HIGH-SPEED WIRE DRAWING AT HUNGARIAN STEEL MILL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 287
• Publication Date: July 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Economic - Heavy industry, rolling mills,
wire production
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Budapest
DATE
PUBLISHED Dec 1951
LANGUAGE Hungarian
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The press has given publicity to the high-speed wire-drawing campaign
initiated at the Salgotarjan Steel Mill. The campaign began last September
under the direction of P?.shko, Soviet consulting engineer.
The SalgotarJan wire-drawing mill operates for decades with the low
drawing speed and higher speed was not used even with the new, modern machines.
Depending on the type of machine, the drawing speed was 50-190 meters per
minute, in contrast to a speed of 250-500 meters per minute widely current
in the USSR,
At the Salgotarjan Steel Mill the campaign overcame all difficulties.
The _`Ie age drawing Spend i.:creased from 80 to 133 meters and with the most
modern mac:iines even a speed of 250-300 meters per minute was attained. Per-
formance increase for the plant as a whole i" 30-40 percent, according to con-
servative estimates-
The first to join the campaign were the Matyas Rakosi Metalworking Plant
and the rolling mill of the Salgotarjan Steel Mill. Adoption of the more ad-
vanced Soviet high-speed wire-drawing method has become a great txchnical and
economic success; however, the main importance of the campaign became really
evident when it was realized that more cable, hot-rolled hoops, and billets
are needed for increcsed production in the wireworks. One month after the
beginning of the campaign, engineers, technicians, and workers in all Hungarian
rolling mills were tevoting their attention to the problem in an effort to
find ways and means for introducing high-speed drawing.
In the hot-rolling mills, high-speed drawing cannot be placed in effect
because the number of revolutions of the electric motors which supply the driv-
ing power is fixed and the auxiliary equipment of the mills is not suitable
for high-speed work. The problem of increasing output in the hot-rolling mills
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has to be solved differently. Statistics show that the percentage of production
time lost in the Hungarian rolling mills for various reasons is high. From 10
to 30 percent, and, in certain mills, as much as 45-50 percent, of the produc-
tive time is lost due to changing the rolls, making adjustments, various operat-
ing difficulties, and other reasons. It is, therefore, clear that the principal
object of the movement for increased production in the hot-rolling mills is the
reduction of stoppages during production. The nationwide conference of rolling-
mill workers held at Diosayor on 17 November recognized the solving of this
problem as a logical result of the high-speed drawing campaign which originated
at Salgotarjan.
At the conference Laszlo Komjathy, Deputy Minister of Metallurgy and Ma-
chine Production, and Pashko and Korobka, Soviet consulting engineers, outlined
a clear program for the high-speed rolling campaign. The conference adopted a
resolution by which it established the indexes for time utilization and hourly
production in 1952 for the total number of rolls in Hungary, as well as the
operating methods for realizing this program. According to the resolution,
loss of time must be reduced 3-10 percent and hourly production increased 2-6
percent. In terms of physical volume, realization of this program would make
available the equivalent of the output of an additional rolling mill.
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