GUSTAV KLIMENT PIPE ROLLING MILLS, CHOMUTOV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002601070009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, 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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SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT Gustav Kliment Pipe Rolling Mills,
Chomutov
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 4 November 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT 50X1-HUM
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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le The Gustav Kliment Pipe Rolling Mills, Chomutov, are loonted on the'eastern
edge of Chomutov and oocoupy an area of approximately two square kilometers.
2. The factory produces a variety of steel and iron pipe from 15 to 600 mm.
in diameter, with both 'V'h1.,.Nk and thin wal.:V.s, but it concentrates chiefly
on the smaller sizes of from 15 to 40 mm. diameter with thick walls. Most
of the pipe of larger diameter is insulated or rust-protected, suggesting
that it is for drainage or pipeline use
3. The daily production of pipe amounts to from 15 to 20 railroad cardloads.
All finished products seem to be dispatched to the USSR, as the w-citing
on the railroad cars is in R'u lsiari. All raw material is received as ingots
(iron) or ore, by rail, also with markings in Russian on the cars.
4. Machinery in the factory includes all the well-known types, such as lathes,
pipe rolling mills,, stamping, straightening and profiling machines, etc.
Most of the machines are old. When new machinee,do arrive, the factory has
great difficulty in, finding skilled workers capable of operating them. It
frequently happens that valuable parts such as motorsor pumps are removed
for use with other machinery.
5. The manufacturing is done in five large hall's, each measuring 100 by 260
meters. Each shop is responsible for the'complete production of a particular
size of tube, and each is separately guarded and can be entered only with a
special pass. Workers in one shop cannot enter halls to which they are not
assigned. A number of members of the plant militia are in each shop..employed
as workmen, and they oannot be distinguished from the other workers, since
they also wear working olothen.
6. Inspection of finished products is done by. Soviet civilians who stamp the
goods when accepted. In the course of production, testing only takes place
sporadically, and the testing staff consists mainly of women. It is esti-
mated that the average of rejections is approximately 25%, bu.6 runs as high
as 40% in the case of small-profile pipe. This poor quality of products is
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caused by the acute shortage of qualified personnel and"the
poor maintenance
of the machinery. The maintenance and repair staff have to work nightarid
Sunday shifts in order just to keep the machinery in bare working order.
7. The total number of employees in the Chomutov factory is Approximately-
5,000; 40% of these are women and 15% of the total constitutes the admin-
istrative staff. Important officials of the plant are the following:
a.. Ladov (fnu), managing director.
b. Partek (fnu), deputy director.
c. Lederer (fnu) and Noveta or Novota (fnu), works engineers.
g. The managing director and his deputy appear to be political appointees,. while
Lederer, who is a Sudeten German, is a steel pipe expert. None of the senior
officials can be distinguished from'the workers, as they also wear working
overalls.
9. The plant has its on railroad sidings and'five or six locomotives are used
for switching inside the factory. The plant also has a small emergency ....
electric power plant of its own, but most of its requirements of water, gas,
and electric power are supplied from outside.
.10. On the northern edge of the factory, three large new shops are being built.
to be used as assembly halls.
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