VEB R DEBEULER MASCHINENFABRIK (FORMERLY AUGUST KOEBIG U. CO)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004300130005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 11, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, Since 1946 the former` Augast Koebig & Co. plant in Radebeul, nationalized
Ps "VEB hadebeu-ler Maschinenfabrik in January 1953, has made deliveries of
specialized paper-manufacturing and processing equipment, including Metal
foil stamping, cutting and printing machines, viscose sheeting machines, and
machinery for the synthetic textile industry. These machines have been
Ielivered to Tekhnopromimport, Moscow, which is represented in Berli4 by a
branch office on Unter den Linden. .J/ Until sometime in 1953 the office was
.orated on Brunnenstrasse, but it has since been moved to tinter den Lin4len.
2. The orders placed by the Tekhnopromimport representatives were received by
th-c plant via the De-tsche W1ar avertriebsgesellschaft (DWV), an office
affiliated with the P2utschEr Inran-und Aussenhandel (DIA) , which handled
polygraphic maoni to orders. The Russians from Tekhropromimport made their
needs krowal to :IVY whi ., in tarn%submitted the requirement to the manufactu-r
ing plant. The manufacturing plant in turn prepared an estimate of costs,
)roductio a time. required, and estimated availability of the finished goods
.or shipment, which it turned over to the DWV. DWV in turn passes this
information on to ;.e Tekhnopromimport representatives. If and when the plant
bid is approved by the Tekhnopromimport people and a firm order is placed,
the order in turn is given to DWV, which transmits it to the manufacturing
plant for initiation of actual production. No direct negotiations are con-
ducted between the plant and the purchaser, who is ostensibly the Tekhro-
promimport Corporation, until such time as technical problems arise which
require discussion between the individual Russian and German technicians a_ndj
or questions of specification requirements with regard to final acceptance
of the machines. All commercial aspects are handled through the DWVO
34 Source could recollent the names of only two representatives of Tekhnoprom-
irnpcrt who visited the Koebig plant, one T?oshin (fnu), whose main interest
as in machines for tht refining of metal foils (Metailfolie Veredlungs-
nascr nen), and one 1 Mv1ov (fnu), who wt-1-:7 principally interested in
cutting and printing machines and cellophane manufacturing equipment
(Kunststoff/Perfol/Anle ,en) .
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The firm of Lugust Koebig was one of a very few plants specially equipped
to produce highly specialized equipment for the paper manufacturing, -on-
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manufacturing and synthetic textiles and plastics industries. A
lame number of-these machines have beendelivered to'both.-the Soviet Union and
to satellite areas since the end of the war, the bulk. of such shipments
having been made against reparations orders until the end of 1953. Durinr?
1953 the? following items,having a total value of about one million D?.E,v:ere
delivered to the Soviet Union on reparations account;
aG "Perfolanlage" Cost 70,000.00 DI.:E each machine
b. One metal foil installation Cost (including all equipment
for total plant installation)
350,0.00O0 DYE
For 1954 a-total production amounting to an estimated 205 million D1:E has
been planned. Of this total, 1.3 to 1.4 million DME worth of machinery is
destined for export shipment to the Soviet Unions 500,000 DYE worth, of
equipment is scheduled for shipment to Poland, and approximately 150,000 DP
is.destined for Czechoslovakia. The remaining productive capacity is planned
to cover domestic Last German reruiroments. No exports to `.:est Germany are
planned for 1954.
The following items for delivery in 1954 are on order for the Soviet Union:
a: 25 roll-cutting machines for metal foil -
(Rollenschneidoma.schinen fuer L etallefolie) cost each 10,000 D2?E
b. about 24 aniline printing machines --
(LGnilindruckmaschinen) cost each 30,000 DID;
c. 2 photopaper installations (photo-
papieranlagen) cost each :35,000 DJlE
6 Satellite states have orders placed for the following:
'oland - one complete series of machines for production of
Stiroflex foil - cost 500,000 DI:TE
Czechoslovakia - One machine for making engraved foil
(Praegefolie-herstellungsmaschine) - cost 50,000 DME
One installation for lacquering cellulose
foil (unlace fuer lackierung von Zellstoff-
folie) - cost 170,000 DAME
7. V,hereas the Te?:hnoprom?mport orders-for shipment of machinery to the Soviet
Union are handled via the D?;:V, the Polish orders come to the plant via the
DID`: organization. The Czechoslovak order was obtained by direct ner,v-tiation
in Czechoslovakia between a representative of the supplier pia,'rt'and Czecho-
slovak customer plants producing industrial papers and synthetic fibers.
These orders were handled through the KOVO Company in Pra,-ue,.
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