POLISH COKING PLANTS AND FOUNDRIES (EXPANSION OF COKING FACILITIES AND FOUNDRY DESCRIPTION-COKING PLANTS PLANNED FOR EGYPT)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2010
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• Publication Date: February 10, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORO
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SUBJECT Polish Coking Plants and Foundries
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A report containing(a) limited information on the expansion and
renovation of certain Polish coking plants and (b) information
on Polish foundries including a sketch of the Bobrek Foundry
which is located between Zabrze (Hindenburg) and Bytom (Beuthen)
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Coking Plants
1. The Kokso?Projekt Bureau at Zabrze, located in a three-story
building at 302 Wolnosci Street, Warsaw, was responsible for the
planning of coke processing plants and installations. The staff
included 250 engineers, technicians, draughtsmen, and office personnel.
The bureau, under the immediate control of the Ministry of Foundries
(Ministerstwo Nutnictwa), is also responsible for expansion of existing
plants, designing new installations such as roasting ovens, mechanisms
for closing furnace doors, feeder devices, gas installations, coke
transporting trolleys, and coke-cooling tracks (?). The bureau
occasionally supervised the execution of the plans.
2. The bureau's plans for the establishment of coking plants
were usually based on the Becker (German) and Gibrokoks (Soviet)
types of coking ovens. These models resembled each other both in
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size and in quality and were composed of 214 to 48 chambers, each
chamber being approximately 10 x i x 3 (height) meters.
3. The following projects had been planned by the bureau
for early 1956:
a. Expansion and renovation of the Koksownia Walenty plant
located between Zabrze (N50-19 E18-47) and Nowy Bytom
(N50-17 E18-53). Three new coking batteries, composed
of 148 chambers each, were to be added,
b. Rehabilitation of the Koksownia Boleslaw Chrobry plant
at Walbrzych (N50-146 E16-17). The plans had been completed
and work had begun under the bureau's supervision.
c. Planning of an additional coking installation at the
Knurow (N50-13 E18-140) coking plant.
d. Expansion of the Koksownia Zabrze plant, located near
the Makoszow mine at Zabrze.
S. Renovation of the equipment at the Gliwice (N50-17
E18-140) coking plant, near thelocal coal mine.
f. A plan for a coking plant in Bulgaria was being worked
out, and a Bulgarian representative was permanently
attached to the bureau.
g. Negotiations were conducted on the establishment of a
coking plant in under the supervision of Polish
engineers. The Zabrze Planning Bureau was to have handled
the designs for the plant.
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Fo...:undri es
4. The Bobrek foundry, located between Zabrze and Bytom, was
a pre-war plant which had been expanded and rehabilitated by the Poles.
It was subordinate to the Central Directorate of Foundries at Katowice.
The foundry employed 6,000 persons working in three shifts to process
iron ore into steel ingots and structural steel.
5. The Bobrek foundry had the following equipment:
a. Three 30-meter high furnaces; an old machine to be dis-
mantled, and two others which had been renovated by the
Poles. Each of the furnaces could process 600-700
pubic meters of iron ore during a 24-hour period,
b. The steel plant had seven Martin furnaces, each with
a capacity of 60-80 tons and an output of 2-2k charges
per day. It was also equipped with casting molds, tools
for preparing the molds, hoisting machinery, and steel-
cleaning facilities.
c. The coking plant had two Bekcer ovens which were obsolete
and in need of overhaul.
d. The ore roasting plant (Anglomerownia) had 15 box-shaped
steel ovens (Piece Skrzyniowe).
e. The rolling mill (Walcownia) had a new slabbing
installation (Zgniatacz) of Soviet manufacture with
a pressure of up to 1,000 tons and a capability of
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drawing steel slabs up to a thickness of 24 mm., an
old machine for cutting steel ingots with a pressure
capacity of up to 1000 tons, and two rolling drawing
installations (Walcownia Ciagla) for railroad rails
and structural steel beams.
f. The ore-roasting plant kept a two-month stock of ore
on hand.
6. The Novy Bytom foundry, located in Nowy Bytom, was a primitive
Polish plant. Although larger in area and staff than the Bobrek foundry,
its production capacity was so inferior that the plant may have had
to close. The foundry had the following equipment:
a. Four furnaces, of $00-600 cu.m. capacity each.
b. A steel plant.
c. A coking plant.
d. An ore roasting plant.
e. A rolling mill (producing sheet steel for ships and
armored vehicles).
f. A plant for the manufacture of railroad truck wheels
and locomotive axles.
7. The Kosciuszko foundry in Chorzow which had a greater pro-
duction than the foundry at Bobrek, included the following equipment:
a. Three furnaces (two modernized, with a capacity of 800
cu.m. each).
b. Ten Martin furnaces in the steel casting divisicn.
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c. An ore roasting plant which has a conveyor-belt systemo
d. A plant for the manufacture of railroad trucks and
locomotive axles.
8. The Beldon foundry at Katowice, a pre-war plant which had
been renovated and expanded, processed special steels and operated
solely with electric casting furnaces. This enterprise was regarded
to a certain degree as an experimental plant in the field of special
steel production.
9. The Czestochowa (N50..48 E19-07) foundry was a smalls pre-war
plant having a single furnace. Two additional furnaces and other
installations were being built.
10. The Labedy foundry manufactures armor plates for armored
vehicles and was equipped with six Martin furnaces. It had no
blast furnaces.
11. The Szczecin foundry, a German pre-war plant which had been
renovated, included two furnaces, a steel casting and ore roasting
plant.
129 The Szopienice (Huts Metali Kolorowych) (N50-16 E19-07)
foundry manufactured non-ferrous metals. The equipment and installatio
of this pre-war Polish plant were obsolete.
13. The Zaklady Metalurgiczne (Metallurgical Plant) foundry
at Swidnice had two electric furnaces for non-ferrous metal casting.
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14. In early 1956, a lecture delivered at the Krakow Polytechni-
cum stated that the combined output of all Polish iron foundries
amounted to two million tons per annum.
15. Poland exported coke to the USSR, East German, Bulgaria,
16. Attached is a sketch and legend of the Bobrek foundry.
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A. Foundry area, about 1000 x 2000 m.
B. Coke dump
1. Main entrance to the plant.
2. Administration building (old).
3. Administration building (new).
4. Entrance to No. 2.
5. Entrance to No. 3.
6. Power station of theplant.
7. Coking plant of the foundry.
8. Toolmaking shop.
9. Three 30 in. high furnaces.
10. Steel casting plant.
11. Steel rolling mill.
U. Steel rolling mill and processing plant.
13. Secondary entrance.
Ili. Entrance to the ore roasting plant.
15. The ore roasting plant.
16. Road to Rokitnica.
17. Road to Bytom.
18. Road to Zabrze.
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