URAL, EASTERN STEEL PLANTS EXCEED PLANS, MEET ORDERS FOR POWER PROJECTS

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• Publication Date: December 12, 1950
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT' Economic - Iron and steel
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URAL, EASTERN STEEL PLANTS EXCEED PLANS,
.AST CnIA^eEi1v i vn ivi7~i PROrT"r~.Tp
LNumbers in parentheses refer to appended list of sources)
Reports of Ural. and eastern steel plants in October generally
stress gains made in exceeding norms, meeting plans, and fulfilling
orders for the new hydroelectric power projects. Some achievements
in technology were noted, but in one case, .progress has been hampered
by plant administration. ?
On 28 October, the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine completed t~e 10-month
plan for the entire metallurgical cycle. During these 10 months, the bombine has
saved more than 10 million rubles 'above the plan. (1)
The Novo-Tagil'skiy Metallurgical Plant, Sverdlovsk Oblast, is increasing
output of rolled products Por the Volga power projects. On 25 October, the
plant shipped eight more carloads of rails; girders, and beams to the Kuybyshev L
and Stalingrad power pro~e'cta.(2)
Blast-furnace xorkers of the Ni~hniy Tagil Metallurgical Plant have started
a competition among north Ural metallurgical workers to create'a reserve fund 5f
metal for meeting orders Por?th~ ttew power and irrigation projects. The: reserve
metal Pund will be built up from above-plan production.'
The .workers have also pledged in .October to achieve a coefficient of 0.:81
for capacity blast-furnace utilization, an index coasi$erably higher than thg one
attained in September. ,'Many brigades are a]seady exceeding this pledge, with one
brigade regularly obtaining a coefficient of'0.75?f3) ..
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The Verkh-Isetskiy Metallurgical Plant, one of the oldest in the Vrals, has
become a supplier 'of special stedls?for the electrical industry. The plant is '?
one of the?leadipg enterprises of the "Glavuralmet" (Main Administration of the
Ural Metallurgical Industry) system, contiaual],y meets its plans and accumulates
profits. However, there are tremendous reserves not being utilized at the plant:
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Throughout the year the open-hearth furnaces operate irregular]y'. In the
winter, recovery of steel is 5.57 tons per square meter of hearth. Consumption
of equivalent fuel per ton of steel is 280 kilograms. In the summer, on the
other hand, steel recovery is 7 tons per square meter of hearth and fuel con-
sumption decreases to 220 kilograms per ton of steel.
At the beginning of winter, the mazut storage tanks are empty. Mazut, de-
livered in tank cars during the winter, is preheated by live steam, giving it
a 10-percent moisture content. As a result, the furnaces must operate on wet
mazut. Every year, steelworkers raise this problem, but neither the plant di-
rectors nor 'Glavuralmet" have yet given a satisfactory answer, indicating that
these directors and the adminstration pay no heed to the leading workers on
proposals for improving production. Only two measures are necessary for the solu-
tion of this problem: accumulation of petroleum reserves .before winter and pro-
vision of dry steam to the furnaces in winter.
Another factor not taken into consideration by the directors is that in
rebuilding the open-hearth furnaces and increasing their tonnage, it is also
necessary to increase the smelting area. The roofs of the furnaces should have
been raised and the regenerator capacity increased. Since this was not done,
the furnaces have a very short run between repairs and require at least one ex-
cess cold repair. The open-hearths of the Verkh-Isetskiy Plant, with their low-
capacity regenerators, with stani 1.20 melts, while a similar furnace, such as at
the I,ys'va Plant, withstands 300 melts. Consideration of all these factors
would provide steelworkers with the possibility oP sharply decreasing the length
of the melt, increasing steel recovery at least by 20 percent, and decreasing
fuel consumption 15-2o percent.
The rolling and sheet shops of the plant also have great untapped reserves.
Metal, ingots, sheet bar, and sheet are heated in furnaces where Siberian coal
is burned in semigas combustion chambers. The furnaces do not have cast-iron or
steel-recuperators for preheating the air with waste gases, although this is a
common practice in other plants; as a result, these furnaces have an annual over-
consumption of 7,000-8,000 tons of Puel, which has to be imported into the region.
With the introduction of new technology, the plant should have reconsidered
the old standards for rolling metal. The plant is fully capable of rolling
sheet metal according to the minimum allowances permitted by the regulations.
Plant engineers for some time have held that a decrease oP 3 percent in the weight
of the sheet bar and the subsequent increase of 3 percent in sheet output would
make it possible for the plant to increase output considerably and increase
savings. The increased output, resulting from decreasing the trimmed edge oP the
sheet only oue percent, would still give the plant a saving of 1~ million rubles,
while of itself, Pine-gauge sheet for use in transformers and motors would be
more economical. This proposal has not, however, been upheld by the plant direc-
tors, headed by Radkevich. In fact, the management has expressed an entire],y
different view, that oP rolling heavy-gauge sheet, within the OST limits, since
the plant gets paid per ton of metal and not by the quantity of sheets. The plant
is thus hamperedia its Further progress by the self-complacency of its directors.(4)
In Molotov Oblast, the "650" mill at the dhusovoy Metallurgical Plant com-
pleted 2 weeks ahead of schedule an order Por sheet iron for the Kuybyshev power
project. (5 )
R. Averkiyev, design engineer, together with Engineer Svisttmov, developed
and put into operation in the open-hearth shop of the Izhevsk Metallurgical Plerit,
Udmurt ASSR, a combined brick checkerwork for the regenerators of the steel fur-
naces. This innovation provides several million rubles annually in savings, de-,
creases substantially the length oP the melt, and cuts fuel consumption CFO-45 per-
cent.(6)
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The Eeloretsk Steel Wire Plant, Bashkir ASSR, has Yeceived orders for a
large consignment of steel cable and wire rope for the Kubyshev GES project.
Part of this order will be produced from metal saved. The first lot of steel
cable has already been sent to the project.(7)
The rail shop of the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine imeni Stalin has received
and pilled as order to produce a consi~;nmPnt of girders for the Stalingrad GES
project. Other orders for the Volga polder projects are beginning to arrive at
the combine -- primarily orders for metal from plants producing equipment Por
the projecLS. The Kovrov Excavator Plant, Vladimir Ublast, recentljr asked the
combine to speed up its shipments oP metal which will be used in the production
of machines f.or the Volga projects This request has been complied with.(8)
The combine recent],y obtained an order Por a large consignment of sheet for the
Kuybyshev project and completed the order one dag ahead of schedule, Open-hearth
shops No 1 and 2 are accumulating a fund of metal smelted above plan Por the
Volga and Kakhovka power stations and the Main Turkmen Canal.(9)
The combine completed ahead of schedule the 9-month plan for the entire
metallurgical cycle. The highest coefficient for capacity utilization of blast
furnaces achieved in September was 0.82, as compared with the progressive norm
of 0,84.(10)
In the Kazakh SSR, the Metallurgical Plant in Temir-Tau completed the third-
quarter plan many days ahead of schedule.(11) The plant has exceeded the planned
capacity of its equipment. Tt has also exceeded the production level specified
in the Five-Year Plan and has almost completed the 1950 plan.(12)
On 20 October, the Al;tyvbinsk r'eri~oslloy Plant completed the postwar Five-
Year Plan. Average monthly smelting of Perrochrome has more than doubled in
comparison with the first year of the Five-Year Plan (1946). Sigh-grade types
of metal have been put into production and their output has increased 20 percent
over 1949?(13)
The plant's first smelting shop has adopted the new progressive norms which
were worked out at the conference of metallurgists of the Urals and the East
Smelters of furnace No 5 are smelting high-quality aemimanufactures, working in
close cooperation with associates of the Scientific Research Institute of Ferro-
alloys.(14)
Leading steelworkers at the Uzbek Metallurgical Plant are completing melts
in o hours 40 minutes, as compared with the norm oP 8 hours.(15)
1. Moscow, Izvestiya, 29 Oct 50
2. Leningradskaya Pravda, 28 Oct 50
3. Leningradskaya Pravda, 6 Oct 50
4. Moscow, Pravda, 11 Oct 50
5? Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 6 Oct 50
6. Moscow, Trud, 6 Oct 50
7. Moscow, Trud, 22 Oct 50
8 Moscow, Trud, 30 Sep 50
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9? Moscow, Izvestiys, 13 Oct 50
10. Moscow, Pravda, 10 Oct 50
11. Moscow, Pravda, 4 Oct 50
12. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 10 Oct 50
13. Moscow, Komsomol'sksya Pravda, 21 Oct 50
14. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 5 Oct 50
15. Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 1~+ Oc?t 50
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