MAXIMILIANSHUTTE STEEL WORKS AT UNTERWELLENBORN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002800280009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 6, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT tfaxiraitian: hf tte :Steel '7orks
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED IN ORMATION
.n Production at the steel. works for February 19.9 was as follows:
a. Pig iron : 8 500 tons of target)
b. Crude steel : 9,300 tons (925 of target)
co Rolled steel : 10,200 tons (89% of target)
2, The .fol_Iai4ng p duc uicon difficulties occurred In the plant:
a. There has been a breakdown in the supply of both electricity and as le
cause of nNierioad.i? ;, In aclditi.on; the inr of V1111 ceased p` ci uct -or cur.'.
iai ',`arch becaw'se of defects in both it>o Azrnacoo, andd, the ro.li.nr; n l
tas aeon so over.t.uatea -wna c, :Lts i`uraace i .as sut'Vored sever wear anc< tsar,,
Repair work is being accelerated, and experts frog the Tlenni sdorf Steel
`?Torks have been called to sjupervi se .
b. Engineers attribute the br?eakdowi, which has seriously hampored tie nl-ci--
clu.ction r1annin ; program, to the rlath:1ese exploitation by the DT.K of " I'-nut
machinery, and nanpo,,)er.
In early March 3,949, the following r ztorials arrii od from Czechoslo,,.raki.a:
a. 18,00O tons of refined ore,
",000 tons of coke for the smelting of refitiec1 ore.
It alas reported during March that the equi nont for the new sintering plant of
Maxim. nsh .tte had arrived from Czechoslovak:?a, amts being instilled, and was
to 1 in operiti.on b-y 30 April.
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Class. CHANGED TO: TS S
DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77
Auth: DDA REG. 77/1763
Date : I i B7AY ^
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