SURPLUS OF BROWN-COAL TAR IN THE GDR (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R012800030004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
German Democratic Republic
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a conference of representatives of the GDR
chemical industry. The purpose of the eo erence was to discuss the reasons for the oversupply
of brown-coal tar and the possibilities for the elimination of this surplus. It is stated
that the present output of the CDR carbonization plants amounts to 1.6 million tons of brown-
coal tar per year, of which 1,0O,0OO tons are processed. One of the major difficulties is
that the tar-processing facilities at the GDR chemical plants are inadequate. After discussion
2 5X1 of various proposals for the elimination of the brown-coal tar surplus, data are given on
stimates and the planned increase in fuel-production capacities in connection with the
cost estimates-
necessary construction of additional tar-processing installations.
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the surplus are: 1) as of 1951, imported crude oil is being processed into benzine, diesel
fuel, and fuel oil (which seems to indicate that less emphasis is placed on processing brown-
coal tar for these purposes); 2) increasing productivity of the carbonization plants accounts
11 one of the representatives at the
abovementione meeting), concerning the brown-coal tar oversupply. The main reasons given for
for the greater output of brown-coal tar.
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