EAST GERMAN GROUP VISITS AZOV STEEL COMBINE AT ZHDANOV, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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1. The group of East German metallurgical employees under Ferdinand Schreiber which
is currently in the USSR on a study tour did not travel to the Ural Mountain
.district but to Zhdanov on the Sea of Azov. Upon arrival in Moscow, the group
was told'that they would visit the Azov Steel Combine in Zhdanov, which is under
the direction.of a large group of old-line personnel.
2. The entire delegation was divided into three groups upon arrival at the Azov Steel
Combine; a blast furnace group, a steel mill group, and a sintering installation
group. Since the delegation was without an interpreter, some difficulties arose,
and the director of the Azov Steel Combine provided each group with a ,Soviet who
understood some German. Members of the groups also took two hours off' Russian
instruction three times per week. The training which the Schreiber groups are
receiving is based.on the new Soviet training plan for metallurgists. Each'group
is trained in its particular specialty, and each has assigned to it as group
leader an experienced Soviet engineer. The Soviet group leaders give two hours
of theoretical instruction four times weekly. Practical instruction consists
of familiarizing the German study groups with each and every part of the installations
on which they work. Karl Franke's group, which is studying sintering installations,
is going through the Azov Steel Combine's sintering mill section by seeti?an,with
.each week devoted to one section of the installation. Members of'the group are
permitted to see any drawings and blueprints they want to and are permitted
to sketch any parts of the installation they desire.
3. The Azov Combine's sintering installation is a conveyor installation which has been in
operation for six months; it is allegedly the most modern mill of its kind in.the USSR.
Production runs smoothly and amounts to 1,500,to 1,800 metric tons per day; on some
days production even amounts to 2,000 metric tons. Control of production is extremely
strict and operates on a'scientific basis.. Control of the production process begins
at the ore bankers and continues to the final sintering process.
USSR (Ukrainian SSR)/East Germany
East German Group Visits Azov Steel
Combine at Zhdanov, USSR
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4. The sintering installation uses only coke from blast furnace sifting
(Hochofenabsiebung). When delivered, the coke is granular in form,with an
average diameter up to 30 mm. It is then ground by a four-roller crushing
machine; two of the rolls do preliminary crushing and the other two final
crushing. The preliminary rolls reduce the coke to grains 6 to 10 mm in size;
the final rolls crush the coke until it is up to 3 mm in size. The quality
of the coke'is considered the most important factor in the sintering process,
and granulation of the coke is strictly controlled by the plant management.
5. The sinters (Agglomerate) are divided into the following three'types:
Type 1 Fe 54 percent
Fe 0 19-25 percent
Rattler test: up to 26 mm
Type 2 Fe less than 54 but not below 50 percent
Type 3
(called Prack-
Ausschuss)
Fe 0 17-19 percent
Rattler test: 26 Ito 30 mm
Fe less than 50 percent
Fe 0 less than 17 percent
Rattler test: more than 30 mm
The blast furnaces Will pay the full price for type 1, half price fob type 2,
but will not' use type 3 at all.
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Azov Steel Ccm4bine was fulfilled 107 percent; 2,100 metric tons of Type 2 and
180 metric tons of Type 3 were produced.
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