EXPLOSIVES FACTORY AT NAGYTETENY

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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 7, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains' information affecting the National Defense of the United states within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Explosives Factory at Nagyteteny DATE DISTR.
7 SEP
1962
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e Banyagyutacsgyar (Mine Fuse Factory) is located at Nagyteteny, about 16 lan.
southwest of Budapest. It is under military control and is the most important
plant of its kind in Hungary. The labor force consists of about 400 civilians
of whom about 150 are women. The internal and external guard force. is made
up of military personnel,, The plant produces electrical, fuse and chemical
detonators for mines and percussion caps for light and medium cartridges; how-
ever, its main output consists of electrical detonators
2. The equipment of the plant?'s explosives manufacturing unit is of Hungarian de-
sign and is modern and excellent. Equipment for working metal parts, however,
is old and is scheduled to be replaced with more modern equipment including
equipment made in the West such as hydraulic presses.
3. Explosives used are tetracene and lead styphnate, usually mixed in a one to
one ratio. Often, however, the ratio is varied according to the climatic
conditions in which the product may be used, and the type of capsule (detonators
for mines or primer capsules). Total capacity of the plant is 12 kilograms of
tetracene and 24 kilograms of lead-styphnate for-each 8-hour shift. These
quantities are dry weights, It is not known if the entire production is used
in the plant or whether some is sent elsewhere.
4. The plant is equipped with four Hungarian designed and constructed installations
for drying the detonating mix (see attachments 1, 2 and 3). The mix is made
iii-'a humid state and then dried in these installations according to the process
explained in attachment 4. Each installation consists of a .'room where the con-
trol console is located and another room, which is air conditioned and has
armored walls, where.the mixing and drying equipment is located. The arrange-
ment 'insures 'maximum 'safety.
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The control box located in the anteroom consists of=
1 + 1 frame tilting moving mochaniams
1 + 1 knoc r moving mechanises
1 + 1 sifter moving aiechcnimaa
1 + 1 flask lifter . moving me chenieme
1+lcentral oil
pump part
+ 1 control cylindere
:.Alan In the anteroom are mounted:
1 + 1 Suction stub,
1 + 1 th?rmoventilator, built inteZral with the oalorifers
1 + 1 air conduits
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electrical equipments mounted in the control box
1 + 1 Sets of control wheels, time switching clocks, tenperature
regulating and recording instrument2
/The latter t cgethe r with a oslni ct ing line re to the thermometer/.
Mechanises in the drying oh emb er s r
1 + 1 drying frame stands
l+Iframetilters
l~ lsieves
1 + 1 two-.axed flask lifters.
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storage room on the drying fraass and then he puts the frmaee on
'the dr7ias frame stands beat ekion the drOing chanter. He alao
puts the hard rubber flacks meoeasasr for the dried aaterir -on
.1 1r flack lifters. This being done. be shuts ON imam doors goad
seta the time switching clocks located an the switch box is the
starter button mad the plant will attdad to the other 'work auto-
aatioall7 as follows $
1. It lifts the flasks to their place Pressing them up.
2. It starts the air fan and switches on the elictr ioal
calorifers heating the air.
3. It keeps the temperature of the air blown in an the sane level
by means of an automatic temperature regulator.
.4. At the end of the drying time it switches off the ealaoriferm
and cools the dried material b7 blowing in cold-sir.
5. After cocli..g the plant switches off the air fan.
6. B t i lt'ing it throws off from the tr a e s the dried and coote ,
material onto the sieve.
7. it knocks the frames that, no material should remain an them.
8. It performs sifting.
9. The sifted material drops into the hard rubber flasks +
10. It makes tLe roots dead and so reixier ; w rax:o into the
drying cli riaber possible.
after oompletion of sifting the plant releases the flasks
from their lifted and preseed-up position.
she further ~; of the operator is to 'trim; the material sifted
into the f l F,wks out from the drying chamber while observing the
prase ibed safety seasurea, to weigh it an the balance in the
aatereoo and tp take it into the starag, room.
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