ALBANIAN INDUSTRY EXPANDING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600400235-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 235
• Publication Date: July 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Albania
SUBJECT Economic ._ industrial expansion
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Berlin; Tirana
DATE
PUBLISHED 7 Feb, 11 Apr 1951
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LANGUAGE German; Albanian
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AL]MAN1AN ITJDU T'RY EXPANDING
46 MAJOR ENTERPRISES ADDED -_ Berlin, Nachrichten fuer Auseenhandel, 7 Feb 51
During the postwar period, 46 major and 13 minor industrial enterprises
were created in Albania. Furthermore, existing production facilities were
expanded within the framework of the investment program. Subeaquent production
increases between 1945 and 1950 amounted to 732 percentercentfor 177eper
cent for food products, 172 percent for leather, 359 p
318 percent for tobacco, 307 percent for electric power, and 312 percent for
lumber.
Among the industrial plants under construction and a group of textile
mills, scheduled to start production with 21,000 spindles the latter part of
.1951. The combined capacity of these factories is to be 20 million meters.
Projects now under construction include the Selite hydroelectric ilpower
plant near Tirana, a new cement plant, a ceramics factory, a paper , and
several neat-, fish-, and fruit-processing plants.
The Albanian mining industry is being expanded. Various mines are rn.
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ceivibg now gsupport of pureebiittSumen by During
117 peruset and of r petroleum and
crossed coal their by 400 and 557 percent, respectively.
Cultivation of sugar bests, cotton, sunflowers, and other agricultural
products for industrial processing has been increased considerably.
iNCMSAgE LZATM PRODUCTION -- Berlin, Nachrichten fuer Aussenhandel, 7 y'eb 51
Albania's hide and leather production for 1950 showed an inti!!'fa'sa' t' l9tlb1Y
14 percent as compared with 1949, and was A times that of 1938.
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BEGIN TEXTILE MACHINERY INSTALLATION Tirana, Bashkimi, 11 Apr 51
On 2 April 1.951., the work of installing the textile machinery sent by the
USSR began at the Stalin Textile Combine in Tirana. The equipment being in-
stalled is of modern design, much of it automatic.
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