ANODE GRINDING AND OTHER INNOVATIONS SPEED PRODUCTION

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• Publication Date: July 3, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Economic - Metals
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WHERE Katowice; Lodz
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DATE 16 Apr 1950'
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ANODE GRINDIL AND OTHER
IIiNOVATIONS SPEED PRODUCTION
Ludu, No 90, 31 Mar 50
INTRODUCE ANODE GRINDING AT PLANT A-52 -- Try'bona
The anode grinding method has been introduced at the Lighting Equipment
Manufacturing Plant A-52, formerly called "Borkowscy." The anode method not
only grinds. the hardest vidia tools but also cuts and shapes them.
A similar method has been installed recently at the Swierczewski plant.
scutting is also being used at A-52? Pindras and Hildebrandt
High speed tools which attain a speed of ?..,800
in diamete . Workers
worked out the cutting angles and designed
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with a
were afrais Corms thute e machinesoat thatespeed until eters Pindras himselfrdemonstrated
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that it was possible and safe. 2 workers in all divisions
At a mass meeting held 30 March at Plant A-5 ,
made May Day pledges.
The conveyor department promised to hasten the ins alb ti, wofctheanickel-
lanned. ieces
platSg bath by 1 May i.ustead of 30 May as p
time byi75 Pimmerses and ejects the p cent.
from scrap iron, has.a special'conveyor
being plated, reducing the Plating Many workers pledged increased production with the adoption of high speed
cutting methods.
Plant A-52 innovators Hildebrandt, Bogdan Sobolewski, and Pindras worked
out special heads for milling machines based un Soviet models; they cut working
time in half and give a smooth finish.
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MAY DAY PLEDGES POUR IN -- Trybuna Ludu, No 92, 2 Apr 50
As a May Day pledge the Ursus workers promised to produce 33 tractors over
the April plan.
The Jozef Stalin Metal-Processing Plant in Poznan pledged one locomotive,'
one passenger car, 30 tons of castings, 2 freight cars, 40 pulley grease boxes,
and 20 circular or disc saws over the plan by 1 May.
The Poznan Machine Shops, in addition to the plan, will produce 5 tons of
iron castings, and repair 2 machine tools, one overhead crane for the foundry,
10 steel safes, and other smaller items.
The crew of Energobudowa pledged to complete installation of Boiler No I
for the Nowa Electrical Power Plant by 1 May.
PLEDGE INCREASES -- Dziennik Zachodni, No 88, 29 Mar 50
The J. Stalin Metallurgical Plant n for Gliwice, one of the in Po-
land, made the following May Day pledges
The steel mill will produce 200 tons above the plan. The foundry will in-
crease its production by 10 percent. The Robertson rolling mill will produce
5. tons of sheet metal over the plan. The annealing plant pledged that it would
prof?uce 50 tons of iron bands above the plan. The general-purpose rolling mill
will increase its planned production by 50 tons.
The workshop pledged 50 tons of structural steel over the plan, and prom-
ised to build a traveling crane 3 weeks ahead of schedule, a vehicular, bridge
10 days ahead of schedule, and 'structural shapes 15 days ahead of schedule. The
assembly division pledged to shorten the production time on electric heating The foundry anby 10
parts for shop o hwill cplete er divisions a100days ahead ofrschedulesteel
machinemachine
deliver days.
The heat-treatment division will complete by 25 April, steam, water, and
acid installations, repair compressors and vertical pumps,
and assemble heater elements for electrical heat treatment equipment. The elec-
trical workshop will make compressor parts and repair transformers and motors
for the steel mill by 25 April. The construction division will accelerate the
masonry work on Children's Home and repair 300 linear meters of railroad tracks.
CASTING WILL REPLACE MACHINING -- Zycie Warszawy, No 104, 16 Apr 50
Machine parts can be easily produced from the hardest metals by the newly
developed method of casting. Such parts formerly had to be shaped either by
extrusion or costly machining.
A master pattern of steel or brass is used to make a precision mold of eas-
ily fusible metal. The mold is then filled by injecting a substance composed
mostly of beeswax by means of compressed air. The wax pattern is covered with
fireproof ceramic paste, then surrounded with the molding material and dried at
very high temperatures. During the drying process the wax melts and drains out.
The final product is cast by filling the ceramic mold with metal melted in an.
electric furnace.
At most, there is a variation of a few hundredths of a millimeter between
the finished product and the master pattern which, in many cases, is-an improve-
ment over machining and reduces metal s-aste.
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For instance, a milling machine which requires 2.4 kilograms of metal
by the machining process requires only 800 grams by the casting process. A
insta40nce
greater saving will be made in casting al with malliparts, and for
gears, which require 175 grams
casting.
NEW RECORD IN CUTTING STEEL -- Rzeczpospolita, No 97, 7 Apr 50
Operating a Czech-made Kovo lathe, a shock worker of the regional work-
shops of the Technical Farm Services in Koszalin set a new record in Poland
by cutting 1,120 meters of steel per minute.
NEW DEVICE FOR GRINDING SLIDE VALVES -- Trybuna Ludu, No 85, 26 Mar 5c
Ludwik Masiak presented to the Technical Efficiency Commission of the
Warsaw Gasworks an idea for using domestic raw materials to make grinding
wheels used in polishing slide valves for gas meters.
Tests indicated that the new grinding wheels are superior to those im-
ported from abroad.
CUTOUT SWITCHES FROM SCRAP -- Dziennik Lodzki, No 95, 5 Apr 50
In expanding the network of the Lodz Electric Power Plant, the Ruda
Pabianicka substation, which serves the southern industrial area, had to be
rebuilt and modernized. It was necessary to replace defective rotary cut-
out switches imported from Switzerland. Zygmunt Mendasik, an innovator at
the plant, designed and made the switches from scrap material.
They were installed and are giving .mach better service than the costly
foreign-made switches and will, no doubt, be adopted by the entire power in-
dustry in Poland. Previously, Poland had not manufactured these switches.
WORK COOPERATIVE IN LODZ -- Dziennik Lodzki, No 87, 28 Mar 50
Metalowiec, a metal worker's cooperative located at 8 Jakuba Street in
Lodz, now manufactures machine parts for textile machinery which were pre-
viously imported. Aside from the normal production from regularly supplied
raw materials, the cooperative uses scrap metal to make sheaths for elec-
trical cables or Holt guides for thread.
Household utensils such as wash tubs, bath tubs, wash basins, etc. are
arti-
also manufactured by this cooperative. Approximately 1,000
cles of varir?.ts kinds are produced daily. All workers at the cooperative
p-trticipate in work competition.
BUYS MODERN FIREFIu'HTING EQUIPMENT -- Trybuna Ludu, No 98, 8, 9, and 10 Apr 50
The General Mutual Insurance Institute recently purchased eight Bedford
chassis which are to be furnished with the necessary appurtenances and equip-
ment and assigned to the fire stations in the more heavily industrialized
centers.
Under the long-term plan, regional fire departments will be equipped with
modern equipment.
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