THE PRODUCTION OF ALUMINUM AT ELEKTROCHEMISCHES KOMBINAT RITTERFELD

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany DATE DISTR. 20 August 1952
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SUBJECT The Production of Aluminum at Elektrochemisches NO, OF PAGES t
Kombinat Bitterfeld
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The Elektrochemisches Kombinat Bitterfeld, formerly SAG Kaustik and
handed back by the Russians to the DDR government as a VEB, has been producing
aluminum at a rate of 15,000 tons per annum since late December 1951.
This production is being achieved in the old aluminum works which had been
dismantled and have been recently reactivated. The works have a yearly
capacity of 20,000 tons,
The main bottleneck in the production of aluminum is the current shortage
of argillaceous earth Tonerde) which, before the war, was supplied by the
Mannheim firm Giolini.
4. Research is in progress under the direction of Dr. Schulze, head of the
Bitterfeld inorganic laboratory, to produce the required argillaceous earth
from raw clay 2 Such a process would have the advantage of using the superfluous
chlorine produced in Bitterfeld, The process itself is, however, extremely
expensive and so far no satisfactory solution has been found to the technical
problems involved. Bitterfeld is to receive, in June 1952, a government
grant of DM 1,000,000 (Ost) for the financing of further experirnentsB
On. 18 May 1.952, there were practically no Russians left in Bitterfeld subsequent
to the dissolution of its status as a SAG. The Russian director himself,.
F8do-rov, was still there but was due to depart before the beginning of dune.
25X1 Comment. The ABC der Deutschen Wirtschaft, 1949 lists the Gebrueder
Giulini GmbH at Alfonsstrasse 2, Lu.dwigshafen/Rhein, as producers of Ton rdee
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