STEEL PLANTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Steel Plants
DATE OF
INFO.
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ACQUIREI REPORT
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DATE DISTR. 27 March 1952
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Eisenhuettenkombi.nat-Ost (EK'O), `E?uera_tenber der
1. On 18 October 1951, the blast furnace recently ceremoniously dedicated by
Minister Otto Grotewohl at the Hu.ettenkombinat Ost(l) in Fue;rstenberg/Odes,
exploded..(2) Great damage was done and it was believed that the blast furnace
could not be operated for a long time, To carry out repair work, specialists
were selected from all parts of the East Zone of Germany and, brought to
Fuerstenberg.
all leading personalities, mainly the engineers50X1-HUM
who had been concerned In the building of the blast furnace, had been immediately
arrested.. Everybody had been sworn to secrecy and nobody was permitted to
report on 'the disaster.
Blast furnace Noe 1 finally commenced normal production on 26 October 1951,
after an act of sabotage at -the electrical control switchboard of this furnace
had been prevented Just in time o Blast furnace No a 2 is now scheduled to be
finished by 15 December 1951.
VEB' Walzwerk Finow
The building of four new strip rolling mill trains Is at present being planned
as an expansion -to this iron and steel foundry plant. Plans for the project
are under way at the Zentrales Konst:ruktions .Bue:ro (ZKB) of the HV Metallurgie 1
Ministry of Heavy Industry,(3) Berlin. It Is believed that these trains will
be ordered either at ABUS Schwermaschinenbau Wildau VEB or at SAG Buckau-Wolf,
Magdeburg.(.)
Lauchhanune.-r.)3 Muec ,enb :r )
One new smouldering plant is to be built at the brown coal briquette factory
to produce coke from brown coal briquette, for the low shaft(Niederschacht)
furnaces at Calbe. This plant will work on a new process recently developed by
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two professors (unnamed) of the Mining Academy, Freiberg, Saxony.(5)
`TEB M.axhuette Unterwe1lenbor?n
6. At least one, but possibly two, blast furnaces at this plant will have to be
closed on 1 January 1952 because their Interior brick linings have now been
so badly damaged by the sulphur content of the Polish blast furnace coke now
in use that the outer metal casing (Panzer or Mantel) is already glowing red
and white in a number of places. Four new deep furnaces will require rebuilding
in the spring of 1952 because of deterioration caused by normal Year and tear.
VEB Kupf er- uxid B.leehwalzwerk, Ilsenbur
7? Two tempering furnaces at this rolling mill plant will have to be condemned
at an early date,as the coal dust fuelling system is causing so much slag that
operation will soon become i.mpossi.ble
8. VEB Stahl- and Wal +ork' roeditz (6)
The production and distribution figures for the third quarter of 1951 are
as follows.-
a.
Steelworks (open hearth steel ingots).
1)
Plarmed production Actual production
34,000 eons 39,109 tons
Di stributl.on
Leuna-Worke Walter Ulbricht (SAG Mi.neralduenger)
1,107 tons
Walzwerk Willy Becker, Kirchmoeser, VEB
19,828 tons
Kupfer- und. Messingwerke, Hettstedt (SAG Marten)
1,716 tons
Kupfer- and Blechwalzwerk Michael Niederki.rchuer
1,968 tons
VEB, Iisenbur'g
Stahl- and Walzwerk Wilhelm 'lorin V , Hennigsdorf
1,934 tons
Krupp-Gnuson(1
494 tons
Buckau:-Wolf Magdeburg (SAG AMO )
1;462 tons
t ko jKohle (5
143 tons
Strip rolling mill, forges, etc
9 LI7~ tons
39,109 tons
b. Steel casting plant
planned k4joduct~~01
1,500 tons
Distribution
Own requirements
SAG cone::,-ns
Machine coxastructi.on, etc
43 tons
201 tons
1,107 tons
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Actual production
1,351 tons
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rollizlg mill
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!fanned production
dual C2ga,tr
6,000 tons
6,905 tons
Distribution
SAG concerns
Reichsbahn,, mines, railroads
Own requirements
2,077 tons
4+,82,1 tons
3.ton4
6,905 tons
Grey
pig-ice.sting plant
1)
Ply duction
Actual Eoftetiz
7,681 tons
8,423 tons
Distri't u ion
Multiple
molds plan Mold.
Chit, mold
(GeB
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casein s
Total
Stahl- arid. Walzwerk
Riesa YOB 1,239
Stahl.- and Walzwerk
Brandenburg VEB 3;,153 .
622'
711
1,861 tons
5,86+ tons
Stahl'' dWklzwerk Mexhuette
t1~%!tavel.~.snb :?n 64+3.
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643 tons
Bde1s tahlwerk Doehien
VIB 120
117
237 tons
8tah:lwork ' etterzeube 22
25 tons
Stahl- rand, Walzwerk
Groedi,tz YlB 1,180
238
125
1,543 tons
Grauguan-Toren ao
(and n)(7)
21?6
246 tons
tan 4
8,23 tans
An agreement has been signed between the DDR and the USSR for the supply of
250,000 metric tons of blast furnace coke. The tS has undertaken to supply
coke of good quality and deliveries.are to start in January 1952.
ommente The report of the explosion has not been confirmed..
Comment: On 5 Nove ber 1951 there was a break--O of the Ministry
of Heavy In Ustry and a new Ministry of Mining and Smelting was set up.
Commend: Renamed. Ilrnst Thaelmann Werke in May 1951.
Comment: A new process for the production of metallurgical coke from
brown coal ._-riquettes' invented by the national prize winners,, Rammler and
Bilkenroth, may be the process referred to.
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