FOUNDRY AT DIOSGYOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

FEB ?? 1952 51-Z4AA
COUNTRY Hungary;
SUBJECT Foundry at Di6sgy6r
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE.
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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1. The present director of the Diosgybr..Foundry is Gera Varga. Alexander Harmati
party secretary of Borsod County, is in charge of control for the Communist Par' tje..
From a technical point of view, Alexander Nyilas, head of the Smelting and. Mach t r.!
Industry Ministryps smelting division, exercises supreme control. Ladislas KtomJ,?t
a deputy of the Minister of Smelting and. Machine Industry, often comes to Di.5sgn"a
He usually sharply criticizes the heads of the sections for "lack of technological
discipline." Head of the Diasgy'r Foundrys smelting furnaces is Anthony Som+otgyta
who admits that in 1952.the plant was constantly lagging behind the prescribed p l;),:
for raw iron production with 5,000 to 8,500 tons.
2. The real leaders of the plant are the Soviet Russian "advisers" who hold th n.1eI'v
completely in the background, so that almost nobody, except the above mentirjne.I
Hungarian directors, know anything about their doings. Informant saw only one of
them, Chief Engineer Raktchayev (Thu), whose main task is to control the merc:~la;3~,
driving of the workers (now euphemistically called "technological discipline" ),
and to make certain that the production ;nc~r;ass., fixed by the Soviet Russian "ad.7-
ers," are rigorously followed. He continually insists upon increasing the nmmber
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of portions fed to the furnaces. It should be noted here, that in the fall of
a new group of Hungarian workers from D16sgy6r was sent to the USSR to .learn.
"technological discipline" in the Soviet smelting works.
3. Head of the Didsgyo"r Foundryvs Martin Furnace section is Stephen Zombori; head
engineer is Stephen Farkas; chief engineer is Gerald Repasi; secretary of the
Communist Party is Alexander Gergely;.representative of the MEO is Francis Pete.
The political (nffi(wr a are responsible for every default, difficulty, lagging;,
etc., and therefore these change frequently.
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The importance of the DidsgySr Foundry is very considerable both from the point
of war reparations deliveries to the Soviet Union, which still. go on, and war
equipment export to the Soviets. This plant furnishes 80 percent of Hungaryes
rolled.steel production. -e quality of the present production is poor; the..
quality of-the plates for tanks and-boilers is even worse. The axle steel produced
by the Martin Furnaces of Didsgyffr contained 30 percent scrap in 1952.
The processing of axles for railway cars is done by the Dimavag Works. The proces-
sing of the armored and boiler plates is done by the rolling mills of I,?rinc. As a
result of faulty work, a great number of steel plates open up during heating. The
Russians are furious. To overcome the many defaults, they ordered that considerabi;
.less scrap iron should be fed to the furnaces. Furnace No. 1 makes armor and boile:
plates; furnace No. 9 makes axle steel. It has been ordered that slag be removed
twice from the furnaces, and less lime added, for allegedly, lime greatly increases
slag formation. But the root of the defects is the increased tempo of the work,
and the constantly deteriorating quality of the raw materials. The main product
of the Didsgynr, Foundry is 50 kilogram rail steel, which is rolled by the same
factory. Chief engineer in charge of rail steel production is Reti (fnu), and
he has'been made responsible for the very faulty. production.
6. Furnace No. 3 in the Di6sgy6r Martin Furnaces was rebuilt in the fall of 1952.
Furnaces No. 5 and 6 are being pulled down, and in. their stead Hdngaryss biggest
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