MAGNESIUM AND ALUMINUM SMELTING WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300720004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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,=_a ter of the year in Bitterfelth A now large magnesium producing plant, with an
{nuei. capacity of only 5,000 tons of magnesium is scheduled to be erected the
irk i1'ord. prior to 1 January 19540 Owing to lack of equipment and unsati.sf _tory
:' r action of energy,, this plant will,, however, probably not be put into opo-0ration
`J-:fore tb- second quarter of 1954, Nor will the aluminum electrolysis plant -N4 II
n Bitter: eld, which was scheduled to start producing on 1 July 1953E be able- tc.
p:?oduce before 1 ter^ber 1953 because of lack of transformers., It therefc a seems
-,dbabla that 1.8-500 tons of. meta?_lurgical aluminum instead of 232,000 tons p:iannneu.
I' ','S3 will at best be produced by the and of the yearn
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_he following are reported to be the only smelting works for light m s;ais _n
fast Germany.
Ruettenwerk Rackncii.tz, near Leipzig, for magnesium (Mg) and aluminum (A:L).
953 plan quota. 750 tons of Mg.
:lektrochemisches Kombinat Bitterfeld, for Ific; and Al.
`.":j53 plan quota: )O) tons of Tom.
Berliner Sci melzverk, for Al.
--a itrerfel_d and the RRckwitz plants produced' magnesium from scrap. The HLell -<
2i e?hss Kombinat Bitterfeld was able to produce only i.00 tons of the 1.9 3 plan
q-- to ha remaining 500 tons were scheduled to be won by the new Mg prod uo Li en
:rich was not to be expected before mid-December 1953< the earliest date far the
pletion of the analysis plant
T7,e Bitter feld magnesium producing plant was projected for an annual output of
:x;0O0 tons of Mg and a. production expansion of 12.000 tons. In 195., the teal
'tout was scheduled to be not more than 2.. 500 tons a magnesia most of .?I cb
a:.le redly to be used for the re-arruiraent under the cover name of Fah.rzag-
0-,; ?& . vehicle building program)
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Pik Other reports cords the magnesium production of 100 tons,aer
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