IMPREGNATED WOOD FACTORIES PRODUCING SLEEPERS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001500860016-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 10, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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Impregnated *,oood Factories Producing
Sleepers in Czechoslovakia
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The following impregnated wood factories in Czechoslovakia are pro-
ducing sleepers:
a. Bohemia and Moravia
la Rohatec (P49/697),
between Breolav and
Prerov, Moravia
2. Rosice (051/!97),
near Pardubice on
the Elbe, Bohemia
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Srni (Rehdbrfl,
05%86), near
Ceska Lipa
(BBhmisch Leipa),
northern Bohemia
4o Brodek (P50/N94),
between Olomouc
and Prerov,
Moravia
Ceskomoravske Zavody na
Impregnovani Dreva (Czech-
"oravian '. food-Impregnating
.orks), a,s, Brno, Husova
7a, formerly Guido
Rftgers, Vienna
Ceskomoravske Zavody na
Impregnovani Dreva a.s
(see above!
Ceskomoravske 7avody na
Impregnovani Dreva a.s.
(see above)
Brodek Impregnating and
Chemical Works Central
Office Praha 11 Riegrovo
nabr. 34.,
CLASSIFICATION SECRTT C(`A'T? Lr-!T _ S_ !T 7TrTAT.S (`A*TY
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Double boiler
operation in modern
factory
Double boiler
operation
Double boiler
operation, modernized
during the war
Double boiler
operation for
impregnation and
manufacture of
chemicals . Mood
impregnation,
manufacture of
varnish, paint,
grease, and rubber
goods
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50 Bystrice pod
Hostynem, between
Ostrafa and Kojetin,
Moravia
Impregna Holzimprlgnierr
werke A.G
Double boiler
operatior., sawmill,
box manufacture,
"odern factory
6. Sobeslav, between
Ceske Budejovice
and Tabor, Bohemia
Julius Rutgers, Morava
Ostrava, Moravia
Double boiler
operation
7, Strakonice, between
Plzen and Ceske
Budejovice,
Bohemia
B8hmerw[lder Polz-
ImprAgnierwerke AOC.,
Strakonice
Double boiler
operation
SBreznice, between
Prague and Pisek,
Bohemia
Sublima A.G. fir
Holzimprdgnierung
Double boiler
operation
9, Zilina
Julius RLttgers,
Ostrava
Double boiler
operation, modern
factory
10, Krasna nad
Hernodom (Opatska),
near Kosice
Ceskomoravske 'avody,
Brno, formerly Guido
Rutgers, Vienna
Double boiler
operation
11, 6dlka Nova (?) near
Banska Bystrica
Sublima A.G.,
Breznice
Double boiler
operation
12, Bucina, near
Zvolen (Q49/C74)
State-run firm
!'odern factory
under construction
The capacities of the
Capacity
Number of '"orkmen
1,
300,000 sleepers
300
2.
300,000 sleepers
300
30
250,000 sleepers
200
4.
300,000 sleepers
300
5.
400,000 sleepers
500
6,
4003000 sleepers
4-00
7.
300,000 sleepers
150
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400,000 sleepers
200
9.
300,000 sleepers
300
10,
300,000 sleepers
200
110
300,000 sleepers
200
120
Will be built up as
triple boiler operated
factory with a capacity
of 600,000 sleepers
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a. Most of the firms listed have already been, or soon will be,
nationalized or absorbed into other nationalized undertakings.
b. Demands for sleepers amount to approximately 2,000,000 sleepers
yearly the works listed above were working to 50X1-HUM
80% capacity.
deliveries by the wood-impregnating firms to state 50X1-HUM
concerns the State Railways and the postal authorities amounted
to between 51% and 60% of capacity.,
d, At the moment, to-reach full capacity output the firms would have
to undertake considerable private business for electrical and
other private industrial concerns.
e. Wood deliveries to the impregnating factories
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