STEEL INDUSTRY TOPS FIVE-YEAR PLAN; SOME PLANTS BEHIND 1950 GOAL

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• Publication Date: January 22, 1951
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STEEL INDUSTRY TOPS FIVE-YEAR PLAN;
SOME PLANTS BEIIIND 1950 GOAL
umbers in parentheses refer to appended list of sources_7
In late November and early December, steel plants reported new
achievements in meeting plans and in setting records. The postwar
Five-Year Plan for the industry as a while has been exceeded; some
southern and central enterprises, however, are reported still be-
hind the 1950 schedule,
The Five-Year Plan provided that in 1950, production of ferrous metals
should have increased 35 percent over 1940. In l0 months of 1950, output of
ferrous metals exceeded the prewar level by 44 percent,'including 28 percent
for pig-iron smelting, 48 percent for steel, and 58 percent for rolled prod-
ucts. The setallurgical industry of the South.,has been entirely restored on
a new technological base and is producing more than in;,lprewar years, As early
as 1948, Ukrainian metallurgicte.had exceeded the prepay indeXes for utiliza-
tion of the capacity oP metallurgical machinery.(Y) ?
An editorial in Trud, however, points out that although there are many
enterprises which have already completed the 1950 year plan or are near com-
pleting it, there are still many plants and mines which Dee not meeting the
plan, According to the Main Administration of the Metallurgical Industry of
the South and Center, a considerable number of plants have not fulfilled the
plan for gross-production output.(2)
The "Krivbaasruda" Trust in the South is reported going very slowly in
introducing advanced work methods. At fault in thi? are Kudryashov, director
of the "Krivbassruda" Trust, and Shil'man, chief engineer of the trust, who
are not giving sufficient attention to improving the technical base of the
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trust. There should be an increase in the compressor installations' capacity
and the "Kommunist" Mine Equipment Plant in Krivoy Rog should produce: heavy
drill hammers and heavy-duty scraper winches. There has been much talk about
these measures and decisions made, but up to now nothing concrete has been
done. IQefedov, dirPrtc,r of the "Kommunist" Plant, and Lyapot, chief engineer,
have not provided miners with the necessary machine equipment. New and highly
productive methods of mining. .particularly block caving, used first at the Mine
imeni Dzerzhinskiy and the "Ba.l'shevik" Mine, are not being extensivEly adopted.
Adoption of this system would have considerable effect in increasing the ore
output in the Krivbass.(3)
Among enterprises completing the postwar Five-Year Plan is the Kramato.~k
Plant imeni Kuylyshev in the Donbass which on 31 November comp~heedlt~h~,slrolled
Year Plan for output of commercial rolled products. In 1950, p
metalworkers saved 1,600 rubles by cutting consumption of metal and materials.(4)
The Kazakh Metallurgical Ylant, Temir-Tau, has also completed the Five-Year
Plan ahead of schedule. The plant, in addition, has completed the 1950 plan
for steel srnelti.ng. Among products which the plant has produced above plan in
1950 are medium-section rolled metal, fine-gauge steel sheet, a.nd roofing iron>(5)
The plant's rolling mill workers have also completed the 1950 plan.(6)
On 25 November, the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine imeni Stalin, Chelya-?
binsk Oblast, completed the 11-month plan, saving more than 7 million rubles in
the 11-month peri.od.(7)
The Magnitnaya Cora Iron Mine, Magnitogorsk, has fulfilled the 1950 plan
for mining and processing ore. In 10 months of 1950 the mine has saved more than
3 million rubles above plan.(8)
The Kirovograd rprobably Kirovgra~ Hard Alloys Plant in Sverdlovsk Oblast
fulfilled the 1950 plan, decreased production costs, and saved more than one mil-
lion rublea.(9)
On 30 November, the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine imeni Stalin in Kemerovo
Oblast completed the 11-month plan for the entire production cycle and e.lso con-
siderably exceeded the November plan. Tn 10 months, the combine has obtained
15,600,000 rubles in above-plan savings by decreasing production costs.(10)
In Stalino Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, the Yenakiyevo Plant has successfully com-
pleted the November plan for the entire metallurgical cycle. In comparison with
the same period of 1949, the plant has greatly increased production of steel and
rolled products. The Bessemer shops produced many thousand tons of rail steel
above plan in November.(11)
The plant's blast-.furnace shop has been awarded the title of best blast-
furnace shop in Stalino Oblast. Leading furnace operators a~?e getting an aver-
age coefficient of 0.67 for capacity furnace utilization, as compared with the
norm of 0.09.(4)
At the conference of southern and central metallurgists in Stalino last
spring, blast-furnace workers at the Plant imeni Dze::zhinekiy, Dneprodzerzhi.ns~-
pledged to achieve a coefficient of 0.83 for capacity utilization of the blast
furnace. This pledge has been met. The shop continually exceeds the produc-
tion program.
The plant's steelworkers are also setting records. A leading steelworker
in open-hearth shop No 2 (shop chief, Zakhar Yeremeyevich Korchenko) this year
has achieved a production of as high as 13 tons of steel per square meter of
hearth, as compared with the mean progressive norm of 7.2 tons. The shop's
workers as a whole, although they had pledged to attain the norm of 7.2 tons
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of steel per square meter of hearth, actually achieved 7.51 tons for Novem-
ber. The plants' open-hearth shop No 1 has completed the 1950 year plan for
steel smelting. The shop has achieved for the year an average production of
5.48 tone of steel per square meter of hearth, as compared with the planned
5.05 tons.(12)
In early December, steelworkers in open-hearth shop No 1 of the Plant
imeni Petrovskiy, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, have increased the average steel
recovery per square meter of furnace hearth to 8 tone. One additional fur-
nace in the shop underwent capital repair during this period and was com-
pletely mechanized. All furnaces in shop No 1 are now equipped with auto-
matic controls and chromomagnesite roofs.(13)
In the open-hearth shop of the 2etallurgical Plant imeni Lenin, Dneprope-
trovsk, the progressive norm for recovery of steel per square meter of hearth
has been increased by almost lz tons.(14)
A leading steelworker in the "Krasnyy metallurg" Plant in Liyepaya, Lat-
vian SSR, recently set a record by completing a melt in 4 hours 50 minutes as
compared with the scheduled 8 hours. During this period, the furnace was op-
erated for 374 melts between cold repairs as compared with the norm of 200
melts.(15)
A steelworker at the Izhevsk Metallurgical Plant, Admurt ASSR, completed
a heavy-weight melt in 5 hours, ns compared with the norm of 8 hours, and pro-
duction of steel per square meter of furnace hearth was over 12 tons, or al-
most three times the norm.(16)
At the Kirov Plant in Leningrad, a steelworker gradually cut the length
of the melt from 12 to 9 hours, teen to 8.5, and finally to 8 hours. At the
same time, he has been able to increase the length of operation of the furnace
between repairs to 300 melts, as compared with the new norm of 240 melts adopted
at the plant, and has further indicated the possibility of achieving 400 melts,
or 6 months of furnace operation between repairs to the furnace roof.(17) The
plant's open-hearth shop is currently smelting steel which will be delivered to
other Leningrad plants to meet orders for the Kuybyshev and Stalingrad power
pro,jects.(18)
The pipe-rolling shop of the Dnepropetrovsk Plant imeni Karl Libknekht
has completed the last tons on an order for well casing for the Volga power
projects, completing the order in 20 days instead of the planned 60 days.(19)
The Verkh-Isetskiy Metallurgical Plant has shipped hundreds of tons of
metal for the Volga power pro,jects.(20)
1. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 25 Nov 50
2. Moscow, Trud, 3 Dec 50
3. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 2 Dec 50
4. Leningradskaya Pravda, 2 Dec 50
5. Moscow, Krasnaya Zvezda, 23 Nov 50
6. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 24 Nov 50
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7. Moscow, Krasnaya Zvezda, 29 Nov 50
g, Pravda. 28 Nov 50
9, Krasnaya Zvezda, 1 Dec 50
10, " Trud, 1 Dec 50
11. " Kreanaya Zvezda, 5 Dec 50
12. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 7 Dec 50~
lg, Moscow, Trud, 5 Dec 50
14. Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znamya, 2 Dec 50
15. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 1 Dec 50
16. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 3 Dec 50
l7, Moscow, Pravda, 4 Dec 50
18. Frunze, Sovetskaya Ki,rgiziya, 21 Nov 50
19? Moscow, Pravda, 27 Nov 50
20. " 2 Dec 50
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