ECONOMIC - CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS INDUSTRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1014
• Publication Date: May 12, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic - Construction ae.teriala industry
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R 140HIMS AND PROCESSES INCBNASB BRICK AND CENT OUTPUT,
BUT KARELIAN AND ANM0LINSK PLANTS LACE Bffi7?
QUICK DRYING UPS BRICK OUTPUT -- bbskovekiy Bol'shevik, No 80, 6 Apr 49
During the first 3 months of 1949 workers of the likol'sk Brick Plant re-
leased 233,000 rubles of working capital and achieved above-plan accumulations
of 266,000 rubles by shortens:, the brink-drying process from 6 to 4 hours by
means of a change in the rate of heating. A combination fuel, introduced for
firing, out the time required for firing from 10 to 6 hours. The average daijy
output of bricks was raised from 66,000 to 104,000. The plant has reached the
1950 level cf production.
NEW DRY BRICK Pew DNVRL9PSJ -- Pravda Ukraiay, No 71, 26 Far 49
A rotary dry brick press has been developed by inventor A. A. Meliya. It
is capable of producing 7,200 bricks per hour, camgpared with the output of only
2,000 bricks per hour of the Oer n Spengler system and the American Boyd system.
The oapaoivy of the new Soviet maohine is 30 million bricks per year or 9
freight car Loads per shift. The press makep not only regular tricks, but alp
five-?sided, and perforated bricim, and solid and hollow oblique Blahs of various
sizes. It also can be adapted to the production of bricks with relief orna-
mentation.
CASPIAN cm w PLARr mTO mu FUFdiACE -- Za-ya Tostoka, No 64, 3 Apr 49
0i 1 April, vor~ers of the Caspian Cement Plan., Georgian SFIiI, l,ut into
operation a large new rotary furnace which will almost double the capacity of
the plant.
ZAGORSK PLANT ACRIVES S&TID08 -- Leningradekaya Pravda, No 71, 26 Mar 49
Workers of the Zagorek Insulation Materials Plant released one million
rubles of working capitsl during the first 2 months of 1949.
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PUDOZK BRICK PLANT WORJG AGAIN -- Leninekeys Zanys, Nc 58, 25 Mez 49
5 March 1949, after being closed for reconstruction. Sdhen navigation opens on
lake Ortega, various machinery will be brought in from Petrozavodek to mech&--its
the plant. The plant will produce up to 600,000 bricks per year.
NOME BRICK PLAN CONFIRM QUAD PLAN -- 9ovetakaya Beloruseiya, No 6e,
25 Mar 49
Workers of Minsk Brick Plant No 2 have completed the first-quarter plan
for finished production.
GIAE CONTAINER PIJ* T SAV3*8 14l.?CTRIC PWER -- Kommunist, No 78, 3 Apr 49
The Yerevan Glass Container Plant has begun a drive to conserve electric
power. During the least 10 days of March, one shift was able to gave 7,245
hlo tt hours. Laver consumption of electricity per ton of goods
has resulted in an increased output of glass containers.
KA :T,* CO OTIOM I .2M I ILs IMU081`RY I1pR0PB$ -- Lgninskoye Zxezya, No 26,
8 lob 49
V. S. Rozhenorekiy, Minister of the Construction Materials Industry Karelo
Finnish R, reports that the industry fulfilled the 1948 gross production plan
101.7 percent, with a 62-percent production increase over 1947. As of 1 January,
21,000 egnare meters of hosing area had been restored or newly built. The fol-
lowing of the 12 operating enterprises'of the industry did not fulfilled the 1948
plan: 3ulaahgorskiy, 8olomenskiy, and Letnereohenskiy brick plants, the house-
building plant, the timber management, the Priladozhskoye Mine Administration, and
the cement plant. There were many complaints, particularly about brick produced by
the Letnereohennki.y plant, and also about lime, standard houses, and pegmatite.
In 1949 the enterprises of the ministry must increase production output 23.3
percent over 1948, and must utilize the 5.8 million rubles allocated to capital
aonstruction within the industry.
AIOIOLIW CCYHl'ROQTI09f MATZRIAIS LAG -- Kazakhetanakaya Pravda. No 48, 9 Mar 49
Production of construction materials is seriously lagging in Akmolinek. out-
put of brick, cement, alabaster, and lime does not most the demmnde of enterprises
in the city, which has the Republic's chief agricultural machinery plant,
"Iraeakheel'maeh," a locomotive depot, a railroad car-repair plant, a railroad-tie-
impregnating plant, and Is the junction of the main liase of the Ieraganda anr'-
8talinek-Magnitogorsk Trunk Lines. The constructim materials plant authorized
in 1947 by the Ministry of Construction Materials Industry has been held up twice
by a shortage of bricks. The two brick plants in Almolinek, one eemimeobanized
and the other a home workshop, are operated inefficiently.
.equate supplies of ruch raw materials as gypeum, alabaster, lime, lime-
taao, marl, and white and colored clay are fount In the vicinity.
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