VITKOVICE STEEL WORKS: PRODUCTION/LAYOUT

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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: February 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Vitkovice Steel Works: Production/Layout
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Location
2L "The lfx Steel Works in Vitkovice are located in the eastern part of the town, east
of the Vitkovice-Hrabueka highway. The plant area is 2000 m x 1000 a. On three
sides the area is fenced by iron grating 2.5 a high on three sides and by s. wooden
fence two a high on the northern side.
Installations
3. The New Steel Works comprise the following installations:
(a) Manganese foundry, about 20 x 30 m, situated in the eastern part
of the plant area. -Two furnaces, each yielding five tons of
'mangaa' fo-i,7 every four hours.
Depots for raw material, about 15 x 3 x k m, situated about 20 a
north of the foundry.
Mill for magnesium, about 1? x 20 x 10 (No. 16 on plant diagram).
Foundry (No. 20 on diagram) with two Martin furnaces (Nos, 1 and 2
on plant diagram) and eight Talbot furnaces. The foundry is in the
came building as a depot for fire-clay bricks. The building is
situated about four a east of thr raw material depot and consists
of one floor, 120 x 60 x 30 a. The Pirst Martin furnace produces
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75 tons of steel in seven hours. The second. aartin furnace
produces 150 tons of steel in seven hours. Each Talbot
furnace can produce 225 tons of high quality steel in eight
hours. However, these furnaces are used only when needed.
The majority are idle. The hall for heating the ingots
has eight heating furnaces, which can heat 15 ingots. The
actual new steel works have five crones for 100 tons each,
one crane for 150'tons, three cre.nes for 1.5 tons, tour cranes
for 10 tons. Near the heating furnaces are four cranes for
50 tons.
Old rolling mills (No. 33 on plant diagram), situated four a
east of the foundry. size about 60 z 30 x 30 it. ?quipped
.with one rolling 'chair' with five profiles; one hydraulic
shears.
(f) ;few rolling mills, about 60 x kO x 30. llot completed z:s of
July 1953. No machinery instal:.:.
(g) Pumping station, 30 x 20 x 12 m, situated 20 youth of the old
rolling wills.
(h) railway freight. station for the New :steel Works. :-ituated
south of the plant.
(i) Re.ilvay line running from the Old Steel.'",orl;s of Vitkovice
to the northern part of the plant.
(j) Transportation department for the entire national enterprise.
Situated 'behind' the VitkoviceLlirabxV'Xa highway.
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Power
14. wrr-p2ant receives electric power frola the electric power plants of the First of
May, in Moravska Ostrava.
Tranlrpbrtstiou. _
5. The Nev and the Old Steel Works at Vitkovice each has its own transportation
system: a'narrow-gauge railway. There'are three locomotives.
Row Vhtcria7.s
6. "We New :;teal Works receives::
Iron ore from the U:'."R, , wcdcn, 'olend and .yowl:i:..
",crap iron mostly from ')=ollnd and from Brno rud Pilsen in Czechoslovakia.
Manganese are from the U;',::13 and :iweden.
Dolomite from ?ola.nd.
Chromium, shipped in boxes 100 x 60 x 6o cm from the port of Trieste.
Bach box holds 150 hg of chromium.
'Silicon, shipped in bores 100 x 60 x 60 cm, weighing 150 kg. Origin
unknown to me.
iroduction
7. 'Tack'"month the factory produces:
(a.) Three large pieces (tivei~hing about '! 0 ton,.) -which .re later used
for the production of cranksh-.rf't::.
(b) 9000 ingots for the froductic.- of, rea.ils (:n:,c.+ i _ (.) .
(c) 9000 ingots for the production of iron ..hest. (mok~.el oi' mli :ture wi).
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(c) -U00 ar.~ored plates, 150 x 110 x 35 cm, model of the mixture 7.
(-. 20 ingot,. ,, high quality steel for the production of axles;
mixture f J_
ingo-4s f p oduction of rails.
8. ?liigh quality ~-eta r sI Iy av not been available for the production o high ] n January _uulity s ee._.
195 3 th ,percentage of rejects in the rolling mills was 451-' l al the
foremen Tiere trans:k r ed elsewhere.
` . The entire uroduc {{ on of ::arils is exported to Korea. The 1srge axles and :>iri~.
propellers arc co. feted in the Old ,teelevorks and then shipped to ::ziitzeri;..na.. The
ingots for iron sn' ets are used or ;;aecnoslovak needs. The iron plate-- are
ex sorted to the The ingots of' high quality steel are trans-sorted to the black-
ssmith section of t e t.l d ,teel works in Vitkovice.
10. In the first six vontihs of 1953 the Five-Year Economic 'Program us.:; fulfil1_ec1
4.bzenteejs)u of wor) crs P mounted to 30;A.
rlnini. s trat ic;n
1l. 'x he nrgcs of the 14ec~? : tees !.,corks is (.,nu) duller, as C aunist, about 1'(4 cni~ tall
with e_arc hair. He all lays *%rrars glasses.
l2. "'1"he proc!u:?ti4n z. per 1:,
K LLII ('u nu) '.FatOpC']C, _.' ,".6)iWllllai8t, ;bout 3.63 cry:; taf!s or' , hon l0 are 'eonen. About 1&0 politico.). pri3oners :L: es ''he
niakltnry :c;ide y s'?t ~'r .Gal:: unload rail y :Freight cars. '.:'here were ztbout 50 J
brigadiers in the n)::6 About 20 brigadiers from other facteries worked for :;ix
months date not Eire / in the New teal Works as voluntary brigad.c . There ,^ere no
soviet er[~171oyeez.
lit. `.kyesge net monthly salarica in the new currency i ost `0 ??;ty 53
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Cir,eneral. worker -1.500 Cro'.'ns
aorkisag 2or sap or
old master -2200 Crolans
Young enginLcr -1600 Cro*.vns
altiarentice - 150 Crowns plus food s.nd loigin,
urnace ~orkex -2500 Crowns
fdlrst helper near
furnaces -18CU Crowns
and helper near
urne,ces -1500 Crowns
Crane driver -i6oo crowns
Director -3000 Crowns
Female employee in
the technical
otficea 700 Crow'ina
15 ? "'A typical foundry worker away corn 1600 Croi..ns net per month but have to work every
;undnyw ''s'he discount: acid deductions) for this :iorker may come to 1.96 Kco per month,
plus l'`.s of groc s sa.lerJ l,for }t0H fee.,. (obligatory col .unir;t union for warkcra). fifty
per cent extra to paid' 1;cr ',unsay yr rk. Ti' the first :Voundry worker near the l'urnrccrs
exceeds his nora he earn as mucn -is 10( Kcs extra pc-r month.
J. "''Meat of the ui v'ker $~a in privz+.te 's'he CP members et :tats in
g- the per)
lining ripe.rterz of th ?;tcr_). ;desk:,. t?:u::t of the vo1?? crs~ bring their meals froz hc. e.
h r cy fete buy the cold IDteri? s in the i acto?ry cr'nteen.
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17. ?. r.d are tvo hours ax 5011ticr1 ed4cxtisn s *t!k, sftrr tv*rk rstvo aAya. The
cawing at,rkers . aa+j ? e d.14g *hoer, of the op reesi're.epecis . tbr.+ a--oath courses
&t isrseslcs'. ?1~trx~ai~ . t fter that pr psretion they beoe a p*11ticAl instructors r.WOg
the, vwkere.
18. *'Thi vorkers arp not i terrrted iu their jobs. There.- Irt lerv- `t'+crceatdge of
absenteeism. They w4rkcr,c were infuriated by the come y rtforwj' my
the xelc3.i rog 'fords' 1. vftcn reed "ti-cehrw+iriet SAode*s,
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19? "`' ;getekeepct r a writh pistol --sx+e pasted cheer the tntmace gets. ht ai+ght tv)
seoabere of the v*rkf--v' a;i.liti* gasr5 the Bite. -Ihey -ere -rsed with pistols.. ':flri'
r"nadrxys I - al,vr qs sev; -the the, file-tt hti ; gpsriL? abSt.
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