THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003000230020-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: July 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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-,* ' CENTRAL INTEWGENCE AGENCY REPOR`i
ONFOR ATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germm?arv (Ruussian Zone)
SUBJECT The Iron and Steel Industry
PLACE
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
(steel production facili-
ties d output and supply eso el' In the Russian Pone.
1. Plow G n t rue
as A now pipe rolling mill has been placed in operation at Riesa. The plant,
which z?1as di .ntled IV the Russians in Austria, has been spicily rebuilt.
It consists of one push heating furnace, one press, two roll housings, three
drat; benches,, and four reheating furnaces. Seamless boiler pines of a diameter of
from 25 to 130 will be produced. . The monthly capacity is expec-',,ad to be
700 tone.
h. The installation is housed in a new building which lies parallel to the rail-
way station at fiesa. The building is approxinate2y 180 by 50 m.
o. Amitt w,ralding plant is be:ing_ erected to produce gas pipes. It is hoped that
a monthly output of 400-500 tons of gas ripe will be reached.
d. A 11annesriann: t rolling mill is being built at Riesa. This mill has been
dis-antled by the A3.rnos fae)ory of Berlino The rolling mill will be used for
the manufacture of blooms.
e. t?iol, on the rolling rills, which are to produce iron bars i at a standstill
as the. technical o ui. ent has not t been e
dart-- on
The 100-ton Siemens-41artin furnaces are producing, 12,000 - 13,000 tons of ingots
a ?month of which 2,000 tons are being stocked because the other mills in the
Eastern Zone are tenable to absorb completely the production from Riesa, The
stocks will be used by the' rolling mill, which is still to be erected, The pricafe
of the Ingots Is DM 210 per ton. Preparations are proceeding for the construction
of a 5--tcn electric furnace for electric steel casting.
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by Each month the Riesa steel t.orks receive from the US,12 appro te3y
14200 tons of pig iron which contains manganese. Irregular deliveries
of 5 or 6 railway cars at a tip are also received from Poland and Hungary.
These shipments are used for the production of ingots, 90% of which are
derived from scrap and 10% of which are derived from pig iron. The imports
are handled by the Stahl- rand E1oenIaandelsg?sellechaft in Leipzig'. Witten-
bergstrasse. The Riesa plant pays DM 80 per tong plus DX 16.80 freight
charges. The pig iron comes by rail from the interior of Russia to Brest-
Litovsk where it is transferred to European gauge freight cars.
b,. The Hennigsdorf steel plant delivers rolled iron to Riesa which is used in
the, reconstruction of the works. This rolled iron is unsatisfactory because
the tlermigsdorf factory does not possess 'the necessary shears to smooth the
edges of the rolled iron. In addition to this, because of the lack of turn-
ing machines in the plant at Rennigsdorf, the iron can be used only for repair
work., because, when deliver d, it is not smooth?
The StejWrk, K h r. near BzVadent
a{, The Stahlr:erk Kirchm5ser near Brandenburg, which had been completely dismntlet
by the Russians,, is being rebuilt on the site of the engine ? sl. of the former
railway repair shop at Kirchm iser. The d which measures 250 x 300 m., isi
being equipped with 60-ton cranes and Siei ens-3Nrtin gae-heated furnaces, which
ax-,j being brought from Salzgitter. Tractors will also be made at the steel-
umrks.
Tao One hundred and twenty railroad cars with machinery
had arrived by 10 F are g 1949,, for the a p-
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c. The port-Installations and loading cranes (U,uach3.agkrAno) are already 'working.
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