PLAN GIGANTIC METALLURGICAL PLANT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 826
• Publication Date: July 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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PLAN GIGANTIC METAIS.URGICAL PLANT
The combined annual production of Polish metallurgical plants during peak
years before 1939 was about 1,400,000 tons of steel. Poland was far behind
other western and central European countries in steel production. Czechoslo-
vakia produced 2, 300,000.tons of steel a year during the same period. Despite
this underdevelopment, the metallurgical industry in Poland was. often faced with
the problem of finding markets for its surplus. Therefore, with the exception
of the Stalowa Wola steel-refining plant and one blast furnace is the Kosciuszko
plant, the industry made no important investments during this period. During
the occupation, the industry was exploited by the Germans and there wsa no
thought of modernization or expansion.
To insure the realization of production plans and investment plans, the
Three-Year Plan provided for the rebuilding and expansion of Foliah metallurgy.
In the last year of the plan, the level of steel production was 60 percent
higher than the prewar level. However, iron metallurgy must develop further
to satisfy the growing economic needs of the country and to realize the indus-
trial development envisaged in the Six-Year Economic Plan for al]. branches of
the national economy.
Several hundred billion zlotys have been assigned in the Six-Year Plan
for investments to develop metallurgy in Poland. The proposed investment
funds are to be used to expand the existing metallurgical plants to the point
of doubling their production, to build the Nowa Huta, a new metallurgical plant
in the environs of Krakow, and to start prepardtions for a new plant, Nowa
Huts No 2, for the production of high-grade steel.
Noxa Huts No 1 will exceed total prewar production and, in basic products,
will be capable of producing as much as all the existing Po11sh metallurgical
plants combined. In construction and installations, it will be the most .modern
plant in the world. An urban development for a population of 100,000 is being
designed in connection. with the plant. It will be built on modern lines ac-
cording to an adequately planned urban program, and frill be the first large
and entirely new working-class city in Pound.
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The Nova Huta project requires a special planning bureau staYYed by
hundreds of well-trained and experienced engineers and economists. None oY
the Polish bureaus, separately or jointly, not even the Bibrohut which
numbers about 500 engineers and technicians, were in a position to under-
take a project of this size, especially since other projects envisaged
in the plan also had to be completed.
On 26 January 198, an agreement was reached between Poland and the
USSR which provided that the USSR supply Poland with industrial equipment
including basic .materials needed Yor the realization of the Six-Year P],an,
especially equipment for the NaWa Huts and complete engineering speclYica-
tions Yor its construction. The specifications which are being prepared by
the best Soviet technicians and a personnel oY many hundred workers, are
already well advanced. A committee oY experts will be appointed this
year to study the preliminary plans.
The Bureau of Workers' Settlements is in charge of preparing the plans
Yor the workers' town. A special workshop staffed by several hundred
architects, building engineers, and draftsmen has been established to plan
the residential buildings, public buildings, services, schools, hospitals,
transportation, etc. The basic plans have already been worked out and
are being studied by a committee of experts oY the S?ate Economic Planning
Commission.
The building of the Nowa Huta and the workers' city, the chief investment
project of the Six-Year Plan, will be started by the end of 1950 and completed
in 1957?
The actual work of building the industrial plants and the workers' city
will be done by Polish workers, technicians, and engineers. In building
'the gigantic Nowa Huta, the most advanced methods will be 'used, auxiliary
and service plants, including brickyards, quarries, prefabrication ~cmbines,
and firebrick plants, will be developed and a new revolutionary building tech-
nique adopted.
Many construction and assembly plants of the Ministries of Construction,
Heavy Industry, Transportation, Mining and Power, and the Betonstal and
Mostostal are cooperating in the preliminary work.
A new state enterprise, the Nowa Huta, was created to coordinate the
work of building. The ~uild.ing Committee under the direction of Vice-Premier
Hilary Minc, which was established last year by the Council of Ministers, is
the supreme authority over the entire project.
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