ALUMINA PLANT AT ALMASFUZITO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005500540001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/11/13: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005500540001-4
CENTRAL $NTEWGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Alumina Plant at AlmA.sfitzitd
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United states within the mean-
ing of the 114pienago L-ws, Title 18, U.S.C. Seca. 793
and IN, the trrnsm$nen or revelation of which in
any manner to an unautborimed person is prohibited
by law.
DATE DISTR. 20 January 1955
NO. Of PAGES 3
REQIM11EAAENT NO. RD 25X1
NFKA NCEs
TW ?OUICI NALUATIoH$ IN THIS ANORI AN IEIINIfWE.
IN AMA" OF COWEW IS TINfATWE.
oft 0V W# NOW
1. The alumina plant of the Hungarian .Soviet Bauxite-Aluminum Enterprise (Maszobal)
in Alm sfuezit8 is situated approximately 9 km. east of KomArom, 1 km. west-
northwest of the.station in AlmAafuezitr, and between, the highway Budapest-?Vienn;.
and the Danube. Most of the plant was built between 1942 to 1944; in 1947 further
construction was started and the plant was completed in 1953.
2. Before 1944, the plant was a German,Hungarian enterprise; after 1945, it passed
into Hungarian-soviet ownership.
3. Railroad tracks lead from the Almaafuezit8 station to the plant. The pliant has
its own electric power station.
4. The plant consists of the following operations sections: Crushing plant; leachinc
plant; stirring apparatus and alumix.um hydrate filter; calcining section; dust
removal through electric filter section; lye dissolving section; chemical laboraa_~?
control section and gas generator section.
Ten to sixteen carloads of bauxiteaobtained from the surrounding area, are deliver,'
to the plant daily. The alumina produced is then packed in 50-kg.bags and shi >c
by rail to the Aluminum Plant in Tata.banya.
The head of the Maezobal enterprise to which the plants in Ajka and Mosonma;yardvtr
also belong,,., is ?''aynov (fnu). He.speaks only Russian and supposedly was formerly
a career soldier.
7. The plant employs approximately 500 persons, who work in three shifts. Their worT
is highly mechanized. it spring of 1953, Czech workers were used, to assemble the
boilers for the pohcr station and for the calcining station.
,The plant is guarded by two guards at the entrances and by watch patrols. Air -r'.
shelters are located on the west side of the plant,
(NOTE. WeableplM i *6vil" %aw Iw er, M ~ ~
ft-
SECRET
Approved For Release 2007/11/13: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005500540001-4
 Approved For Release 2007/11/13: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005500540001-4
SECRET
-2-
Legend to the attached sketch
1.
L-shaped office building:. 50 x 10 in. and 10 x 10 m.; two floors;
entrance for workers on first floor.
2.
Gu
dh
20
6'
ar
ouses
x
in.
3.
Chemical laboratory: 30 x 8 m., one-story building
4+
Garage: 20 x 10 in
.
.
5.
Temporary wooden barrack; 10 x 15 m.; carpenter
shop
6.
Temporary wooden barrack: 10 x 15 m.; sheet-met
al work shop
7.
Temporary wooden barrack: 10 x 15 m.; paint sho
p
8.
Lumberyard containing building material
9.
Sawmill. Will be demolished, together with a lu
of the building program.
mberyard, af
ter completion
10.
Warehouse and electric workshop: 15 x 6 m.; one
-story buildi
ng
11.
L-shaped building: 30 x 7 and 10 x 7 in. All bui
5 to 11 will be demolished and removed after com
ldings numb
pletion of t
ered from
he planti,
12.
Bauxite depot, building: 50 x 35 m.. Crushing p
to twelve ' crushing machinese
lant with a c
rane and eight
13.
Leaching plant, building: 50 x 35 in.
14.
Stirring apparatus and aluminum hydrate filter, b
uilding: 50.
x 35 m,
15.
Calcining section; building containing 6 rotary
Buildings 13, 14.,6nd 15 are connected by a commun
first floor. The' bridge between buildings 14 and
calciners, 50
ication brid
15 has a co
x 35 in.
ge on the
nveyor trolley.
16.
Dust-removal through electric filter section; 20
one-story building
x 6m., cont
ains six filters;
17.
Two temporary buildings: 10 x 5 m. '; one-story;
will be demo
lished
18.
Loading shed: 20 x 10z.., contains 6 - 8 stands
19.
Control section and metal foundry; 30 x 18 m.; on
e-story buil
ding
20.
Three wooden cooling towers, 18 in. high
21.
Water filter: 12 x 8 m.;'one-story building
22.
Gs .p generator section: 25 x 12 in., contains eight
building
generators;
one-story
23.
Coalyard: 100 x 50 in., has concrete walls' but no
roof
24..
Lye-dissolving section: 25 x 10 m. one-story building
25.
Electric power plant: 50 x 35 in., chimney 52 in. high; contains six,
BW boilers of 12 atmospheres absolute pressure and a chain grate and
2 steam turbines producing 12,000 kw. together.
26.
'Red mud, extending over an area of 10O X 50 m.
27.
Pier on the tube with a depot 10 x 10 m.
28.
Pumping station: 10 x 8 m.; one-story building
29.
Wire fence, 3 in. high, reinforced by concrete columns, encircles
the plant as far as the Danube, has'watch-Mowers every 200 in.
30.
Air-raid shelter: 15 x,8 m.
Annex: Alumina Plant at Alra&sfllzitd (2 pages)
Approved For Release 2007/11/13: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005500540001-4
 Approved For Release 2007/11/13: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005500540001-4
SECRET
Annex: Alumina plant at A1md8fttztt8
Approved For Release 2007/11/13: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005500540001-4