INDUSTRY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600390496-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 496
• Publication Date: June 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Economic - Industry, construction, general
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
PUBLISHED
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DATE
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INFORMATION
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Mining has become one of the large branqhes of industry in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The republic produces 35 percent of all the coal mined in Yugo-
slavia today. New coal deposits have been discovered at TesIl.ic, Tesanj, Ugl-
jevik, Duvanjsko Polje, etc. The newly opened mines at Miljevina, Suhaca, and
Ugljevik are developing into modern mines and are doubling production each
year. Over 25 new pits have been opened in old mines. The iron-ore deposits
at Ljubija and Vares are considered inexhaustible. Ljubija is the seconk rich-
est mine in Europe. Bosnia-Herzegovina produces nine tenths of the total iron
ore mined in Yugoslavia.
The production and processing of nonmetals is a completely new branch of
industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Barite, gypsum, asbestos, quartz, and fire-
brick have been discovered since, the war. A moder$?gypsum factory has been
built F. Volar. Although Czech engineers obstinately insisted that Yugoslavia
did not have good raw materials .for the development of a dielectric-porcelain
industry, , atisfactoryi7 clay depposits have been discovered at Prijedor, T':aso-
vaca, Blazuo, Kobilja Glava, etc. he newly built Dielectric-Porcelain Factory
in Sarajevo Is now producing seven %ypes of high-voltage insulavors, ?Previously,
quartz, which is found at Buaovaca, had been found only in Africa. The quality
of Bosnian barite is among the best in the world. The barite deposits are large.
Two large coking plants are under construction at Lukavac near Tula, in
the.vicinity of the lignite mine *Kreka,.gmd at Zenica, which is~neat`the"
Kakanj and Breza.mihes, these two coking plants will produce about 600,1000 tons
of coke annually, which can also be used in foundries where the highest quality
coke is needed.
An 80-meter concrete dam on the Neretva fiver will create the 30-killmeter-
long Lake Jablanica. A system of hydroelectric power plants Jr, und4r conkruc-
tion on the'Neretra at Jablanica. These plants will produce two thirds as much
power as Dneprostroy.
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The largest metallurgical enterprise in Yugoslavia is under construction
at Zenica. A new steel plant with large Siemens-idartin furnaces, blast furnaces,
a large forge, a coking plant, a heavy rolling mill, etc., is being set up. In
addition to this plant, a completely new factory for agricultural equipment has
been built at Kreka, a factory for processing lumber at Sarajevo, a factory for
water pipes at Sarajevo, a steel forge at Banjaluka, a steal forge at Tuzla, etc.
The total value of products of the Bosnian metal industry has increased 565 per-
cent in recent years.
From 1947 to the end of 1950, i.ndustrial production in Bosnia and Herzegov-
ina increased 5z times. Production has increased not only in the most important
bra chee ofxindu?try but also, to a greater extent, in light industry and other
branches of.'production. Textile, leather, and shoe factories.have produced four
times as much as in 1946; the food industry has increased its production six
times,'and the building and metal industries three times.
A new and large sawmill, one of the most modern in the Balkans, has been
built at Donji Vakuf. New sawmills have been built in Foca, Bosanska Krupa, So-
koc, and Saniski Most. The existing sawmills in Zavidovici, Zivinice, Banja Luka,
Drvar, etc., have been enlarged considerably. The first factory to make pre-
fabricated wooden houses has been built in Zavidovici. A plywood factory is un-
dei. construction. A furniture factory and a new enterprise for the efficient
utilization of wood and its by-products, which will roduce items for general
consumption, are to be built. A series of new and modern carpentry shops have
been built. The greatest progress has been made in putting in operation the cel-
lulose factory near Prijedor in Bosanska Krajina., This is the largest cellulose
factory in the Balkans.
Over 450,000 meters of housing area were built during the second and third
years of the Five-Year Plan. Completely new housing developments for industrial
workers have been built in Litav, Bar.,vicl, Breza, Ljubija, Kakanj, Vares, Zenica,
Kreka, and Svrakine. This year, 700 mill_hn dinars are to be spent on housing,
or 17 percent more than in 1950.
Over 500 buildings with 272,000 square meters of living area were under con-
struction in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1950; 550 million dinars were to be spent on
these,. In addition, over 90 industrial projects were completed in the first half
of 1950,
The production of brick in Bosnia and Herzegovina is now 19 times greater
than in 1947; the produccion of tile is six times greater. This production has
been attained by the new factories built in Sockovac, Visoko, Busovaca, Capljina,
Prijedor, and Samac,
The Brcko-Banovici, Samac-Sarajevo, Stupari-Kladanj-Tuzla-Puracic, Bila-
Vrbica, and other railroads were built in Bosnia. and Herzegovina in the first 4
postwar years. This-is a total of 388 kilometers of new railroads. A standard-
gauge railroad line from Sarajevo to Kardeljevo is now under construction. This
line will be electrified in the future. Since the liberation, 19 industrial
railroads totaling 600 kilometers have been rebuilt; 345 kilometers of new indus-
trial railroads and 10 kilometers of cableways have been built during the same
period. The Doboj-Banjaluka line will be built this year,.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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