SVATY KRIZ ALUMINUM WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000300410008-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET/SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIR
DATE
ACQU I
Svaty Kriz Aluminum Works
DATE OF INFORMATIO
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THII DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFICTING THE NHTIOHfl ORPINIC
OF THE UNITID STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OP Ting II, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CONE, Al AMENDED. ITS TRANIMIIIION OR RIM.
LATION OP ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT ST AN UNAUTHORIZED PINION IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OP TNIE FORM IS ARCHISITED.
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DATE DISTR.A0 Oct 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. After the agreement between Satellite States to establish their own aluminum
industries, Czechoslovakia set 140 thousand annual tons of alumina and 40 thousand
tons of metal as its production goal, to begin late in 1954. The works is to be
located at Svaty Eris on the banks of the Hron River,
20 Czechoslovakia has no bauxite, so it will be necessary to import its entire
requirements from Hungary. The two governments entered into an agreement in 1951
which states that Hungary will export 300 thousand metric tons of bauxite to
Czechoslovakia every year, sufficient for about 140 thousand tons of alumina. The
Hungarian high-grade bauxite resources above 12-ratio are nearing exhaustion,
therefore, in this agreement the quality of the bauxite for Czechoslovakia is
standardized on a seven A1203/Si02ratio. Hungary will deliver most of this bauxite
from its new mine at Halimoa.
Hungary has not designed the alumina plant for the Czechs because it has not had
enough experience with the operation of the low-ratio type of bauxite. The
Hungarian bauxite-alumina industry has been operating on a higher ratio, and all
its plants were originally designed for a bauxite above twelve-ratio. The Czechs
have no aluminum experts, because they have not had an aluminum industry. The plans
of the Czech alumina plant therefore were to be made by Soviet experts and
construction was to begin in late 1952. It is said that the new plant will operate
with the "Pyrogen" method. This process is well-known in the literature but in the
opinion of Hungarian experts, the method is out-of-date.
Plans for the Czech reduction works were made by the Hungarians at their Institute
of Research, All the plans and the machine designs were delivered to the Czechs in
lat's 1951, Designs are exactly the same as at Inota in Hungary and the electrical
equipment will be identical, except that the Czech installation will have two 20
thousand-ton potlines. A structural difference between the two ii.thatthe Hungarian
works was 'built with prefabrloated concrete construction�whereas the Czechs, who do
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not have have the necessary training with
prefabricated reinforced concrete, will build their buildings of steel construction.
They have no critical shortage of steel as in Hungary and are skilled in its use.
5. As late as December 1951 the only progress made was in the preparation of the sits.
The Czechs began to work with enthusiasm using six bulldozers, about twelve earth
scraperss, and many trucks. The designs were made so that if necessary the
reduction worka could be expanded with an additional potline. The alumina plant
will be built on the same site. The transportation of bauxite will be by rail
from Hungary, and the Hungarian Government will build special forty-ton capacity
railroad cars for this purpose.
6. The reduction works will come into operation 18 months earlier than the alumina
plants, therefore, in the agreement there is a stipulation that for the first two years
operation of the Czech reduction works, Hungary will deliver alumina instead of
bauxite. Consent of the USSR to this agreement had to be obtained because alumina
diverted to the Czechs would diminish the Soviet supply from Hungary.
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7. Electric power will eventually be supplied from a thermal power station about 10 kp
down the Bron River from the aluminum works. Later it is presumed that hydroelectric
power will become available from the proposed Slovakian power program. In the mean-
time transmitted power will be obtained from the Moravian power plants not far from
Moravska Ostrava. This transmission line will be the first in the Satellite States
operating with 220 thousand volts. The same line will extend to Hungary to supply
current to the Hungarian power grid. A hazard to continuous supply of power is
expected because the route of the 220 thousand volt transmission line goes over the
Carpathian Mountains at least 1,200 meters above sea level and in a region where
frequent wind storms cause some damage to the cables. The reduction works is planned
to begin operation in the summer of 1954 and the alumina factory according to schedule
in late 1955.
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