SOVIET SCRAP-METAL DRIVE CONTINUES; MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD BADLY ORGANIZED

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600400603-7
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 603
• Publication Date: August 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION S-E_-C-R_-E_-T SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD PrO.
COUNTRY US5R DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
SUBJECT Economic -Metallurgical :Lndustryy
scrap-metal ccllectian
HOW DATE DIST. ~ pug 1951
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
DATE
DI Iaal Icucn , o nrr. _ ~ Mu? , ast
LANGUAGE Rvsaian REPORT N0.
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SOVIET SCRAP-METAL DRIVE C0hT2NU?ES;
MUSCOW AIGD LENlIv'GRAD BADLY CRGA)!Ty'LL'D
RECOMMEND BRIQULTTING OF Nlr'TAL? SHAVINGS -? Moscewy Trudy 20 Apr 51
Scrap-metal collectier, is progX~eacing. ^_'ransp^riaticn of scrap requires
an enormous number of ?rail.rcad carat' and, is this connection, the briquetting
of metal shavings has become increasingly Imr?crtant.
Before the wart USSh trachine-banding plants accumuleted up to one mil-
lion tons of metal shavings per yeas.. Accord?.ng to estimates of the Mi istry
of Ferrous Metallurgy, the sc?rRp meta:i. was shipped over an avere~e distance
oY 6;35 ki.lometera. Steel shavings had to be crushed before shipping, and this
process required much time and labor When shipped over ong distances, a
large amount of the sha.vinga were subjected to cr,?r?rosion and became uselees.
Soviet technicians have discovered a ne?sr method of briquetting metal
shavings by adding a binding substance to the metal. shavings before pressing
This method was tested by the "Kompressor" Plant in Moscow. The briquettes
consisted of the following mi..xture; 100 weight units of" shavings were com-
bined with 15-?0 un1:.s of gr~wid limestone and 1.2-1~5 units of cement. P':esa-
Sn~g was done by friction presses. The finished trignettes had a strength of
55-~ kilograms par square centimeter> One 100-tcn press can process 15000
tone of shavings per year
Ohe of the Moscow plants of "Glavvtormet" (Main Administration I~f Pro-
curements Processing, and Sale of Scrag Metal) is now making experiments in
briquette production. The maximum productivity of briquette machines at this
plant reached 250 kilograms of pig-iron shavings or 350 kilograms of steel
shavings per hour.' By operating two shiftst the yearly output would be 1,000 -
1,500 tons Plants which accumulate about 4,000 tons of metal in a year should
install presses with a capacity of 180 - 300 tons. Briquetting of metal shav-
ings should be organized at all machine-building planta~ in this way, addi-
tional hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap metal could be recovered each year.
- 1 - S~Y~6.
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CLAIM! MOSCOW r;IT~' Alai: '?BC,AST ffi^T ORl1.ANZ7.ED ~- M^?k:^.vsr_aya Fravda, 10 May 51
Th Mo-cov tsachine-L-ailding :.nd:l5try is art :.mg~osta4t c..,r_tributer of .petal.
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collection, processing, and.shi;:pir_g of mEta..,. Szn.e the eg~un~ng r
the plant shipped over 1.5,i;0O tons ^~f 4crap, .r a;..~~r.?st F,O00 toes mere than
taking an active part 1.u the col~ect:.or..:f scrap meta..., inciu. Ong
Bearings Flartt imenl. G, M- Xagarc:vi.ch, cme cf the i.eadi.ng e::te??pri.ses in the
b , o f? 1951
scrap for metallurgical enterprises A. at;mbar :~Y :nschira-building pi.ants are
~ 3' the First
plants a.re mreti.r.?p.' their o':,: gati~ eta i.n this respect
not a'll
mittees oY many citf rayons have not. t.rFa.n;.=ed the c~:llectiun c scrap
metal. vests. The situation .s r.reta? apter they have collected
t?tin
To ., a
the population the vital importance ?oY scrap-*netai cr?il.eotion for the national
~t=d ta" Many
Mosis.ovskaya Pravda, i~ Ai.? 5t
Giti'ea of Mos:ow~ t;bis::t have sta-te~i c:~?tsetit:un in, the ccllec'.tion,
processing, and shipping cp s.:rap mets!. :nduat?riFa:~_ entarpr'ises of the G>rty of
Elektwostai'~ pz;:mised t~ cosplete tP;e year plan :t~_~r scrap co:t.~ecti~n by 1 Decem-
ber and to deii.ver ';3;t~OC? tans o4 mety'i at^ve the ple.n? T~^~rkera of Kolomna City
Will c.~}ilect? 1,600 tone poi scrap above the p::.e:n. `ihe 'Lucemotive-Euildit_o Plant
iaeni Kuybyshev is the leaa.ing h:?s.:,Raaa enterT:r i.se in this o_rive
Fai.i_r'cad aysteu~s .>Y the Central. RsiS_