DANUBE METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY ROLLING MILLS (BRAILA)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010100300007-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Danube Metallurgical Industry Rolling
Mills (Braila)
PLACE
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DATE OF
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1. The Danube Metallurgical Ent rprises, known as IN]) (Industria Metalurgica
" Danubia), was formerly owned by Goldenberg Brothers but is now a State
enterprise. The factory is located at Strada Transilvaniei No. 5 in
Braila. It employs 1,800 skilled workers on a twenty-four hour a day
schedule (three eight-hour shifts).
2. The largest section of the workd is the Lamination Section which produces
half-finished goods that serve other departments as raw material. The
equipment consists of two furnaces with four oil injectors each. There
are also two series of rollers, with 24 rollers in each, arranged in
vertical sets of three. Iron bars coming from the furnaces are introduced
into a first roller known as the "oval," and emerge from the st.ries through
a roller called the "end." The mill produces 1,800 rods.for reinforced
concrete and 40-50 tons of flat and square b..rs.
3. The Wire Drawing Section produces finished iron and brass wire and also
iron wire used as raw material for the Nails Department. Its equipment
consists of a sulphuric acid bath in which wire coming from the Lamination
Section is placed, an annealing chamber for wire removed from the acid
bath, and two series of smaller rollers.
4. There are also a Nails Department, a Screws Department, a Chains Department,
and a Cutting Department. The Cutting Department cuts the raw material
into 1.20 meter lengths for the furnaces in the Lamination Section. It
also cuts the reinforcing rods and bars produced by that section into the
required lengths. Hand chisels are used for this purpose.
5. Other installations include an electric power station, workshops, a small
factory for the production of packing cases for nails, repair equipment for
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69 Pig iron is the chief raw material used, and it is brought by rail from
ed- and Resits. It is unloaded and stacked read; for cutting
near the railway siding.
7. Almost the entire output of the ;rks is loaded on freight cars going
to Reni (USSR).
8 There is a second rolling mill similar to the IMD works but better
equipped, also at Braila, called Industria Sarmeia This mill is more
hig:h1,ir mechanized.
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Appendix I
PERSONALITIES
B sancea factory medical adviser H~
Ao, lai8 nager of the -Lamination Section
Fisch assistant manager of the Lamination Section -
GeThe , engineer
G. chief cashier ~-~
ji&W general manager
Cesar assistant manager of the Lamination Section --
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Appendix II
1.
Arrow points toward center of torn.
11.
Chain making department.
2.
Strada Transilvaniei.
12.
Lamination department.
3-
Strad. Republicii.
13.
Nail drawing department.
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Entrance to the works.
24.
Wire drawing department.
5.
Road taken by employees and laborers.
15.
Screw cutting department.
6.
Vehicles only.
16.
Nail store.
7.
Porter and weighing machine.
17.
Railway siding.
8.
Administrative offices.
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Approximately 300 meters.
9.
Labor office.
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Approximately 400 meters.
10.
Electric power station.
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