KRASNIK METAL PRODUCTS FACTORY IN KRASNIK

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 14, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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information on plant equipment and production, as well as certain limited data
on other Polish bearings plants.
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The city is located 220 kilometers from WARSAW, and 1+5 kilometers
southwest of LUBLIN, with which it is linked by rail.
The city, completely new, is an outgrowth of the KFWM (Krasnik Metal
Products) Factory and has a population of 12,000 inhabitants. It has all
the conveniences of a modern city, such as stores, schools, hospital,
hotels, places of amusement, sport fields, etc. One heating plant serves
the whole city.
2 - KFWM Factory
The factory is located 2 kilometers from the inhabited sector in an
area of 300 hectares, of which it occupies only a small portion.
It has its own thermal electric power plant, which supplies the city
as well as the factory.
It consists of 12 or 14 separate buildings, each intended, when out-
fitted (there is much shifting going on now) to produce a single finished
product or to be used as a warehouse, office, etc. Completion is expected
by the end of 1961.
The personnel, all residing in the city, total 1+,000 persons. The
machinery is about 50 percent of Soviet manufacture, and the remainder
is mostly East German.
The factory produces ball bearings (80 percent), and roller bearings,
predominantly of the conical type.
Production in 1958 was 11,600,000 actual bearings; the 7B conversion
factor is estimated at from 0.8 to 0.9.
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Considering that there are about 300 annual working days (other than
Sundays there are 12-13 holidays when the factory does not close), about
4 bearings per man-day were produced in 1958.
Engineer Bilsbi, the general manager of the factory, attributes the
rather low production, other than to the inexperience of the workers, to
disorganized supply, particularly of raw material.
It is expected to increase production to 7,000,000 in 1959 and
11,200,000 in 1965, all ball bearings, of 500 different kinds.
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The manufacture of roller bearings will be centered at the new
factory in POZNAN, which in 1965 should produce 2,000,000 bearings.
There is another factory in WARSAW which, with a personnel of 640
persons, produces 500,000 bearings annually (2.6 per man-day). These
bearings are exclusively intended for the railroads.
A second factory is planned for WARSAW in 1962, and still another
later at a place yet to be determined.
The WARSAW Polytechnic Institute has a research center for bearings,
which will be assigned to the new factory.
3 - Forge
The forge is a new building, roomy, well lighted, and with permanently
installed equipment. It has a horizontal-type forging machines with
clearance ranging up to 4 inches, of German make, and two machines, one of
5 inches and the other of 7.5 inches (similar to the Ajax), of Soviet
make. The last two have given much trouble, particularly because of the
lubrication system.
It has several burnishing machines of Soviet and domestic make. Forgings
are usually well done. There is constant difficulty in keeping production
regular on account of irregularities in the supply of raw material.
4 - Lathe Shop
In premises partially occupied by machines for other types of
production. Gang of about 40 four-spindle automatic lathes manufactured
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by the WMW of LEIPZIG, mostly new, for processing bars; and about 10 old
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Pittler lathes similar to the WNW models.
They produce semifinished parts, the inner pieces requiring facing
and sizing, and the outer pieces requiring facing, sizing, and grooving.
Forgings are machined (rough-turned) on lathes of Soviet make
developed from the Fay model of Jones & Lamson, and turret lathes similar
to the Warner & Swasey, Finishing operations are performed on various
lathes, several engine,. turret, and semiautomatic.
5 - Grinding
Work is distributed over several places at this time.
Equipment consists of several grinding machines for facing (Diskus,
Giustina, and Soviet machines of the Blanchard Duplex type), and two
new Rowland machines with dual grinding wheels (one not yet in operation).
The last are equipped with pneumatic self-regulating devices.
Several centerless grinding machines, the majority of Soviet make,
including [model?] No. 4+. Gang of oscillating grinding machines of Soviet
make, similar to the old Van Normans, for grooving the outer and inner
rings.
Checking and grading arrangements are primitive, and the mounting
of rollers in the cage is done by hand. There is no noise control.
Grinding of the roller race of the outer rings is done on two 7002
EF machines, and on Soviet machines developed from the Heald 281.
Grinding of the roller race of the inner ring is done on simple
grinding machines similar to the [model] 10002 RGIF.
Lands on the inner rings are formed with a semiautomatic machine of
Soviet make equipped with a single grinding wheel.
Lands on the outer rings are formed with a WMW machine.
The six lapping machines for the roller race of inner rings are of
Soviet manufacture, The work is mounted on a mandrel on a horizontal
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axis., and the table is mounted on a slide rail placed on a horizontal
upper beam. The machines are defective., and only one of them was working.
6 - Tapered rollers
Two-stroke stamping presses of Soviet make,, not very fast machines tat
solid in appearance. They are equipped with clutches.
Grinding of diameter is.done on a centerless machine of Soviet make.,
smaller than [model?] No. 2 and with a cantilevered steel cylinder. The
grinding device of the cylinder is installed on each machine.
7 - Cages
There are several simple presses operating with dies of elementary
operation.
The work at this time is being done in the shop where the balls are
produced.
8 - General Services
A visit to the compressor room showed it is clean and well installed.
All compressors are Hungarian Mavag models, with vertical cylinder. On
the outside is a tower for cooling the water which circulates through the
compressors,
9 - Inspection
It is rather skimpy., and performed with elementary devices of the factory's
making.
The visual inspection of the rollers is done by a few workers seated
around a bench without any special equipment or illumination.
A similar arrangement was seen for the inspection of the unassembled
rings and assembled bearings.
10 - Assembly
Balls and rollers are mounted by hand without any special equipment.
Cleansing is done in small baskets immersed in basins of kerosene
and agitated by hand.
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11 - Testing roam
All the recently acquired machinery is installed in a special place,
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where it is being tested and the personnel? ill operate it are being
trained.
In a section of the same shop devoted to the manufacture of various
kinds of bearings, there were observed several Soviet centerless and
Messerschmidt grinders.
12 - Toolroom and maintenance
Installed in roomy premises, separate from each other.
The arrangement is good, and the equipment is fairly good also.
The machinery is of domestic make, or manufactured in Eastern countries,
particularly the USSR.
The toolroom has a space enclosed by glass, and two model SIP-Genevoise
punching machines. Several machines were being overhauled including
1+-spindle Pittler lathes.
In the toolroom were observed youngsters of about 10 years of age,
students of the lot trade course, who practice for a few hours every day.
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