PORTLAND AND SPECIAL CEMENT FACTORY, PULJ

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO.
FEB 1952 51-"A
CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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SUBJECT Portland and Special Cement Factory, Pulj NO. OF PAGES 2
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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-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1, The Tvoraica Portland i. Specijalnih Cemeata (Portland and Special Cement Factory)
at Pulj? comprises a compound of buildings Which occupy an area some 250 matere
- square, at the tip of Sveti Petar Reef in the port of Pulj. This zone was once
occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Great 'Food Supply (sic) depots.
Personnel
2. Ls of 27 November 19513 the director of the factory was Giovanni Pavikieva6, from
Pulj, Who had replaced a certain Exigineev Lakota. Pavikievaz has since been re-
placed as director by an unidentified individual,. Other members of the staff at
the factory have been identified asg Carlo Lusetic? Political Cammissar is Per-
sonnel Directors end Doctor Katunar, a chemist,
o EMpyad at the factory are approximately 400 workers and 20 clerical empaoyeee.
The 20 clerical employees and 200 ordinary workers are assigned to a single
ahift. from 700 a.m. to 300 p.mo However, some 6.0 workers who are assigned to
the furnaces, grinders and other vital production areas, work from.600 a.mo to
6200 p.m0 on, one day3 from OgdO p.m. to 6g00 aomo the next day, and have Ihe
third day off. Two hundred per-diem workers and per-diem employees work On
one summer shift from 700 s?,mo to 300 pomo The workers receive an average
month17 wage of 43000 dinars. Approximately 100 workers eat one meal a day in the
messhill of the factory. Morale among the factory workers is quite low for tw
reasonag one, because their wages ore'imsufficient to cover the cost of te bare
necessitieg of life s and two because there is a large number of informers Who re-
port all complaints and acts of sabotage on the part of the workers to the diret-
ii.ng staff.
Raw Materials
4. Materials used in the production of cement at the factory are obtained from the
following neighboring
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a. Ordinary stone is obtained from a quarry close to 7ortMusil, some 1.5
kilometers from the factory;
b. rBauite arrives from Istria and Croatia both by rail and by sea;
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c. Marl comes from an undetermined area in Dalmatia by sea; and
d. Clay arrives at the factory by truck from an undetermined source.
Times of Cement
5.0 The Portland and Special Cement Factory' produces the following types of cement:
a. A special blended cement is produced in furnaces (No. 10 on attached
sketch) through the blending of a mixture composed of 5 quintals of
bauxite briquettes to every 2.9 quintals of stone the size of a base-
ball. From 15 to 17 tons of this cement are produced in 22 hours.
Portland cement is produced in a rotary furnace (No. 18 on attached
sketch) from clay and stone which has been finely ground in a crusher
(go. 11 on attached sketch). Some 30 to 140 quintals of this type are
produced in an hour.
A third unspecified type of cement, which is whiter than Portland
cement, and is given more careful processing, is prepared for export.
No further details concerning the production of this type of cement
are available.
b.
Process used in the Production of Blended Cement
6. Only one of the fawrfernaces (go. 10 On the attached-sketch) dwrimd,:by the
factory is now in operation. In the production of the blended cement, the fur-
nace is fired with wood, and maintained at a temperature of 1,600 - 1,700 degrees
(probably centigrade) by means of coal dust which is produced in the factory
grinders (No. 17 on the attached sketch). The furnace is then loaded with 60
small carloads (sic) of bauxite and stone mixture, altogether some 480 quintals.
When this first load reaches the incandescent stage,8 to 10 more carloads of the
same mixture are fed into the furnace every 10 or 15 minutes. Every hour some two
small carloads of clinker pour out of the furnace into a sliding ingot mold ami
solidify into ingots. From the mold, the ingots are dumped into small care which
carry then into a shed which houses a crane (No. 14 on attached sketch). The
crane conveys the ingots to an area near the grinder NO. 13 on attached sketch)
where they are crushed into pulverized cement, which is taken to the silos (No. 21
on attached sketch). From the siloe? the finished product is tra,msported by means
of two underground conveyor belts activated by three electric motors, to the bag-
ging and packing sections (go. 22 on the attached sketch).
This blended cement is sold for some 1,400 dinars per quintal. No details relative
to the ultimate destination of this cement are available other than that it is
shipped by truck, rail and sea.
8. Attached is a sketch and legend of the Portland and Special Cement Factory at
Pulj.
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Sketch to Portland and Special Cement Factory compourd at Pulj
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s.Darts.,uct:ltraoL, -U, t;. arfacws any':
logend to Sketirqh Artipt0'110.1 Cemert Fact2E-Leojr,Dpowit
Na at Th45 ban twr,, par T,s; croe 'he acitittance of factory persornel
Teaclesi, Writie tne othe-' part, ist the railway spur Which connect the
factory with the :,-41?,?,.-tlway 1.01) at PuiLj
2. Wei/2;111_1:a sect,'LonTh L.5 4:omposed of a ore-g?tory masonry 'building, 80TOP 7 x 5
meters inZt., 11 verw oo lOrLeted too the left of the main entranc
gate. The bulid-Inp:h gtterdpf.7,3t and EeenWity check ofti.ce where pr-
are checker...1. qielr e.,;iAer c Fea the factory's, a.od a weigh.iig ro,i contain.-
ig a platform r??7,71,e
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- TILis is lociateld, ?tolyi?s?-, meters to tre left of the weigAing section.
The worker imes:thaal :located herr,V Two trucks of tuldetermined mike ere
kept in this gatrae.
Messhall - Thi 1 t for .!lerical, empLoyeeu.; and factory.workers, and ts ho ed
in the same biJJiig with the garage? building is of masonry constrictions, some
x 18 meters :in size? with id-le-cove Ted mof.
0 Kitchen ard food cormJesarv This-1 is an almost triangular haped buildtag of
masormr? construction? t:Lte-coverei 1'00*, having the following dtminsionsg
the two narrow side atsoni;s: Ix and, b meters long while the long side is about
9 meters in lengtit,
60 Narrow:-.railway .E.imranr-1 This- toai between the messhail and the
atc-hen and forrk- r.,eymr,.:A:sary
70 Tarrolitg!rige_rai?:"Lwaly ? ?1rii i.Wed, VL transport the stone Obtaaned from the quarry
near Fort Flue:ee te), the fattoly, The railway are are drawn by a mai1 steam
lootmottve. WO_?hin -141e chmpoind? the nerrow-gauge railway raze a: long for a die=
tar of about 80 metere, and then at a certain point rises to the height of the
craeherS a.nd theri eeveer.de re .,"0.1.11 the rat tway spur at the entrance to the fazt-
ory grounds. A sweveh. perrej ee tee, ears% wnicii are loaded with stones to he shunted
to the turnac?;e-,:jj tIte Cepartnetni? ?
'nistrative o -1C N77.11$44 in. a masonry building 50/11(.1' 40 X 10
meters in area, wtiYi a t:iae-?(;overeo. xoi. The 'basement of the building is used
for the storage of iron pap ee ;eel eteeete. The first floore, reachei by four
??etepa located at Cee northern end of ltit* to1.1;111gs, contains the offices of the
chemical section ilt1 rig; aree a illint.e.r-etorage seen on the left. On the
ecoid floor of tee 'i?eitidene: are .Locatte the administrative officea5 and on the
third floor of the beelding a:re eleetric al and ca.rpentry wotecshopss in addition
?to s?torage area-2 ror eareoue Trat3plicillect mater1a.L0
9. TWO bauxite p'W,LSS3 of erseetexmlned make lee in the open. These are used to prees
VitoriNe
'e t* eir.?:beeetteso Theee taieuett,e3 we molded :ieto a shape edmilax to
drinking gleesee :1./8 Koea ie.ter?) ixseze, whiseh are transported by means of a
? conve,yor belt (No. 2e:'c tt,a?ched sketel.) to the cementebl.ending furnaces located
in the shed indeeeeeti neweer ,t0 on tee, eketch.
10 Shed eontaireine tee epee:eel. etereene-beent.lhg l'arrlaCe5 - This buildings, which :La
some x 20 rr_7.? - aa Lt.id.r Uar'1,14C!Ele,, Iseeh evippoxl -4)-14% aw.,
electric; motor,. Ohlt one these furmice, 3,3 in continuous operation at the
present time; the eseteineeg 1_,Lieree are aemoae always inactive because of the lack
of spare parts aro. :Leeelreete, e.5.1Etf...,:rit. power & The barJet te briquettes are
r transported here 4 We (clon.4trjor(No0 ?!.,, on the attached sketch) and the
b5stellt5 are tree,,7peeteet ter the rarpc,q,p-,galge
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ii IIdthg 10 :x:1?3 meters. in size. which houses th to bin machine,
ilLeoeSr shop is a masonry building. approxim. ? x 8 peters in size...
1W- d *Vigeni 111.11,Hr1 J. repaired-
13. Grinder shed. ? ,Ti is a arg biiidLng9 bout x a) meters 1st size, which
'reOnti. cckarete pillar:? This bui.ILding contains row gr indem wi. . at4
?t,,o grind the cement ingots into powder. The ptiLrerived tweed; trans-
ported 1117Lie:rgrourd. to the silos.
Crane - TItess are t)0 X mete.'.^s in are Material. to be tratiTorted
O.eposited here., A travelling crane deposits the material.
.1 the :loft of.the.
3.5%, T-tvl 'X 2C meters in area,s, whicrt Gruow-
wei,i44-71Co' thiAI -the crasier (No. :Lb on, attached. L5k01)0A1) i,e3 balked
16. Cr.isher mitctrita, IABed. to *rash .the sariiioh tppi 1r7.1.6
.a to tne fac....ory-. After the mate:riat has been througti th bating
process? it is oonveyed tio the oracle shed (No, 14)? thewe to the grit:dark
No.. 13)0
17. - t3one t:t metere square, which houses the
tailverizeil and the resultdrz coal dust in used
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coal-grinders. Ti ooal
to fixe the fArnacta3.
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'cft n)perad.ione.5., the entire cent factory wocild toroed t?,o htdown. a?
of tire kt3,..re wortilid in it sell oi;ause damage to t.,le ac tory
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18, To.rtar-cr turraces or Portl.aold cemetit Lacatiev. in the opennO x meters in
19. i1iiog To. TAIJ.sch, ocemenit.,, and :lace ti1ar ni aterf.. 1
20. 1-la.,i,00ry tit* or ;seore,:c meters i.n ariea, i W .?'?a.,..ty eleo-
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tx-i,/,:n power plarAt. Thirl, plant, :i placed in operatioz.-4,i. i thf,t eve:q.t,ot f'allure or
power., flurnished. by the city of Polj
21. Four J.,;ILOS Ahmt 12', meters th height9 nere the maraurat3tured. stored,.
so.me imerte,z-s widen which houses t.tr.ree electr:i.c motorss
1,...1?24t-',:ais1Ix., power for .anctergroubd conveyoz- belts 4.6 Alo tr4.'1p t tA43.1
from .the t?hio pacicir g ttepa-tment,? sA,taatied l'27011ii?cf bhts
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- ? ,22O. .1").a.c),11-,,,,3 and bagip.n.g departanento.- Located in a bullcklim some 30 x. ..eter
This depaz-taielit iiippedeith two bagging maohi.ne,.)s.
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23. ISKe..4: .Loo ail In the ligtxt wing of the pad:tot:nig +JAI bagging.
-Adjkiect to t is a 6111413. off IT*.
2)40 Granin -, Located in. the northern (7) corner of the ?,ompoltf.r. of tacttury
i,w-aaelling; the, rdlway Limn, ThiA rale is usad to unload shipe non ratilvg7
?1..ar27.?:,1,. The crane has a 140,-ton liftlig capacity and runs on, a track whizli.
opproximatel ? meters :long.
25 Raifwy spur, - Connects with the railway station at epteri,- the factory
tc.omprAspei a?Ct he main gate and rum around tho entire perur.eter of the factory
grrywAa&,, aboat.,, 3 metott from the docks.
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