HUTA STALOWA-WOLA STEELWORKS AND ROLLING MILL IN STALOWA-WOLA

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• Publication Date: May 9, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Huta Stalovia-1'iola Steelworks and
Rolling Mill in Stalowa-$yola,
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1.. 'Location:.Italovia-.1ola (r: 51,/:,, 70) is a, tovin of 8,500 popu-
rat on on the an ILiver, about 5 km southeast of hoz,:iadow and
7 kt northwest of i isko. . highway and trio hozwadow-Lisko
railroad line pass through Ltalorwa-..-ola.
2. i.ane of plant: iiuta :~talovja-,.-ola
3. 10-;nershin: . nationalized Polish enterprise.
4. rind of plant: ..teelworks and rolliia -- 'mill.
5. Plant history: the talvz1ia-..ola district is a barren, sandy
area, fornerly sparsely st-t tledq The steel7vorks and rolling
rill and the nodern town were built by order of .iarshal Pil-
sudski and not completed until 193?. The plant suffered no
war damage and is operated at full capacity.
6. ..3upervision: The plant is sutord.inate to the aun.in ;1.driinii .Ica.+.-
tion of .75u horn I lants in Katovzicca,
tanage rnt :
Technical -:anger: jzan.o .1ski
Chief Technical Liesigner: Jensz
.eputy tanager and Production Chief: itadalski
Jana der of iieavy Construction .Jepartment: Engineer Lustig
.ianapper of Rolling_ -rill: Loczinsk
n&'sneer of Lolling: . ;i li : ioimann
20 technicians
York force: 5,OCO workrrien, i:nciudin. r D50 to 1Ek0 P.T'sf,
~Ibo:tt 65 percent of the ~ olish ?!orkrion .,ere untrained. or noi,jly-
trained, and the roma1v er vmwe Skilled wor n0'
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` a~A plant does not re:uiro so large a t.,,uork force. There were
three s:_ifts.
Location of plant: The plant is southwest of atalowa--'ola, south
of the l,ov*.1adow-Disko highway, about 3 km:t frori the an itiver,
about 3 kmz from ,ozr-adow and about 5 km from Sisko. The area
was form. rly a dense fir forest, which was lar :ely preserved
around the town and the plant.
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10. Plant area: about 2,000 x 1,500 meters
1:1. 'Plant installations: (see corresponding numbers on ainnex) :
(1);ativrii 11
(2) ,.sset:ably shop
(3) 'axtitioned room where German BE and 105-r, antiaircraft
guns (au omatic control) and 126-rzm antiaircraft puns
details not observed)have been completely disassembled
since January 1949. ifter the technical designs of the runs
were copied and the material tested, they were reassembled.
(4) 't'ool shop 40 milling' nachines, 20 grinding rac'iines, 35
lathes and some small cold saws (.,v. -ner type) , a butt-weld-
ing machine and 10 furnaces.
(5) ..,anagement of technical dop lent.
(6) _.echanica1 department : about achine tools
(7) in.nex, 50 x 100 meters. The ounda'lion allegedly was comple-
ted y the end of July 1949.
(0) Plant management and chemical laboratory.
(9) ~.,quph-tooling department.
(10) ardoning shop.
(11) i-'or?:,e: 2 hydraulic presses; 30 to 40 hammers.
(12) 'inishirrg asse+ Lly of chassis, (Preliminary treat lent in
department i'4o 6. )
t(5.3) ,teelworks: Two open-hearth furnncus; gas heating (natural
gas) `volumetric capacity: 60 to 80 tons each. Two )er.ag
furnaces (arcs) and two induction furnaces.
(14). jump for steel production.
4--15) aolling mill: 4 sheet rollin?:g trains, 3 section rolling;
trains and a wire-drawing shop.
(16) Lnnex; bus It in 1949.
(17) teel depot.
(16) . anagovent.
(19) hed for plant locomotives (stearm).
,/ .2. Production:
itoel plates and plates up to 30-mn gauge
.sectional iron (all shapes)
Concrete mixers
-.eaavy metal shears
Tubes of different diaricters
}:iston rings
Crankshafts
.3x10 s
Gear wheels
Opriru's for railroad cars
Guns
Lall bearings
Pne r .atlc hart iers
uutonobile chassis
a. General:. `There; was only a: small rifle production in 1945. The
lant has increasingly specialized in en ?i.neeringg construction
since 2,946.
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..:odel riachines of this riant wore shown at the International
L,xposition in i osen (P 53/kk 26) in 1948 and 1949. eav * reach .nc
castinrrs ,ere delivered frori to-ner Oilesia.
racial observations:
~~ )1Lorthorn half of 1-aorkshop . o 2: Production or ball bonrin;_'s,
25 to 1,20 n/l in diapteter. outhern halt : rinishin.- assorably
of concrete rzi; ers (L,-ritish type) .
(2) ,orkshop :.o 6: Production of au.toriobile pistons and Opel,
..enault, i ord 170 'V, etc. , piston parts for delivery to the
.,oviet Lnion. i late shears J?els -erlin tyre 2.5 a-:.d 5-rteter
cutting; length. .ec ti on shears (in three reproduced ' types )
up to 10--"2a through-cut. Pneumatic hampers (reproduced
%rench Leche type) . Parts of truck chassis, ivhich go to the.
finishing assembly in workshop avo 12 and are delivered to the
:3taracholn:ice U- 52/ a 05) .1utonobilc: Plant,
(3) Large flywheels. are tooled in 1.-workshop . o 9i.
"13.. Production std
The ran arterials come by rail. Loth open-hearth furnaces
are tapped three times daily, which means a total daily
output of 180 tons of steel per furnace,. The .,)emag furna_,
ees produced about 90 tons of steel daily and the induction
furnaces about 90 tons of special steels.*
b. ,:steel and ingot steel were processed in t!-1a rolling mill.
steel plates and plates of up to 30- n gauge, as well ns
sectional iron of all shapes, and square iron (length of
side: 120 ran.) were produced.
14Q Iiaw r>atorials:
The following cane from Lpper -:ilesia and other parts of Poland:
Pic Iron
L oa l and coke
Ingot steel
:;cram
'Joloriite
Lime
15. - Pole r:
.supplied by the Uzet Power ,tation, 3 k,i, norti of ;.;tal(nwsa-, ola,
between the to~?n and the ,an diver. .his power station was built
at the srn tine as the .uta ,,talo :a ..ols la.nt, and supplies
electricity loth,. to the *)1 !nt ant the town.
16, Traffic facilities:
.,pur track and hid?hr,,ay connocuion.
17. Outgroin shipments: .bout 10 carloads daily.
1#. Trade corrnissioners: :.Jvaedish businessmen wore seen in th. print
in 1946 and 19417, and occasionally unifornod soviets, chin eats
,went to the ..,oviet ljion at that ti?ie. Later, these corriercial
ag 3.nt s were usually in civilian dress.
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10 . security. _.arbed.-:,,ire fence, ~IIatchtoti~ers, well-trained nlarst
ri litia, strict checkint; of idenyif'.cotion payers at rates.
< ll = rs were .?rithdrawn in June 1949. J
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a. ':'he otalowa- :ola _;,lant started production in 19 '9 m it pro_
duced 40,000 cons of open-hearth stoel and 2b,000 tons of
electric steel in 1939. `The rolliz hill capacity had aI.vnady
been incr :rase 3. to 100,000 tons of rolled product; in 193_19.
gib. itccordin;? to Para 13, the estimated annual production ixay Le
about 110,000 tons of opan-1Ioarth steel and about 45,000 tons
of electric steel, or a total of 155,000 tons of steel. L.
rollixq , losses are about 25 percent,, about 110,000 tons
of rolled products can be made fro n this in .ot steel pro-
duction.. Therefore, full utilization of the existin- rolling,
mill capacity can b a a~;sumod.
c. The plant produced only armor platas and puns in 1939.
d. 'he plant 4n'as a subsidiary of the -errtann~-UoerinC "crust
during thu Gexptan occupation of .oland.
1 annex: 1 lu.eprint,p"riuta otalowa- ola'P uteel,?iorks and rolling
ii11 in talov,a-.:ola.
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