ECONOMIC - FOUNDRY EQUIPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250922-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 922
• Publication Date: October 6, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
SUBJECT
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
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Ljubljrna -- The Litoatroj factory is equippod with cranes which art able to
lift parts weighing 20 ions or more. A large new steal foundry In now being com-
pleted there.
:ie Litostroj factory ran produce the largest eatar turbines.
.Ue lraagb assembly roam is divided into tHz a pshrto mat has no supporting
rill.s:a. More are two large cupola furri+oes, esck able to produce 6 tons of iron
assembly eocti= has two large installati'n pits, also calle3 cellar okam
bers where turbines are assembled. The workers can resoh to turbt;:es through
special passages which are built on the aide. The room is l40a eaougb to ountain
two seven-story apartment hones. There aft two orenee, one'7lbove the other, which
can oar.ry material to dll sections of the room.
The processing eaption is both tm.a A 4ad'91ba" gioimd. The pert situated above
ground has a turret lathe for processing trbine,stators, s M hire for processing
heavy axles, and various other lathed and drills Next to them, there is an entire
series of semifinished turbines: four Pelt= tu~Disee for the Baroion power plant
(each blade can support a weight of 11 torsi), other turbines destined for l4ontene 'o
and Iltadedonia, Francis turbines for Zenifla etc. There are also parts of large Up-
lea to binea_ Nine e*tora far Kaplan turbine already have been cast.
The entire factors is Rill of undergrouna passage ihioh furnish water, steam,
electric power, and compressed air to the slabhiner7. Tba channels are so large
that One can ride through them on a bicycle. All the instillations are easily
accessible. Since povrr is obtained from below, a machine ea1t be installed in
any 2 square meters ef.ihere in the processing section.
The navy processing section is epeoially constructed sad o1 sicij of two large
rooms, both built in two parts. Sach room has two cranes flat ned to ceiling beams
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which are unsupported by pillars. This represents a load of 70 tone at one y"a
and was accomplished by the so-called suspended construction, which has been in-
stalled in the roof.
electric power plant near Vlasenica. Turbine blades, able to support a load of 43
kilograms per square milli-Ater and having minima expansibility, have been built
Vlasenlca.plant: two turbine regulators, two globe vlatas, end two intake pipes.
All this equipment was subjected topresaws:of30 etttospboree, while the greatest
presaure at, tb- plant is: only 16 ataosphes. The turbines will antes 300 rev*luti ?
TheLitoetroj factory Is to build 1,6O0 tons of hydraulic machinery by the and
of 19.51:.
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