VISCOSE RAYON PLANT IN RUDNIK

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEILI-G-ENCE,
INFORMATION REPORT
AGENCY
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Viscose Rayon Plant in Rudnik
DATE OF INFO.
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The factory for production of viscose rayon in Rudnik P-heresienthaV east of
Vrchlabi ?3$1?1536a., in the Krkonose Mountains, was one of the oldest
Czechoslovak plants engaged in this type of production. The-plant was most
probably subordinate to Ceske hedvabi (Czech Silk), in Lovoasice 503lN?l1+0hV
flee CS-K-628 ,27.o as Ing? (fnu) Novak from the Lovosice plant used to go frequently
to Rudnik on official trips. The equipment of the Rudnik plant as a whole
was obsolete and therefore not satisfactory After 1945., the plant had serious
difficulties in getting a sufficient number of qualified workers, Ing. (fnu)
Repnak was th`e- plant managers
Since 1951 the plant has been under reconstruction. All the production
buildings were renovated and the plant was scheduled to be supplied with new
machinery, especially with new washing machines and with about 50 new centrifugal
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3o The plant was scheduled to produce solely viscose rayon yarn of about 1,206+.
denier for tire cords. Previpusly;Y, viscose rayon yarn for textiles had been
produced there. In the summer of 1952 the reconstruction was still going on,
and the plant was not yet producing. One new centrifugal spinning machine,
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The plant was in an oblong basin; enough clean and soft water-was
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available, which is of great importance for viscose rayon produc
.A great disadvantage of the plant was its distance of about 13 km.
from the nearest railroad, so that all material had ,to be trans-
ported 'on truck6 to' and from the plant. A. road which fgrmerly led
through the plant area was moved a short distance.
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