CURRENT OPERATION OF THE CHUBOVOY METALLURGICAL PLANT

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350682-6
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December 22, 2016
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August 23, 2011
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682
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October 31, 1950
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350682-6 > --~ CLASSIFICATION coNFmENTIAL Naas DISTRIBUTION 4'011~;~~~6~i [ CH~ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350682-6 COUNTRY SUBJECT HOW PUBLISHED VJHERE . PUBL'1SHED DATE PUBLISHED LANGUAGE .CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~' CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD N0. Economic - Iron and steel Monthly pericdical Moscow De., 191+7 Russian THIS OOCUY[NT CONTAIN! IN IO RY ATION A/I[CTING THt NATIONAL 0[fLNlL Of THE UNIT[0 STAT[1 WITHIN TN[ YLA NINO OI [l PIO NAGL ACT t0 V. S. C.. ]1 ANO ]L.AS AY[NR[0. IT! TRANSYISSIOX OR TN[ RtVt[ATION OI IT! CONi[N T! IN ANT YANN[R TO AN UNAUTNO RIt[0 P[RSON IS PRO NIBIT[0 BT LAW. R[PROOUOTION OL TNI! TORY I] RROHI BITL D. Stal'y Vol 'JII, No 12. DATE OF INFORMATION 1947 DATE DIST. 3 ~ Oct 1950 N0. OF PAGES 2 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION CURRENT 0?ERA?'ION OF THE CHUSOVOY METAI_._LURGICAL PLANT The Chusovoy Plants Molotov Oblast, has a special place in USSR metallurgy; it smelts Fiq iron from the titano-magnetites of the T]rais< This pig iron is con- verted in open-?hearth furnaces and Eessemer converters and the steel is then rolled into various profiles for the automobile industry, machine and railroad-car building, and for other needs of the national e;;onomy. The vanadi^am slag formed at the plant is reprocessed into ferrovanadium at the fr_rroslloy plant. The whole process hsa developed to such an extant that the .former ferroalloy shop is now an independent en- terprise< With 1840 t?s?kr_n as 100 percents the production of pig iron at the plant in 1946 was 295 perc~nty steel 281 percents vanadium slag 278 percent, and rolled prod- ucts 139 percents As the duplex process has developed, the plant has gradually become independent of outside imports of ingots amd stock. I^ 8 months of 19473 no ingots were imported and the proportion of imported stock was 19 percent of the total roiled metal because of increasing consumptions but in duly and A:~gust imports decreased to 16 percent. Soon the plant x111 not have to import any metal from outside, except for stock of certain electric steels. The plant is the first in the USSR to use the duplex process of smelting steel and in continually improving the technology of producing vanadium slag and steel from low-?alloy vanadium pig iron. During the war, the plant started production of sinter with the use of vanadium-?bearing chemical waste products of ferroalloy pro- duction. At first the considerable chromium content of these waste products did not permit production of a satisfactory sinter and its use in smelting was limited. At present, however, by selection of the proper charge, a sinter of the necessary quality is being obtained. The blast-furnace shop has doubled its consumption without decreas- ing the content oi? the main element in the pig iron. Complete operation of the sinter plant has resulted in utilization of all chemical waste products as well es of ell flue dusty and the formerly necessary consumption of coke fines in producing the sinter has been eliminated. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350682-6 The duplex-process shop has started production of silicon spring steel and other grades oP quality steels Production of the quality grades of steel has in- creased 60 percent as a result of a decrease of 10 percent in the smelting time oP common as well as quality grades of steeio kith production of steel and vanadium slag in the duplex-process shop in No- ver~bcr 1946 taken as 100 percents production in .August 1947 reached 210 percents Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350682-6