PERSONNEL AND PRODUCTION AT VEB EISENHUETTENKOMBINAT WEST, CALBE-ANHALT

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September 14, 2001
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November 4, 1953
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA002700630002-1 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT 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 I. prohibited. .0 T 0L A.7 S Q' ICIALS ONLY SECURITY INFORMATION COUNTRY East Germany REPORT NO. 25X1A SUBJECT Personnel and Production at VIM DATE DISTR. 4 November 1953 25X1 A Eisenhuettenk;cnmbinx t West,. C a1 be NO. OF PAGES Anhalt REQUIREMENT NO. RD REFERENCES 25X1X 1. .The Eisenhuetten:kombinat West (mw), Calbe-An.halt* was constructed, as part of the 'f'ramework of the first Five-Year Plan Today, it stands in a central position in..pi.g iron production. The plant lies within the central part of the terminus, in the immediate vicinity of the railway station, It possesses extensive additional trackage, so that raw products can be hauled in and out with ease. 2."k Construction of a special ha ?bor for the Calbe-A ialt plant is already conteanplated This is expected to make it cheaper to move raw materials intox and. out aft the smelting works The labor force of the m.W is now about three thousand persons., Of these1 about forty percent are women. Young men constitute about twenty percent of the laborers,* or about 600, There are ~;bouk 120 young women. As of 17 Tune 1953, about two hundred of these lsborer~ 'belonged to the BED. C txructton work at the EK)T has now eached. the point where ten low shaft (Nieder achacMt) furnaces are in operation) and. ten more are 'hieing built, 5, The follavring sieta .:l.s .furnace NQ. 1, were forwarded. to the planning section: Productions 52,0 tons within r1A. h=rs Pig iron. analysis: 3385 percent C 1.,58 " Si 0362. ' Mn 0.5{ "?. P X48$ " S Top gas temperature insertions: 230 -to 300 degrees centigrade., 250 kg Badelebener ore Loss of beat: 8.56 percent SEC ?:Y`/CON`t'RQL .- !:.S. OFFICI, T.B 0 MY Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA002700630002-1 Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA002700630002-1 ' 25X1A S: .r/ao oL - U.S. O CiA 115 kg b tz ?henberger ore Loss of heat: 21.38 percent 105 kg Ruebeiaender ore Loss 6f ?at: 1+2,72 percent 195 kg nixed coke I ss of heat: 38.110 percent 50 brown coal coke Loss of heat: 76 31 percent, 13.8 percent H204 100 kg Zwi.ekauer coke Lose of beats 76.O' percentr 12.91 percent $29. 260 kg gas coke Loss of heat. 75.99 percentr 13.08 percent H20. Furnace mouths start: .a 350 wl.tbJ n 2k burs Furnace mouth analysis: C0 01+ 00 k12 OR H2 On average, 1.50 mn WES. 5 7 0.5 32.2 2..0. 0. 59.,a 0 Blast volume Average 21#*. 656 lam 3/1i Blast temperature: Boo to 600 degrees centigrade These tecbraical, data are as of 1.5 April 195:30 6* ~''he low shaft (Niedersc;back) furnace installation is supposed to be the only one in Europe, though, there may be 'sthing like it in Belgium, It works on the principle of the cxc,di nar?ry blast furnace, but has one advantage in that "sour" ores, with strrdrsg gr nui.a,t tca1 (and above ally German, ores) can be worked, .Hence, even in Caibe, ones from the BA..rz: l+ utatns are, used exclusively. According to the axlalysis in Paragraph 5 above, the proportion of brown coal coke,. 50 kilograms, is .very sma:1,1, This is due to the fact that the briquettes of brown coal coke do not, prodnoe the r cesaar.;y :high temperatures and &re too easily broken, The 1952 production quota for the U W was 60,000 tons. Later, this was raised to 70,000 tons? Actual, p.roductio y however was far behind expectations,, . and, the total, production for 1952 -turned outs to be 35,,000 tons of pig iron. The reason given far this was tbat several of the, ten furnaces now in operation. had not been completed on time. 9,.. Pig iron from the b .W is eventually to be delivered tp. East German manufacturing plants,which. include, among other. s, toe V WerkZeugmaechinenfabrik Union Gera. STET/a0 0L - U.S.OFPICIAIs ONLY Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA002700630002-1