THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003000240011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELUGENCE AGENCY REPOR i
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germ=?ar..r (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT The Iron and Steel Industry
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steel production facili-
ien and output and supply of steel' in the Russian Zone,
In Neer Constx?~act.
as A new pipe roiling mill has been placed in operation at Rinse. The pliant,
tich ryas dismantled by the Russians in Austria, has been rapidly rebuilt.
It consists of one push heating furnace, one press, two roll housings, three
draw benches, and four reheating furnaces. Seamless boiler pipes of a diameter of
from 25 to 130 r will be produced. The rionthly capacity is expected to be
700 tons.
IL The installation is housed in a new building which lips parallel to the rail-
may station at fiesa. The building is approxiristely 380 by 50 m.
c. A butt welding plant is being. erected to produce gas pipes. It is hoped that
a r.ianthly output of 400-500 tons of gas pipe grill, be reached.
d. A Y1annes? ann-type rolling mill is being built at Riesa. This rill has been
dis-antied by the A.3nos factory of Berlin. The rolling; mill will be used for
the manufacture of blooms.
a. `?kir?; on the rolling n ills., '?thich are to produce iron bars, 1s at a standstill
as the. technical equiprlent has not yet been delivered by Schloo-mann of D 1s el-
dorf.
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The 100-ton Siemens-4 artin furnaces are producing 12,000 - 3,3 000 tons of ingots
a month of which 2,000 tons are being stocked because the other mills in the
.astern Zone are unable to absorb completely the production from Rieaa. The
stocks will be used by the' rolling mills tahich is still to be erected. The price
of the Ingots Is D14 110 per tone Preparations are proceeding for the construction
of a 5-tcn electric furnace for electric steel casting
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ao Each month the Riesa steel worlo3 receive from the US M approxfmately
10200 tons of pig iron which contains rmanganese. Irregular deliveries
of 5 or 6 railway cars at a time are also received from Poland and TiuW?y.
The oe shipments are used for the production of ingots, ` of which are
derived from scrap and 10% of which are derived from pig iron. The imports
are handled by the Stahl- Land Bloenbandelsgesellachaft in Leipzig, Witten.
bergstrasse. The Riesa Plant pays DM 80 per ton, plus DM 16.80 freight
charges. The pit iron comes by rail from the interior of Russia to Bres--
Litovsk where it is transferred to European gauge freight cars.
b. The fennigsdorf steel plant delivers rolled iron to Riess which is used i.n
the reconstruction of the works. This rolled iron is unsatisfactory because
the Iennigsdorf factory does not possess'the necessary shears to smooth the
edges of the rolled iron. In addition to this, because of the lack of turrr-
irnf; machines in the plant at Hennigsdorf, the iron can be used only for repair
work,, because, when delivered,, it is not smooth.,
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a;, The Stahluerk Rirchm$ser near Brandenburg, which had been completely disantlec1
by the Russians, is being rebuilt on the site of the engine?slad,of the former
railway repair shop at Kirchmnser. The sh+sa which measures 250 x 300 m., in
being equipped with 60-ton cranes and Siemens-1:16rtin gas--heated furnaces,; which
are bsinP brought from I
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-, Tractors will also be made at the steel-
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a. The port--installations and loading cranes (hhi schlag1crrne) are already taorking,
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