NOWA HUTA WORKS, KRAKOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600010005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATOON REPORT CD NO,
COUNTRY Poland
DATE DISTR. 22 "Jay 551
SUBJECT Kowa Huta Works, Krakow NO, OF PAGES I
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
NO. OF ENCt_S.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Construction of the new iron and steal foundry Nowa. Huts., near Krakow, was
planned and carried out by the Russians. It has been the subject of an
intensive propaganda campaign, and an expansion program for 1951 is only
awaiting technical documentation froze the Soviet Union to be put into effect
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It is planned to enlarge the mechanical workshop, garages and means of com-
munication, and the forges and steel construction workshop. For the mechanical
workshop, orders have been placed with the engineering workshops of the Union
of Mechanical Installations Industry, Pruszkow (R53/ 8S), for 17 high speed
lathes, 17 frame drilling machines, one milling machine; two grinding machines
for shafts and holes, and 15 two-way drilling machines. The Stalin I ,tal Industry
Workshop in Ponian has received orders for one circular saw', three beam drilling
machines, two revolver `(sic) lathes, and two grinding machines for lathes. The
mechanical workshop will also receive six horizontal shaping machines from the
Union of Textile Industry in Lodz.
3. For two garages avid communications at Norte. Huta, the Union of P chonical Installa-
tions Industry is to provide two band saws; six frame drilling machines; one 50X1-HUM
milling machine; one lathe; eight grinding machines, one of them for sh:i_elds? and
an installation for gauging faults in cables, obtained
t ohzgh1o trim import center for electrical apparatus)
A horizontal shaping machine is to c r,e from the Union of Textile Industry;, and
one grinding machine for valves Type 14-4, (sic) has been ordered through Polimox
(import center for machine tools).
4. Plans for expansion of the forges at Nova Huta have required the ordering of one
frame drilling machine and two grinding r.chines. For the steal construction
workshop, two frame drilling machines were ordered from the Union of Mechanical
Installations Industry; one band saw and one beam drilling machine,, from the
Stalbi Metal Industry Workshop; and one saw from the Stalowa Wola Works at
Stalowa, tdola (Ft.51/Q70) .
5. Before 10 March 1951.
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shop at Nowa Huta,. Four more are to he delivered-by+T lay..-The1number ?4of regular
workers at Norra Huta is to be raised to 22,000, Rails and plates for tanks will
be produced.
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