YUGOSLAVIA EXPANDS HEAVY INDUSTRY; BULGARIA RECEIVES SOVIET EQUIPMENT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700030182-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 182
• Publication Date: November 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia; Bulgaria
SUBJECT Economic - Heavy industry
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Yugoslavia; Bulgaria '
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PUBLISHED 1 Jul - 1 Aug 1951
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YUGOSLAVIA EXPAliJS HEAVY INDUSTRY;
BULGARIA RECEIVES SOVIET EQUIPMENT
"FRANC LESKOSE)e FACTORY BUILDS 150-TON CRANE -- Ljubljana, Slovenski Porocevelec
20 Jul 51
A 150-ton crane built, by the "Franc Leskosek" Factory for the Vuzenica
Hydroelectric Power Plant, is being tested. This is the largest crane ever
built in Yugoslavia. The whole crane installation weighs more than 280 tone.
The crane was designed by Franc Kovacec, prof.ssor in the advanced tech-
nical school in Ljubljana, and the parts were built by the "Litrostroj'l Factory.
The "Franc Leskosek" Factory is to build seven large cranes of varying
capacities for hydroelectric plants in Yugoslavia.
PRODUCE CLAY CRU:IBLES FOR CASTING PRECIOUS METALS -- Zagreb, Borba, 1 Jul 51
The.copper fo'mdry in Bor recently produced the first series of 60 clay
crucibles for casting precious metals. The first tests have shown that. these
crubibles are satisfactori7v resistant to high temperatures. Such crucibles
were previously imported; the Bor Foundry will henceforth be able to satisfy
its needs for this pr...'.uct.
Jovan Markovic and Dusan Nicic designed the special machtne needed for the
production of these: crucibles.
FOURTH NEW FURNACE PUT IN OPERATION IN IDRIJA REFINERY -- Zagreb, Borba
22 Jul 51
Ljubljana, 21 July -- The mercury refinery at the Idrija mine has put in
operation a fourth modern gas-operated furnace. The new gas furnaces, which use
ligni.tc, replace the former obsolete "Spirek"-type furnaces, which used large
quantities of wood.
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During 1951, work will be completed on adapting two large furnaces to burn
lignite instead of the coke which is now imported.
BUILD STEEL MILL IN SISAK -- Ljubljana, Slovenaki Porocevalec, 15 Jul 51
In June, work began on the construction of n new steel mill at the Sisak
Ironworks. The first steel ccnstructions have teen finished for the new mill,
which is to be almost as large as the Zenica Steel Mill.
The first furnaces will be in operation in 1912. The new mill will supply
steel to the. seamless-pipe rolling mill fin Sisak.
RECEIVE ROLLING MILL EQUIPMENT IN ZENICA -- Zagreb, Borba, 2 Jul 51
Zenica, 1 July -- The last equipment for the rolling mill in Zenica has
arrived at the buildinL; site, and preparations are being made for its assembly.
This rolling mill will have an output twice as large an any other rolling mill
.in Yugoslavia.
The mill is expected to be completed in 1952.
DELIIER MACHINERY FOR PLANTS -- Sofia, Otechestven Front, 1 Aug 51
Burgas, 31 July -- Recently, the Bulgarian freighter Khristo Smirnenski
arrived in. Burgas Harbor. The ship carried excavators, boilers, large bridge
ftraveli ;-?7 cranes, and other machinery from the USSR. These are being unloaded
and shipped to the "Stalin" Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant and the "Maritsa III"
Steam-Electric Power Plant in Dimitrovgrad.
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