INDUSTRIAL REQUIREMENTS OF GRAPHITE AND CARBON ELECTRODES

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• Publication Date: July 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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industrial Requirtmients of
Graphite and Carbon Electrodes
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 784, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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The chemical industry, the melting industry,, and the machinery industry were
the only industries in Czechoslovakia which required. graphite electrodes for
production. These industries required the following quantities of graphite
electrodes for tht year 1953; these quantities had been, approximate3,y the same
for all the post-World War II years.
Chemical industry 275 tn.
Smelting industry lp022 the
Machinery industry 652.3 tn.
Total 1,,949,3 tn.
'Using these quantities of graphite electrodes., the smelting and machinery
industries could ran at full capacity. as they had been doing. The gUantit
of graphite electrodes for the chemical industry, however, would be sufficient
only for 80 to 90% of that industry's full capacity. (The c3h0;: OGxy'
has been running at 80 to 90% of full capacity ever since World War II because
of the shortage of electric power.;;
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Ehemicai industry
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United Chemical Works
in Usti nad Labem
60/110/500 mm. Electr
olysis 90 tr .
70,1r)-70 m-
chemical Works in
Sokolov /'5-011N-1238V
25/150/770 mm.
15 tn.
Soolana in Nerratovice
Zr- o16N-iit 1E7
60/175/77'0 mm.
LtO tn.
;'1.35/5>0 mm.
10 tn.
80./'300 T=.
5 tn.
vaky Chemical Works
in Novaky 4843N-183 E76o/110500 mm.
100 tn.
ti
~.. /5e~0 Mm.
5 tn.
The smelting industry used graphite electrodes
United Steel Works
(SONP) in Kladno
9,350 mm.
174 tn.
410 mm.
37 tn.
SONP Plant in
Chomutov j5027N-1326E7
0 100 mm.
8 tn.
V.M. Molotov Iron Works
in Trines , 941N-1839V,
Olomouc, and Brno-Sla ina ' 200.mm.
230mm.
Vitkovice Klement Gottwald
Iron Works in Vitkovice
A 49N-1816 and Bohumin
55N-1820_
200 mm.
0 230 mm.
1250mm.
0 46o mm.
22; tn.
7tn
75 tn.
61 tn.
88 tn.
274 tn.
After present stocks of graphite electrodes are exhausted, the United
Steel Works in Kladdno will use only-g 400imm. electrodes. the V.M.
Molotov Iron Works will use only 0 200 mm. and 0 250 mm. electrodes,
and the Vitkovice Klement Gottwald Iron Works will use only g 200 mm.,
5Q "rd 0 400 mm. electrodes.
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The machinery industry used graphite electrodes as follows:
Agrostroj Roudnice
Lj025N-1415
0 180 mm.
50 tn.
Precision Works (formerly
a department of Svit)
in Gottwaldov
f~ 200 mm.
20 tn.
100 mm.
5 tn.
Kralovo Pole Machinery
Plant, Gottwald Works,
in Brno and Klement
Gottwald First Brno
Machinery Plant in Brno
1:30 mm.
5 tn.
200 mm.
60 tn.
0' 2:30 mm.
25.5 tn.
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Plant
Transporta in Chrudim
L957N-15487
130 mm.
150 mm.
6 tn.
13 tn.
CKD Podbrezova in Podbrezova
Z4849N-1832E7 ~ 200 mm. 12 tn.
CKD Krivan in Krivan X49 C9,27 0 130 mm. 10.5 tn.
Tatra in Koprivnice 936N-1809 9 50 mm. 3.5 tn.
Foundry in Chabarovice
5041 T-1356 0 200 mm. 100 tn.
V.I. Lenin Works in Pilsen 75 mm. 2.3 tn.
0100 mm. 1 tn.
0120 mm. 5 tn.
0230 mm. 3 tn.
250 mm . 160 tn.
0 300 mm. 102 tn.
Janka Works in Radotin
L959N-l422E7 0 180 mm. 5 tn.
Automobile Works in Liberec 0 180 mm. 1:5 tn.
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Machinery Plant in Zdar
L934N-1557TH 200 mm. 50 tn.
After present stocks of graphite electrodes are exhausted, the
machinery industry will use only electrodes of 0 100, 200, 250, 300,
and 400 mm. (This does not take into account all the special
electrodes of small sizes.) Thus only electrodes of the same sizes
will be used in the smelting and the machinery industries. This will
result in simplifying and standardizing production.
The chemical industry and the ceramic industry were the only
industries in Czechoslovakia which required carbon electrodes for
production. These industries required the following quantities of
carbon electrodes for the year 1953; these quantities were approxi-
mately the same as for all the years since World War II.
Chemical
industry
3,040
tn.
Ceramic
industry
122
tn.
Total
3,162
tn.
Using.this-quantity of carbon electrodes, the ceramic industry could
run at full capacity, as it had been doing.
electrodes for the chemical industry would
The quantity of carbon
be sufficient only for
80 to 90% of. that industry's full capacity.
Lee paragraph 1 above
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The chemical industry planned to use carbon electrodes as follows:
Size of Electrodes
Purpose
Yearly Quan.
Chemical Works to Sokolov 450/500/2200 mm.
For carbide
1,350 tn..
L3011N-12387
and FeSi
roduction
p
.
450/500/2200 mm.
For FeCr
production.
350 tn.
130/1000 mm.
For tapping
off blast
furnaces.
25 tn.
130/1000 mm.
For calcium
cynamide
production.
17 tn.
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Chemical Works in
Handlova t 4844N-11846E/ 4,30/900/2200 mmm. For carbide 920 to.
ond F e S i
production.
0 mm. For tapping 10 tn.
off blast
furnaces
7. The ceramic industry pl. ai: nnnnec! -".-JO u &e carbon electrodes for production
of carborundum in the United Woks for Production of Carborundum
(Spojene zavody na vyrobu c i:rbo.ra.anda. a elektritu) in Dove Benatky
Z5017N-1450E7, as foiiows n
1.10/1455 mm. 18 tn.
`` ao,/`1800 mm. 24 tn.
500/2200 mm. LFO tn.
0 500/1500 mm. L0 tn.
$. Neither carbon electrodes nor graphite electrodes were produced in.
Czechoslovakia and no production of these items was planned in
Czechoslovakia for, the future, according to the economic and
commercial treaties between all the Communist countries. Most of
the electrodes needed in the Communist countries were supplied by the
USSR, Poland b and East Germany, the only Eastern block states which
produced electrodes until. the and of 1.952. A new factory for
production of graphite electrodes was set up in V. .i 8 uZ,,CL .. r
put in operation at the end of 195>2,
Poland produced electrodes in the former Siemens Plania factory in
Ratibor, and East Germany produced electrodes in the Siemens Plania
Works in Berlin-Lichtenberg. The Russian electrodes were of
outstanding quality and were second only to the Acheson products.
The quantity of electrodes produced in the Soviet orbit was fully
sufficient to meet any need in the Communist countries. Electrodes
of small sizes and electrodes for electrolysis were the only electrodes
not produced by the Communist countries and had to be imported from the
West, mainly from the CeCe-Uraphitwerke in Zurich.
9. Czechoslovakia planned to import for 1953 only 110 tn. of graphite
electrodes, 60 tn. from Area V (Switzerland) and 50 tn. from Area VII
(Dollar Area). ffhe import areas are catalogued in Am ,= No
imports of graphite electrodes from the USSR were planned for the year
1953. The USSR had previously delivered yearly 1000 tn. of graphite
electrodes for the Czechoslovak smelting and machinery industry.
Requirements of graphite electrodes in Czechoslovakia in 1953 will
probably be covered for the most part by stocks in the State._Reserve,
which were large enough to meet more than one year's need. The 110 tn.
of graphite electrodes to be impor=ted would most probably be
electrodes of small sizes of which there were no stocks in Czechos-
lovakia.
10. It was planned to import 2,900 tn. of carbon electrodes from Poland in
1953? The difference between the quantity needed by the.
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quantity to be imported would most, probably be covered by stocks on
hand. However, because there were no significant stocks of carbon
electrodes in Czechoslovakia, it is possible that these industries
would be obliged to reduce their production.
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For purposes of organizat1on an: f'or a,e of foreign currencies, Czechos-
lovakia divided the world Into seven ~. ,r%e.s according to currency. These
areas were:
Area II. Albania, Bulgaria, Eastern Germany, China.:., Korea, Mongolian
People's Republic, R,=.imani:, Hungary., Vietnam Republic
Area III. Austria
Area IV. Western Germany
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Area V. The rest 4 4 't-ope x i..n sl.ud ngo Belgium (Including Belgian
colonies)., Denmark (l.nclud Lng the Faroe Islands and Greenland),,
Finland, France (Including Algeria, Morocco, Indo China,
Tunisia, and all. other French territories and colonies),
Greece, Holland (including Indonesia), Iceland, Yugoslavia,
Norway (including Spitzbergen), Sweden, Switzerland (including
Lichtenstein),, Trieste, Turkey, and Italy (including the former
Italian colonies such as Eritrea, Cyrenaica, Libya,
Somaliland, and Tripoli). Portugal and Spain were also
included in this area:, however, there were no direct commercial
trade relations with these two countries, and trade with them
was handled through other countries, mostly on a barter basis.
Area VI. The pound sterling area, including: Great Britain and North
Ireland, Gibraltar, Cyprus, Malta, Southern Rhodesia, East
and Middle Africa, West Africa, Malaya and Singapore, Ceylon,
Jamaica, and all other British colonial possessions; India
and Pakistan, Australia and all her island possessions, New
Zealand, South African Union, Afghanistan, Abyssinia, Arabia,
Burma, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and the Irish
Free State
Area VII. The dollar ;area, including;; the United States, Alaska,
Hawaiian Islands, anti all other 'US territories and possessions,
Argentina,..Bolivia,, Brazil:, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Chile, Japan, Canada,
Newfoundland, Colombia, Cuba, Liberia, Mexico, Nicuaragua,
Panama, ..Paraguay, Peru, Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico,
El Salvador, Tangier, TTrriguay, and. Venezuela.
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