PEACE AND WARTIME USE OF ALLOY SCRAP IN THE USSR

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1950
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL ~OfV.FIDENTIA~
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY
USSR
DATE OF
INFORMATION
1946
SUBJECT
HOW
Economic -Iron and steel
DATE DIST.
~ //OV 1950
PUBLISHED
WHERE
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Monthly periodical
Moscow
NO. OF PAGES
6
DATE
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Sep/Oct 191+6
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PEACE A11D WARTIME USE OF ALLOY SCRAP IN T1iE USSR
During the war., state norms for the use of certain alloy waste products
were adopted. For example, in +.he smelting of nickel steels, no less than
"t5 percent of nickel-bearing was*.e products had to be used; beginning in No-
vember 1944, this norm was increaseu to 40 percent for grades of steel con-
taining no more than 1.5 per. cent chromiurn. The actual norms for consumption
of nickel-bearing waste products in srne.lting nickel steel in the chief plants
or the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy were in many cases even higher than the
required 'norms, as table l shows.
Table 1. Con
per
sum
To
ption of Ni
n of Nickel
cke].?-Beari
Steels (k
ng Waste
ilograms)
Pr
oducts
Plant
~
l
"F,lektrostal'"
(400) *?
538
Zlatoust
(390) ~`
506
Ghelyabinsk
(380) '~
602
Plant imeri Serov
372
529
Magnitogorsk
183
375
Kuznetsk
362
317
Novo-Tagil'skiy ~
361
.396
* significance
Sta1',No 9/10, 1946.
parentheses not determined)
Great success 9n using nickel-bearing wastes was also achieved in almost
all large-scale steel-smelting plants of other ministries; in 1945, the consuir~-
tion of these wastes reached the mtiximum, constituting in some plants from 506
to 651 kilograms per ton of steel. Two large-scale plants alone used 340 and
400 kilograms of waste products per ton of nickel steel. In 1945, the utiliza-
tion of waste products saved thousands of tons of nickel. and hundreds?of tons
of molybdenum.
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To effect these results, the tdinistry of Ferrous Metallurgy adopted a
number of organl2ational and technical measures, primarily to control the
formation, grading, and use of the alloy wastes. Of positive significance
was the measure taken by Goeplan US5R and the b4inistry of Ferrous Metallurgy
to attach the major plant-suppliers of alloy wastes to the plan+.-consumers
of these wastes. The total annual. movement of allo}~ waste products is given
in Table 2.
Table 2.
Movement of A11oy Waste Products*
(1,000 tors)
Lump W?,stes
Cuttings
Inde:+ies
1944
1.94
1 ~4
1245-
Balance at beginning
of year
'55.6
169.3
50.0
35.9
Formation
1,019.3
1,018.3
144.8
134.4
Consumption
1,042.7
1,068.,1
575
108.9
Balance at. end of year
].69.3
168.7
35.9
22.1
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The data on procurement of alloy waste products by "Glawtorchermet" (Main
Administration of Secondf~ry Ferrous idetals), as given in Table 4, shows that,
despite a certain decrease in total steel smelting during wartime, the quantity
of alloy waste produr-ts not only did not decrease, but increased. substantially.
Table 4.
Procuremen*, of Alloy Waste Products by "Glawtorchermet"
Year
(1.,000 tons)
L'zmP
Cuttings
1936
49 5
22.2
1937
37.6
20.9
1938
40.5
30.0
19:39
40.2
43.2
1.940
84.5 ~
73.6
1941
112.8
93.3
1942
198.7
639
1943
219.4
89.6
191}!
228 , 6
78.7
1945
250.9
101.2
A comparison of plant records on the formation of alloy waste products with
records of "Glawtorchermet" on their shipment has helped to establish (,allowing
5-10 percent error) the degree of "marketability" of the alloy waste products in
different categories. It should be noted that the marketability ~f the cuttings
is considerably higher than that of lump scrap. Lump scrap of tool steel and
Iiadi'ield steel has the least marketability.
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Comparison of data for 1944-45 with data for 1940 has helped to determine
the change in the composition of marketable waste products in wartime.
Table 6o Comparison of Peacetime and Wartime Waste Products
Ciroups of
Wastes
Grades of
Steel
1940
24-27
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Nickel-bearing
structural
465
1, ;-7,
Tungsten and
10-12
other tool
0.6
Composition of Waste Products
(~O of Total)
L~ C~ut~tin~s Total
1 49 4-45 1~ 194+-45 1940- 1944-4
78.9 75.7 82.6 60.0 80.0
9.05 1.4 0.1 0.9 0.1
~s.o q.6 22.4 14.5 29.7 10.8
content 0.7 0.4 0.04 -- 0.4 0.3
Stainless and
others with
hi h nickel
0.35 0.06 0.6
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100
The proportion of waste products of chromium structural steels decreased,
with a corresponding increase in the proportion of nickel-bearing waste prod-
ucts. The proportion of tool steel waste decreased sharply. The shipment by
"Glawtorchermet" of alloy scrap increased in comparison with 1940 by three
times Por lump scrap and only 20 percent for cuttings. Shipment of scrap of
military origin (tank, weauon scrap) had a part in this, although the majority
of it was not considered ss alloy scrap by "Glawtorchermet."
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