USSR STEEL PLANTS MEET 1949 GOALS; STALINO PLANT ADOPTS NEW COKE

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USSR STEEL PLANTS MEET 1949 GOALS;
STALINO PLANT ADOPTS NEW COKE
umbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.7
Toward the end of December, man., major metallurgical plants reported
completion of both the 1949 year plan ar:d he -:urrent Five-Year Plan, an!,
in general, production figures t,pped l';2 bevel::.
In Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, 00 pla:.ts and mire administraticns of the Ministry
of the Metallurgical Industry have e:mlictei 151+9 plan ahead of schedule. (1)
The Nikopol' pipe Plant completed the 1'x49 nice-production plan on ?U December.
Production has increased 150 percent over the prewar level. (2) The Novo-Moskovsk
Tin-Plate Rolling Plant has fulfilled the 191+; pr;duct.ion plan and has increased
output 20 percent over 1948. Additional tors of thin sheet and roofing iron will
be produced by the end of the year. The plant is now operating at a profit. (3)
The Dnepropetrovsk Steel Structures Plant imeni Molotov completed the Five-
Year Plan for output of finished goods and for gross production on 29 December and
at the same time completed the 1949 year plan. This year the plant has produced
as much in struct` i products as It did in 1=110, and in both 1944 and 1945 to-
gether. The plant has successfully fulfilled the order for steel structures for
the high buildings being built in Moscow and als: started production of walking ex-
cavators this year. (4)
The Metallurgical Plant imeni Dzerzhinskiy in Dneprodzerzhinsk has achieved
a coefficient for capacity utilization of the blast furnace of 0.82 as compared with
the norm of 0.84. For 11 months of 1549, the coefficient has averaged 0.88 as com-
pared with the 1948 coefficient of 0.91. The average recovery of steel per square
meter of furnace hearth was increased by 500 kilograms this year (5) and a record
high yield of 6.35 tons per square meter was achieved in furnace No 3 of the open-
hearth shop. The norm for steel recovery is :.75 tons Furnace No 3 has been
operated for 1103 melts without major repair, and furnaces No 8 and 11 have been
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operated for 400 and 380 melt., respective,, , instead " the norm of 250 melts. (6)
In 11 months of 1949, the hourly productivity of the rolling mills increased
13 percent. (5), As of 31 December, the plant was producing :oiled metal in excess
of the 1949 plan. (7) The plant's rolling mills have also been fulfilling orders
for steel for the construction of Moscow buildings. Fort;, carloads of rolled steel
from the plant arrived in Moscow on 29 December. (8)
In Stalino Oblast, the Stalin Metallurgical Plant imeni Stalin (direc,or,
K. Baranov) has completed the 1949 plan for the entire metallurgical cycle. This
year, the plant has produced 27.6 percent mere pig 1__n, 22.1 more steel, and 32
percent more rolled metal than in 1948. (9) In 11 months of 1919, the plant in-
creased output 32.7 percent over 1948, includ`.cg 51.3 percent for smelting pig
iron, 17.9 percent for steel smelting, and 32 o for rolled metal production, while
labor productivity increased 24.6 percent. In 1948, the plant incurred deficits
and needed state subsidies, whereas in 10 months of 1949, it realized almost 5
million rubles in accumulations above plan. By 5 December, steelworkers and the
"400" rolling mill had achieved the 1950 production level. (10)
In the open-hearth shop, steelworkers are now obtaining an average of 5.05
tons of steel per square meter of furnace hearth, 700 kilograms above the yield
planned for 1950. (11) The shop's schedule fDr 'ompletion of one melt calls for
9 hours, but high-speed workers are completing melts in 7-8 hours. (9)
The plant's successes have been the result of improved technology introduced
in 1949. Following introduction of automatic control in the operation of blast
furnaces No 1 and 3, the regulation of the temperature of the hot blast in furnace
No 2 was made automatic this year. This furnace was equipped with all necessary
control and measuring Instruments. Neutralization of the ores helped to improve
furnace operation and to increase the quality of the pig iron. in the second half
of 1949, with the aid of the Stalino Poke-Chemical Plant, blast-furnace workers
developed a coke from a 5-component charge without using Type "K" (coking) coal. (10)
The plant was the first in Stalin Oblast, after ti.e coke-chemical plant, to
replace scarce coking coals with gas coals, and the workers have achieved uniform
and highly-productive operations on the new _"ke, is fact which is of tremendous
significance to the state. As of 25 November, the ;lent had achieved a coefficient
of 0.96 for utilization of blast-furnace rapacity, as compared with the planned co-
efficient of 0.99. The workers have ale developed a new meth-,d of repairing the
Cowper stoves whereby repairs are completed in ? weeks instead of the usual 2
months. (12)
Open-hearth furnaces No 3 and 4 have been made completely automatic. A sus-
pension roof (rasporno-podvesnoy svod) of refractory material was installed in No
4 and the furnace run between repairs Increased by 150 melts. Repairing the
furnaces with dolomite is now done by machine instead of by hand. The machine
was designed by plant engineers and was built in the plant. A new method of cooling
the parts of the open-hearth furnaces is now being used for the first time. These
parts often burned out from the effects of the extremely hard water, and much time
was consumed in replacing them. In addition, while these parts were being replaced,
the furnace brickwork was often damaged beeau_e of mechanical defects or because
water had fallen on it. The caissons (kesson) of the furnace had to be replaced once
or twice during each furnace run, taking 4-6 hours to complete the replacement. With
the new cooling system, the caissons are replaced only once during every two or three
furnace runs when cold repairs are made. The new - oling method has also made it
possible to replace the arched anterior furna_e walls with nonarched walls, thus in-
creasing their durability. It has been found practical to eliminate. the one or two
hot repairs during the course of the furnace run, and this also has resulted in a
sharp increase in the productivity of the furnace installations.
New technology has also been introduced in the rolling mills. Both soaking pits
in the section rolling shop have been converted from solid fuel to gas for heating,
thus improving the heating of the metal and the productivity of the mills, and the
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soaking pits no longer constitute a t;tt1 re= i;, the soaking pits re-
tarded the operation of the blooming :ail: ?Lc t: of the pits was qu1 kly
burned through and needed repair. Engineer ((cdr?c p.,-posed that the chemot--
brick be replaced in the arch and wall; -;. -lie pit:: proposal was put into
effect and the durability of the pits gray .i_'t_;'?_tair of tt:e pits is
now a rare occurrence in the large-sects-a ;n6 soaking of this- in;ot6
no longer delays operations. Shop prcdur-t-_.y tally !=eased.
Another problem faced by the plant sr__ . ~,.d w-,v t:_ increase the yteld
of finished metal from each ingot. Aster r: i-w_:ig ?z]1 the paiblliaies of the
open-hearth ship; the foundry, and the large-:e:cFen ro:l:::r [?llp, It was deeded.
to increase the weieLt of the ingot frcc 't,-) kilograms. The
profs-e of the ingot was also changed, thereby rcking it p_sible to save u,, to
40 kilograms of metal pe ingot and to obtain ;r,e addiiizn, i ingot from each melt,
(10)
On 28 December, the Yenakiyevo Netalla*g:cn': Sts-in: ''L1ast, completed
the 1949 plan for the entire metallurgical cycle. '3) he iig:.esc recovery of
steel for the plant is now 9.08 tons per square meter of furnace ;:earth as compared
with the planned 5.11 tons. (14)
A worker at the Makeyevka Metallurgical Plant meni Kirov has achieved a co-
efficient of 0.84 for capacity utilization of a blast furnace, as compared with the
planned 0.92. This is the best coefficient for blast-furnace utilization yet
achieved in Stalino Oblast. (6)
The "Azovstall" Plant, also in Stalino Oblast, completed the Five-Year Plan
for volume of production on 30 November (15) end b', ;1 December was producing
rolled metal i;, excess of the 1949 year plan. (7) A new norm for smelting has been
adopted in the plant. The former record melts of e-9 tons per square meter of fur-
nace hearth in 14 hours have now become the norm f;.r every steelworker. All bri-
gades are obtaining at least 9 tors per square meter of hearth. (16) The postwar
record for volume of steel obtained per square meter is r.jw 11.4 t-ns, achieved
recently by one worker. (12)
On 3 December, the Metallurgical Plant imeni Vor>shiiv in Vcroshilovsk com-
pleted the Five-Year Plan for volume productim.. Since the beginning of 1949,
the plant has increased metal smelting G''. ', per"nt, r;a ant.eved the 1950 level
for smelting pig iron, and has saved 4,0-2,(60 ruLlcs (17)
The "Zaporozhstall" Plant has c^mplrt a the 1an fr ti:e entire metal-
lurgical cycle and now exceeds the prewar level in every phase of the cycle. (18)
The Stalingrad "Krasnyy Oktyabr'" Metallu_,;ica1 F:ant had r-rpleted the 1949 plan
for the entire metallurgical cycle by 26 Dccembe: (1',) and the Taganrog Metallurgi-
cal Plant, Rostov Oblast, has completed the 194; gross-production plan. (20)
In the Urals, enterprises of "Glavuralmet" /ain Administration of the Ural
Metallurgical Industry?7 completed the 1949 plan f.,:? the entire metallurgical cycle
on 28 December. Output of steel, pig iron, and rolled metal was considerably above
the level planned for 1950. In 11 months, these znterprlses saved nearly 20 million
rubles above plan by reducing production costs. (21)
The Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, Chelyabinsk Oblast, has exceeded the
1949 plan for the entire metallurgical cycle, including output of steel, pig iron,
rolled iron, and coke and the mining of iron care. (22) Electrification of intra-
plant transport at the comL .ie has proved to be a significant step in improving Its
operations. It was of particular importance in enabling the combine, to a large
degree, to overcome winter operating difficulties. The combine has now completed
the Five-Year Plan both as to volume and rate of production f steel, rolled metal,
coke, and ore mining, and expects to complete the Five-Year Plan for smelting pig
iron by the end of December 1949. In fact, this year, the blast furnaces will have
produced as much pig irun as was planned in the Five-Year Plan for 1950, which is
even more significant in light :f the fact that the plan called for greater furnace
capacity in 1950.
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In 1948, blast-furnace workers achiev,.1 ..;effic.sat of 0.90 for capacity
utilization of the furnaces. That is. con of pig Iron was produced for every
0.90 cubic meter of furnace capacity. The planned coefficient for 1948 was 0 95
and the pledged coefficient, 0.91. This year has seen even further improvement.
With the planned coefficient at 0.87, in October 1949 workers achieved a coeffi-
cient of 0.85.
Steel production has also increased. in 1949, the planned yield of steel
for each square meter of hearth of an open-l.arth furna:e was 5.95 tors. The
Magnitogorsk steelworkers in the second half of 194, brought the yield to 6.03
tons, and this year, in October, a new high of 6.92.6.95 tons wee reached. (23)
The Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant imeni Stalin, Chelyabinsk Oblast, has com-
pleted the Five-Year Plan for volume of open-hearth stA"l production. (24) The
plant had completed the 1949 plan by 21 December. (25) The year 1949 has been a
period of wide-scale mechanization of steel-smelting processes and rolling-mill
production at the Zlatoust plant. A new structure for open-hearth roofs of heat-
resisting and chromomagnesite brick has been developed and put into service, in-
creasing the furnace run between repairs as much as six to eight times the former
run. (26) The plant has exceeded its pledge to increase the progressive norm for
recovery of steel per square meter of open-hearth furnace hearth to 5 tons. In
1948, the progressive norm of 4.5 tons was adopted at the conference of metallur-
gists of the Urals and the East. In 1949, the plant has increased the average
progressive norm to 5.1 tons. (27)
The plant's supply of scrap shouLd soon be Improved. The "Vtormet" (scrap
metal) Plant in Chelyabinsk Oblast is taking measures to improve its operations
after being criticized for delays in supplying repr-:cessea metal scrap to the
Zlatouct and other plants in the oblast. The plant's directors and the directors
of the oblast office of "Vtormet" were called to a conference with workers in
Chelyabinsk metallurgical enterprises, at which rnference? concrete measures for
improvement were decided upon. (28)
Alsc in the southern Urals, the "_hr_?,r_rt l' r:n1 Asha metal'.'.rgical plants
have completed she 1949 plan. (25) The Br-l?retrk Y?>-Il'?"rgical Combine, Bashkir
ASSR, completed the 1949 plan for 'he entire rr dti:-`.-,n -n :6 December.
This year, the combine has topped all Its rr.ductian records in steel,
pig iron, and rolled metal. (29)
The Novo-Tagil'skiy Metallurgical .,%P:-di vsl: U-last, completed the
1949 plan for the entire met,r1lurgical r. December (8) and for gress-
production on 18 December. (30) The plant's bl~ct-fur:.ace workers are now obtain-
ing one ton of pig iron per 0.83 cubic mete: f b1:rs'-.furnace capacity as compared
with the coefficient of 0.94 held at the beginning :f 1949. (31)
The Nizhniy-Tagil Metallurgical Plan'. achieved :; coefficient for capacity
utilization of the blast furnace of 0.90 in November, but a leading brigade has
since obtained an average coefficient of 6.67 rec :?d for the plant. The blast
furnace shop is now producing 20-30 percent above the plan (30).
The Gur'yevsk Metallurgical Plant, Kemerovo Oblast, completed the 1949 plan
on 21 December (32) and the Kuznetsk Metallurgical C-mbtne in Stalinsk completed
the 1949 plan for steel smelting on 27 December. The combine's steel production
has substantially increased over 1948. The average recovery of steel per square
meter of hearth has been increased 320 kilograms over last year. (3,--)
The Kazakh Metallurgical Plant, Temir-Tau, has completed the 1949 plan for
the entire metallurgical cycle. Production of commercial rolled metal has increased
50 percent over 10I.9 and steel output has a-e_ increased substantially over last
year's output. (34) The plant's rolling-mill workers east rolled an average of
620-625 ingots per shift during the pre-October -..apetitien, the highest record
yet achieved at the plant. (35)
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The Aktyubinsk Ferroalloy Plant, Kazakh .3SH, completed the 1, 9 smelting
plan on 2 December. By October, the plant had exceeicd the 1950 production
level, and this year has saved more than 5 million rubles. (36)
The Uzbek Metallurgical Plant (director, 1. Mukhamedov) in Begovat com-
nteted the 1949 plan for steel output and rolled-n,tal utput on 25 December. (37)
In 8 months of 1949, the plant produced as :ouch metal as was smelted during
all of 191t8. The plant has attained the 1c produ:t.or. level in all phases of
metallurgical operation. Rolling-ni11 rr(.;.:?:. mastered production of 35
different profiles, enabling them to increa-: roductlvit_y and to decrease pro-
duction costs by 50 percent. The continued Improvement in work meth,ls will
soon enable the plant to operate at the fu]'. pl ?.;.ed capacity Uzteke who were
formerly employed in constructing the plan'. are now working as foremen, rolling-
mill operators, steelworkers, etc. Some 957 persons ?f local origin have been
trained in these mass professions. (38)
In Moscow, the "Sere i molot" Plant has exseede_ the pledges made by its
workers in honor of Stalin's birthday, 21 December. The plant has produced 15
million rubles' worth of additional production instead of 14 million, smelted
8,000 tons of steel above the 1949 plan instead of 6,500 tons, and obtained 7.96
tons of steel per square meter of furnace hearth instead of 7.5 as pledged (30)
The plant has also produced 6,500 tons of rolled metal above the 1949 plan. (40)
The recovery of steel per square meter of furnace hearth for the plant as a whole
during 1949 increased 17 percent over 1048. (41) other cec~rds are being set at
the plai.t. According to the schedu~e, the 750" mill should roll 59 ingots per
ho j, whereas leading rolling mill onerators have rolled as many as 80 per hour.
The "Elektrostal "Plant in Moscow Oblast ~ampleted the 1949 plan for the
entire metallurgical cycle on 27 December. (43) Smelting of metal at the plant
has increased 48 percent over the prewar level. (44) The plant's leading shop,
the first steel-smelting shop, has exceeded the prewar level for steel output by
148 percent, operating with the same number of furnace= and the same capacity for
each furnace as in the prewar period. The h ,p has also saved ninny tons of tung-
sten, molybdenum, and nickel by decreasing production Jef'r'.s and reducing con-
sumption of these alloys. (45)
The Leningrad "Lentrutlit" (l,ip?-c ,s ti.^.g) Plant. riret in the city to produce
cast-iron tubing for the Leningrad Subway, now ;nachiae processes, as well as casts,
tubings. Production experts rerentl: prepared a device. wh+-t; facilitates the
processing of tubing for wheels 6 meters in diame}r_r. (4b) Mikhail Stepanovich
Savin, known as one of the city's best molders and l-,ng asscciatel with the "Lent-
rublit" Plant, has made a radical :Lange in the te-hnoingy of casting iron tubing
for the large sewer collector which was laid in. Leningrad_ The new method in-
creased labor productivity 300 percent and saved SO percent on metal and molding
materials. Savin is now designing malde fir east tubing for the Leningrad Subway.
(47)
The "Krasnyy metallurg" Plant, Liyepaya, Latvian SSR, has increased the average
recovery of steel per square meter of furnace hearth in the open-hearth shop. The
yield is now 5 tons per square meter for the plant as compared with the norm of 4
tons. Each melt is completed in at least 6 hour:. (48)
The Mogilev Pipe-Casting Plant, Belorussian SSR, completed the 1949 plan on
14 December. Production of rolled metal, roofing tin, and water-main pipe for con-
struction projects has increased 50 percent over 1?L8. (49)
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1. Kraanyy Flot, No 309, 31 Dec 49
2. Leninskoye Znamya, No 252, 23 Dec 49
3. Krasnaya Zvezda, No 298, 18 Dec 49
4. Izvestiya, No 309, 31 Dec 49
5. Krastiyy Flot, No 292, i1 Dec 49
6. Pravda Ukrainy, No 294, 15 Dec .9
7. Pravda Uk:rainy, No 308, 31 Dec 49
8. Krasnyy Flot, No 308, 30 Dec 49
9. Trud, No 309, 31 Dec 49
10. Pravda Ukrainy, No 305, 28 Dec 49
11. Komsomol'skaye Pravda, No 306, 28 Dec 49
12. Pravda Ukrainy, No 277, 25 Nov 49
13. Pravda Ukrainy, No 306, 29 Dec 49
14. Krasnyy Flot, No 295, 15 Dec 49
15. Pravda Ukrainy, No 282, 1 Dec 49
16. Leningradskaya Pravda, No 284, 3 Dec 49
17. Pravda Ukrainy, No 291, 11 Dec 49
18. Vechernyaya Moskva, No 308, 30 Dec 49
19. Krasnyy Flot, No 307, 29 Dec 49
20. Izvestiya, No 302, 23 Dec 49
21.. Pravda Ukrainy, No 363, 29 Dec 49
22. Moskovskiy Bol'shevik, No 307, 30 Dec 49
23. V Pomoshch' FZMK, Vol X, Nc 24, Der 49
24. Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, No 234, 30 Nov 49
25. Leningradskaya Pravda, No 299, 21 Dec 49
26. Trud, No 299, 20 Dec 49
27. Trud, No 300, 21 Dec 49
28. Trud, No 285, 3 Dec 49
29. Pravda, No 363, 29 Dec 49
30. Krasnyy Flot, No 298, 18 Dec 49
31. Leningradskaya Pravda, no 293, 14 Dec 49
32. Izvestiya, No 307, 29 Dec 49
33. Izvestiya, No 306, 28 Dec 49
34. Krasnyy Flot, No 302, 2? Dec 49
35. Kazakhatanskaya Pravda, No 247, 20 Dec 49
36. Krasnaya Zvezda, No 284, 2 Dec 49
37. Pravda Vostoka, No 255, 28 Dec 49
38. Pravda, No 360, 26 Dec 49
39. Moskovskiy Bo1'shevik, No 299, 21 Dec 49
40. Zarya Vostoka, No 249, 2] Dec 49
41. Moskovskiy Komsomolets, No 154, 21 Dec 49
42. Vechernyaya Moskva, No 280, 26 Dec 49
43. Trud, No 305, 27 Dec 49
44. Moskovskiy Bo1'shevik, No 297, 18 Dec 49
45. Moskovskiy Bolshevik, No 306, 29 Dec 49
46. Leningradskaya Pravda, No 291, 11 Dec 49
47. Leningradskaya Pravda, No 27ii, 26 Nov 49
48. Krasnoya Zvezda, No 292, 11 Dec 49
49. Leningradskaya Pravda, No 94, 15 Dec 49
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