ECONOMIC - HEAVY INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250685-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 685
• Publication Date: September 26, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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The largest aluminum plant in Yugoelavia, and one of the largest in Europe,
is being constructed it Strniece in Slovenia. At present, installation work id
taking place. Some of the equipment was bltilt in Yugoslavia. The first e.iuminum
factory to be built under the Five-Year Plan, it is to form the basis of the
Yugorlav aluminum industry, It has a number of 'hollers, -aca wetghi.g 25 tons and
measuring 10 Iaetere in height, at the separation building, whits bed Urn uono.rete
foundatio^?>
The factory vill produce aluminum at very low cost because of the proximity
of raw materials and because its production is entirely mechanized. All equipment
will be run by electricity. The most powerful nigh-tension tranamievion line in
Yugoslavia has elready been installed to supply the factory with electricity.
Equipment installed in two rooms, each 100 meters long, will automatically trans-
form and measure the current, most of which will he used by the numerous electric
furnaces. Several large rooms, each over 450 Vetere long, have been erected to
house the furnaces.
MECHANIZED PRODUCTION STRESSED -- Burba, No 172, 21 Jul 49
Mills for orusbinb bauxite are found in `he bauxite warehouse, which has
several floors. The mills stand on massive foundations of concrete to prevent
the whale warehouse from shaking when the mills are at work. Tho crushed bauxite
will be collected in a large warehouse nest to the mills. A large shovel in the
center of this room will collect the bauxite and deposit 0 in a car. The bauxite
will he move mechanically from all sides of the room toward the center.
The rotary flrronoror installed on great concrete foundations among long rove
of concrete pillars, are huge pipes, 100 meter3 long and several meters in diameter,
which will rotate completely automatically. The furnaces will not be opened for
receiving the crushed bauxite or for removing it. The roasted bauxite will move
to the separation department through a corridor which resembles a bridge erected
between two structures. At the separation department the installation of equipment
is in progress. The boilers are installed on concrete pillars forming a circle
as on a huge tripod. A aeries of filters, small boilers, and other installations
can be seen behind the boilers.
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The workers, of whoa there will be relatively few, will merely watch the
instrument dials and various valve6
through innueerable apparatus until it becomes alumina, The alumina then will
pane through water-filtering equipment and email rotary furnaces where It will be
,omplete3y dried. It will finally come to the high-temperature electric ft-raaces,
abase which the finished aluminum in huge :ontalnere will be picked up by cranes.
The product will never be touched by head, A special machine will lift the car and
depOsIt the bauxite in the warehouse. there, the bauxite will be moved through
grinding achines, rotary furnaces, aru x.ing equipment. On its way to become
alumirum, the bauxite will be groon3 and burned, and will pass in the form. of fluid
LSee CIA Photo Accession No 43447
REPAIR 711-TAL TIOIN 'IL"RN9 10 MA-YJFACTTJR.LNG -- Borba, No 172, 21 Jul 49
After initial difficulties and experiments, the "Meba" factory began manu-
facturing thousands of distributor cape, and then several other automobile parts
which had formerly been Imported from abroad. From a factory producing buttons
and other similar small articles, the "Mobs" factory began converting Into a
large machine plant, manufacturing many important products.
'iThen a certain electrode factory faced difficulties and lose of time because
of a shortage of imported machines for grinding rhemical materials and machines
for cutting wire for electrodes, after considurabl.e cor.;.ultati.ons and experimenting
the "Meba" factory was able to build machines of better quality ar.d with a 15 per-
"ent higher grindtag speed thr>n machines Imported from abroad.
The ?Jesenice ironworks had Insufficient bakelite bearings for rolling iron.
They could not ba obtained abroad. Bronze bearings were used, Let had to be smeared
with lard when ender great beat. To nave great quet-Lities of fat, bearings of hard
wood were later made and the fat was replaced by water. However, hese hearings had
to be changed every 3 days and production interrupt6d. Research toward producing
bakelite bearings was done at the "Meba" plant, and production of tools vas begun.
On 17 October 1948, the rolling mills at Jesenice delivered the first bearings, which
lasted more than 4 months without changing; they are lubricated with water.
When the collective of the "Ventilator" entr?rpri.se desired to use metal scrap
to speed production of sogments for radiators, the "Meba" plant produced tools for
making radiator segments. Thereafter, the "Ventilator" factory no '-ngsr used
shat metal, bat hard scrap, for Lha manufacture of radiator segments, and pro-
duction doubled.
By manufacturing tools, the "Meba" factory made passible the standardization of
cook production at the "Metal" factory in Otocac, where production has been in-
creased by over 300 percent.
This year, all tools needed by the first Yugoslav camera factory are produces
at the "Meba" plant.
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last year, the construction of the first Yugoslav factory for manual and
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tools for they new factory was assigned to the "Meba" plant. The chief problem
in the pr duotionof tools and aachines was the manufacture of gear-cutting
machines. The greatest precision had to be attained in the manufacture of the
first machine. This precision was not fully attained, but experience for making
other machines was acquired. At present, the factory making saws for cutting iron
Production of lenses for held glasses, cameras, microscopes, and various
other inet..ruments, as well as op`9.^ai g' begin in Yugoslavia Machines
a~e will soon for tilts production do not have ?o be iui,orted from atroad because the "Mobs"
factory has begun producing them already. The first mac._:ne for the preci.aion
grinding of convex anti concave lenses has shown extraordinary results. As a result,
the "Meba" factory pi. ucea all machines and tools for the first Yugoslav optical
g1u s factory.
REPAl ; P.7,AiT To BE OPM10 -- Red, No 192, 13 Aug 49
The new "Trudbcnik",plant for the gvueral overhaul of tractors and motor
vehicles will be opened within a few days in Usora sea:; Dobn;j. It will be the
largest entaiprise of its kind in Busn.a It will have a modern foundry capable
of casting spare parts for trucks and tractors, The lathe ehr2 wi'.l alio produce
spare parts for farm machinery.
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