RECONSTRUCTION OF INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01035R000100040014-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 29, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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Yugoslavia
SUr3.JECT Reconstruction of industry
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MINE CENTER LIBRI~
DATE DISTR. 29 March .1.948
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Litos trod ,
1. Litostroj, a foundry and factory producing hydraulic engines of the largest and
most modern type in Yugoslavia, is located near I jubljana, and started operation
on 31 Aug 47. The-factory is contained in a 100-hectare area; its various
shops are connected by narrow and-wide gauge tracks and electric ears, -desv'y
cranes for lifting iron ore have been erected on the roofs of all the shops.
These cranes are of reinforced concrete in the shape of a gallows and are eapab:p.s
of lifting 70 T,:
2. In addition to its other products Litostroj is producing large turbines for'ayh,,.,yb
electric con rots n It is believed that under normal circumstances, in they a 1 i:t ,
of industrial sabotage, it could supply the total Yugoslav needs for these
Rollin Mill in Zenioa.
3. The old rolling mill in Zenica has also been expanded and modernized, In 1947 its
main function was (a) to roll unfinished tracks, (b) to roll line (c) to rot.:. shc^ ,;
cellophane QG for a time its most important task, and (d) to ro'41 fine beari.~-ig;<
Ivo.-Lola Ribar Factory
4r A most important event in the Yugoslav metal industry was construction of tho r V;w.>
Lola Ribar machine and tools factory in Zeleznik (Belgrade district)9 which li.;at
begun in April 1947. Although not entirely completed,, this factory was opened Cu
1Jan '
5? The factory contains machine tools, foundry, form casting rooms, converters, and electric transformer station, as well as an industrial school, cafeterias adinini..
strative building, repair shop and first aid station. In the vicinity has been
constructed a workers' co unity which doesn't meet even the basic needs of the.
workers. In the original plan 42 workers' buildings were onvieaged but only 2'? been constructed and they are not completely finished.
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6. Construction of the factory required 00 thousand working days, during whit`
Z5 hectares were leveled and a series of buildings raised. Materials used
were 24 thousand cubic maters of concrete, 180 thousand square meters of
wooden molds and 236 thousand kilograms of reinforcing rods. Twenty-five
youth brigades and 14 thousand men and women took part in the construction.::
There was a noticeable lack of skilled labor. T'he'workers were pushed 1$ hour;a
a day, were not fed enough, and worked under miserable hygienic conditions.
As a result, 1806% of the youth contracted tuberculosis,
7,~ Electric current for No-Lola Ribar is furnished from the Bela Voda electriz.
central on the outskirts of Belgrade.
Rade Konoar.vactory
8, The Kade Koncar factory in Zagreb has been expanded and put in running order
-- another success for 1947? The first induction furnace for making high
quality alloys was installed during 1947. The lick of graphite containers
has been a serious bottleneck? but since induction furnanes have been installed
the problem has been almost solved in the various foundaries, even if all the
needs are not fulfilled.
9.. The new furnace is the work of Milan Novak, Its mechanical parts are produced at
the Impol factory in Slovenska Bistrica, electrical parts at Rade Konoar, and
the frame at a foundry in Maribor.. Comparison of the induction furnace with the
Siemens type used heretofore shows the following:
(a) An annual saving of about three million dinars
(b) The induction furnace fuses alloys with 72% copper; the Siemens typo fusee
alloys with only 52% copper
(c). The induction furnace produces temperatures about 30% higher than the
(d)
(e)
Siemens
The new furnace's production is about 27% higher than that of the Siem:enN:
Heat loss in the induction furnace is .5%, compared with three to five per
cent in the Simmons furnace.
10. Furnaces for the fusing of aluminum and manganese alloys and hard steel are
projected.
Zitnjak Factory
11. Construction of a factory for hydraulic and steam boilers was started in
Zitnjak, near Zagreb,, but was not completed in 1947.
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