"SOVIET A.G., NITROGEN WORKS AT PIESTERITZ"

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORNIA1103 PORT CD NO,
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
IkePiesteritz Nitrogen lifbrlso (Stickstoffwe-6.. Piesteritz) became a Soviet
(sAG) :thanattultely after the r.T.nly.1 of the war. '1.ocause of the great
irportance of the firm, ?isaikely that the Piesteritz,
enterprise- tda be returned to ib? Soviet 2.;r:rse goverment ., riThe reconstructi.cn
of the Urge:Li d-temntled plant was begun 2,9h6 under the leadership of
Pz.of, Dr., Fra.n7t. present Director at the To.:thrische Univers-it:At in the
Scviat Sector of Berlin., In l9/47., lians Wagr.e.r asslaned the Cennan managemen'6
of tke p12nt, The ,I",ussian .ddrectiogenc...ral and the chief enrineer work
clossly -u1.121 the BM i 7,1t,trearg. The other RUSSia.n chemists
and BAginears employed at the plant -were transferred to other enterprises
(ie o).fons Leona Buna o ) or cent bct to RUS:3itt in the middle . of
15.49, linen the disrantling had been completed-
2. Prod .action: The enterprise lost about 7r..) percent of its capscity through
diamTar-g..? The very important installations for the production of
phos D1101?017.13 fertilizers ("Nitrophc.slca) were entirely tiismantied, In 19146,
'ten the recon.3truction of the ent.or.-prie began, the following goods Ya'cree
nrodlced:
a. Calcium cyaamideo the principz.a. or.)duct, which by the middle of 19'49
acounted to 300 tons a month..- it significant
increase in this output lo rot posAble since the furnaces are of an
old typal, e.rd for technical rezlso.e additional furnacet,3 Lr.Y.I.not, be
L-15'60.1.2(1,, ''.1:11,s calcium cyammide .oroducti,on does not Field a profit:.
b. 10c-by-lone soot for the entire thnical rubber industry. Acetylene is
attracted from calcium carbide,
c. Liquid and gaso'nm okyE,.en,
d.? INricus chemiosJ. products$ obt,?ined from the over-all production. procese
Ci? from the processing of ahem'oal by-products.
e, C,Ucium carbide (commercial carbide).
C,35:aet1es and phacrtaceutical 7roducts,
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:ody the Zolowin: new oroduco and production methods have been
?Li.cm7;f3e: obtanc,:. nyaromiCe: serv5 as raw mateo.A.a7.
(-7)o'o7odu'ot) Tor the c.-called "Didi-Pressmasseo? which is used for suoo
consumer goods as lamp sockets, telephones, and radio tube bases,
cabinets, and sockets. Dicyandiamide is also used to manufacture
vim (Didi mood glue for the furniture and construction industries,
end Didi office glue).
o. .LLXLcc:LT:bide 1.1.liz.cct in tie praductioi c car'oorundum bricks,
and heatf-resistant brick for furnaces. Obtained
r;orrv'erT,5.xt ( tlimsetzen) of quartz pyrites and coal in ar:,
t.lestric resistAanoe furnace at approAmately 2000 degrees aentizrades,
;Edlic,.on carbide has a very F-2..eat, degree of hardneas, ",ftiesteri.tz has
be oray silioon carbide thst,a.11ations currently in production in Gera:any,
for the piantg in mcistence in southern Gernsny until 19/15 i.irere completely
bombed oat. e Piesteritz install?.tions, to be completed shortly, will
possibic? ac.-..;oz.ding to pres,-,-:r.t estimates,' a monthly production ot
3.2C tons of silicon carbide,
ar.: insulating mai.-.erial used for refrigerator railroad
oton anc's -le a product derived from artificial resin?
lay means cl f'ormald.ehyde ane? subsequently hardened.)
onl-y otneo Genr.oin firm which manufactures insulating material is
ffoo. Leverkusen in -.Tester:a Cern-any:, but the Piesteritz plant not Way
iil1?113.1:2 thc vie Zona independent of western Germany: but. also will
profr.ce snoagh in excess of the -73:-.)viet Zone 3s monthly- requirements of
tons to ..e.lace possible the ::,ixporting of considerable quantities
cf L-isu.5.a.i...ing material.
Co. The new ohor&acautical preparations manufactured by Piesteritz mill
provide stro.n.-; competition for tie Leverkosen and Bayer preparations in
the coming year . ?RP ticif1zr3.1 important are the following products:
(1) "il,o,,,tophert"? (antipyretisches) and anti-neuralgic
(aatinaTralgisohes"-) medicim., which is painkilling.,
(2) trulnorary routler? experiments with which
it will 3hort/1y play an important role in surgery.,
e. rilitrophoska" is to be produced again in an installation whose construction
vas planeed in 17149, Sinc,e the Soviet Zone has at its disposal only
slight quantities of sulphuric acid for the textile and other industries,
a new way was sought in the fertilizer industry to obtain without, sul-
phuric acid a disintegration (Aufschluss) -which would allow an efficient
fertilizer of this kind to be extracted.. Under the new process, "Intro-
phoska" is obtained by the steaming of raw phosphates in an aqueous
solu.i;ion with nitric acid. This process also produces "Trine.triumphosphat
...Lnsi....,1111,2or,iorE: for ieriun.1-e of nitric acid are also planned,
i3Eid r thf.s instalh. tiO T3 Carla titute tha ori1-
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The efforts or Leon to artquire tlie new inotollotioo fo:o
has delayed approval of Vri,3 Piesteritz project by Kook-lshorst
ond Trkstiosensee despite the exertions of the 3 to win this approvel.
fo.tetall the plant at Fieste-Joitz would cost 16 million DTI east,
'out at. Lerma it oould cost ar,yorcodmately 24 to 26 million P east. AlC
t P*estcrit the ins talla "oier. cld be erected sufiicien1y rapidly
so 1:hat by 19!..'40 production 7iou1c.T. reach 2C 0O3 to 30,000 tone a .year? The
31'0 cC tcd. C acity of the instal la t.ion is 60,000 tans a year.,
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