NEW CZECHOSLOVAK METALLURGICAL PLANTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 149
• Publication Date: May 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Economic - Metallurgical plants
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PUBLISHED Prague
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PUBLISHED 25, 30 Aug 1951
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NEW CZECHOSLOVAK METALLURGICAL PLANTS
TO BUILD METALLURGICAL COMBINE IN SLO7AKIA -- Prague, Tvorba, Vol ICX, No 35,
30 Aug 51
In February 1951, plans were approved by the Central Cosmittec of the
Communist-Party of Czechoslovakia for the new "HUKO" Combine, an industrial
complex in Kosice Kral of eastern Slovakia. These plans are now beginning
to take form. housing for the brigades of vorkerr is going up rapidly b7
the assembly-line system.
This combine will be the largest metallurgical com:,ine in central Europe.
It will produce a million tons of pig iron annually. The blast furnaces will
be better than any now in existence in Europe outside the USSR. One blast
furnace will be as high as church in Kosice, and will consume 150 carloads of
various materials daily.
Limestone alone will be hauled in quantities of several hundred carloads
daily. Special self-dumping cars, each with the capacity of five ordinary
freight cars, will be used. Whole trains of these modern cars will be dumped
in 30 minutes, without disconnecting the locomotive or the cars. A special
loading and unloading machine in the factory rail yard will move 1,000 tons
an hour.
A trainload of finished products will leave the plant every half hour.
The plant will have its own classification yard, track, and three separate
stations. The amount of track required within the plant itself is equal to
that from Kosice to Cesky Teain. New highways, trolley-bus service, and,
later, streetcar service are being planned.
The gas tank of the new combine will be higher than the steeple of Spiska
Nova Ves, now the highest in Slovakia X86 meter-87. The duct carrying away the
blast-furnace gas will be so large that it will be possible to drive an auto-
mobile through it. The plant will hmve 15 kilometers of pipelines of all
types and some 1,500 kilometers of cables.
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Besides lant$ the ch installation.~Theacnmbinenwill have tacown ainenance and ll serve
shop. Slag is now being used as a building material butm a plant will be built
which will produce enough slag brick and prefabricated construction material
to supply the entire kraj.
.$e new steel mill will be as large as those in the USSR. The steel
ingots poured here will be of various sires, some requiring a special freight
car to carry them. This car will be 21-35 meters long with 10-16 axles, and
will weigh approximately 125 tone empty-
The ingots will then move on to a blooming mill 10 meters high. The
operation of the blooming mill will be completely mechanized, and the mill
will be staffed by women only. Some 500 different profiles will be made here.
The rolling mill also will be completely mechanized. Its annual production
of rails alone will equal in length the die--ter of the earth.
In building this plant, full use will be made of Soviet knovledge and
experience, especially that gained in the construction of the new Klement
Gottwald Metallurgical Plant in Eunice near] Ostrava. Several foremen
who will be in charge of various sections of the installation at Kosice are
now or have been in Ostrava, acquiring experience in order to avoid the errors
WAS there. There is a continuing shortage of manpower.
The plane for the city to be built adjacent to the main project also are _
very elaborate. There will be a kindergarten, a nursery, club rooms, schools
from primary through college levels, and apprentice center, and a department
store larger than the Bile Labut in Prague. Plans are also in process for
rebuilding Kosice, from which workers will commute.
Present plans call for the completion of the entire project by the end
of 1953.
METALLURGICAL PLANT IN KUNCICE To PRODUCE ONLY STEEL -- Prague, Zemedelske
Noviny, 25 Aug 51
The new Klement Gottwald Metallurgical Plant in Kuncice near Ostrava
will produce nothing but steel, which will be manufactured into finished pro-
ducts at other plants. The location of the plant ZTn the Ostrava-Karvina coal-
mining regio] will reduce to a minimum the expense of ?,auling fuel. The
coke works at the new plant will produce first-class coke for the blast fur-
naces.
The first blast furnace will require 2-3 tons of iron ore, depending on
its
its iiconicon ent, 900-1,300 tons of coke, and 450-740 tn's of limestone, to
capacity of 1,000 tons of pig iron.
The new installation will have several blast furnaces. The supply of
ore, coke, limestone, and coal for the cooking plant will be completely
mechanized. Two rolling mills will be erecred. -- Lenka Haskova
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