EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMY MEASURES REGARDING FIREBRICK IN USSR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700120563-2
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 563
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTED
SECURITY w-b ION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1953
SUBJECT Economic - Metallurgical industr
f
y, re
ractory
brick
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
DATE DIST. 1 Aug 1953
WHERE
PUBLISHED Frunze
DATE
PUBLISHED 17 Apr 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
NO. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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Sovetskaya Kirgiziyyaa,
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMY MEASURp3 RgAIOING FIREBRICK IN USSR
The problem of the grey iron shop of the Agricultural Machine-Building
Plant imeni Frunze is to reduce the cost of refractory firebrick used in
repairing cupola furnaces. Since sand lacks essential properties necessary
for packing cupola furnaces, a substitute is needed.
It was decided to utilize waste refractory material for an experimental
smelting. It was impossible to test the quality of the composition of the
substituted waste refractory material because of lack of suitable equipment.
In order to reduce further the expense of preparation, it was decided not to
purify the material. After the experiment, the results of the smelting were
determined immediately. It was found that the composition used, because of
its fireproof quality, possessed the same properties as firebrick. It was
further learned that the drying of the cupola furnace with rammed lining, a
process usually requiring 20 to 24 hours, was not obligatory.
Subsequent smeltings yielded similar results. More rational utilization
of this substitute refractory material ,till result in saving the factory sev-
eral tens of thousands of rubles.
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