CURRENT OPERATION OF THE CHUBOVOY METALLURGICAL PLANT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350682-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 682
• Publication Date: October 31, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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Economic - Iron and steel
Monthly pericdical
Moscow
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Stal'y Vol 'JII, No 12.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1947
DATE DIST. 3 ~ Oct 1950
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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.
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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
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