile Pump Worm Rolle Scale
A process for producing molding sand from slag has been developed which alm;
legedly will eliminate the necessity of building large crushers, and will thus
rather than large pieces, are obtained, and can be ground to dust in the ball
mills.
In this process, the slag, which is removed from the cupola furnace when
red-hot, is chilled with water and granulated, co that small. slag splinters,
After the Leipzig spri.ug fair, the Merseburg Metalworks uas ordered to be
the first plant in the OLR to produce aluminum foil, which constitutes a bottle-
neck in the ODs. Allegedly, the capacity of the plant is to be sufficient to
cover the renjuiramenta of all branches of industry. In addition to the electri-
cal industry. the food and beverage and the cisarette industries are to be sum-
plied with aluminum foil for packaging.
This plant, formerly one of the largest aluminum-producing p2.ante in Europe,
was completely dismantled by the Soviets. Reconstruction work, which has already
been started, is to be speeded nip, and the first phase of the large-scale recan-
struction project is scheduled for completion by fall 1951. Thus far, an alumi-
num end iron foundry has been constructed. The plant is being constructed by
order of the Main ?.iepartaont for Chemistry, X nistry of Heavy Indatz7. The
Laute Plant eaploysed 3,500 workers in 1938 and 6,000 workers during the war.
Products Exhibited at Leipzig Fair
At the Leipzig spring fair, the VVE GUS (Federation cf Pe?uple-Owned Enter-
prises for Cast %rA FLrged Product2) exhibited a group of new tyres of foundry
products, for ezsmgnle, equipment for the cement industry, wade of cast steel with
a high chromium content;thb outstanding characteristic of taib product reportedly
is its resistance to stress. Cast-iron parts are produced in the Doelsechen
Fo=dry, by a znev method vuieh uses cupola-alga; cement. Recently, slides for sip-
pers, which foraaer]y had to be pressed, were produced for the first time by a
simple die-casting process. In addition, cast pacts were exhibited which were
produced from iron or light metal instead of nonferrous metals. For ezampl*,
aluminum parts were displayed which had been produced by the Krupp casting method,
with considerable savings in nonferrous metals.
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F'urtherasore, the Y9vB GUS exhibited grooved rolls and large cast parts for
rolling Nill.s and other basic industrial eatazrprises, chilled rolls in three
grades of hardness; and cast-steel rolls produced by the snnigsdorf Steel-
Caating Plant. Ash the largo cast parts were a revolving grate for a gas
generator and a cyrlinder? liner for ship engines.
The Reidensuu Die arms. Pressure-Casting Pouudry in Sachsen, which belongs
to SAGO (Soviet Corporation) "Kobel," exhibited cast parts produced by the 'pree
sure-die-casting method for aluminum, magnesium, zinc, and brass alloys. These
cast parts reportedly excel in accuracy and uniformity. The pressure &te-
dasting method is economical only when at least 3,000 cast parts are to be pro-
duced, since it involves the use of pressure-din-casting molds of high-
grade alloy steel.
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