METALLURGISTS STRESS WASTE PRODUCTS UTILIZATION; SCRAP PROGRAMS LAG

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• Publication Date: August 22, 1950
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CLASSIFICATION SECRET SEC REV.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Ecorcm IroD., Steelj scrap metal
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily ar,3 eer -e.=_?ciy newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED -USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 26 Nov 1949 ^61 May 1950
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THIS OOCU MINT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING INC NATIONAL DERNGH
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT GO
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OF ITS COETIHTE IN ANT MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PINSON IS PRO.
HIlITOD BY LAW. RIPSODUCTION OF THIS FORM II PRONINITEO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949 - 1950
DATE DIST. Pa Aug 1950
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
_META_;lURGISIS STRESS WASTE PRODUCTS UTILIZATION;
SCRAP FROGRA.MS LLG~
aAi.PtoADS STEP UP ScRA.P Sri:.-PNEivr Gudok, .No 56, :10 May 50
This year. railroad ;:'a vapor t mast. supply 28 percent more metal scrap
and fe::nut me'.-al wast'e then it.. did in 1949, a program which is entirely
pox=able to mee':.. 7n ma'??y railroad -systems and plants there is a consider-
able ~ua^_ttt1 cf rolling sc?ock ah=^.?h has been removed from inventory. There
are 700 such ra.lroaa cex_ on the Latvian Railroad System alone. Rolling
.o?::k remc ed f-cm i vent?ory sho-jld be dismantled and that which cannot be
used san'. to met.allurgicaL plan::?s. However, this work is very poorly organ..,
zeu. I:. rsi:iroas :: a? repair plant., and in wheel shops, there are many dis-
c srded wheel pair 2 welch should be dismantled and sent to the metallurgical
irdua+ry This procedure has not yet been set up, The removal of ruined
bridge girders from rivers also is proceeding intolerably slowly.
Collecting the scrap is only half the program, since collected scrap
must also be carefully sorted. In 1949, out of all the scrap and ferrous
metal waste collected on the railroads, not more than 12-15 percent was re-
tained for use on the spo*.., There is no doubt that considerably more could
be used if a more economical attitude toward the matter prevailed. During
1949, the North Caucasus System used 1,596 tons of scrap, and the Western
System manufactured 1,256 tone of track parts from scrap as well as 1,734
tons of spare part.5 for rolling stock. An anticreeper made from scrap is
52 percent cheaper than the plant-manufactured product.
GORKIY OBLAST METAL WASTES UNUSED Trud, No 122, 2k May 50
All metallurgical plants in Gorky Oblast- should take note of the ini-
tiative of the Kulebaki. Plant, in making use of its huge slag dump. The
plant,ls director's had pile drivers and cranes installed at the dumps and
obta.ed 25:000 tons of metallic charge material from the waste. This also
meant a saving of nearly 1,500 railroad cars which would have been used to
bayl into the plant that volume of metallic charge. Facts show that other
plant- in the oblast,hewever, have not followed this excellent example.
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the. Tykes Plant- he dumps with thousands of rons of metallic wastes, but
northing i_ done to recover them. At the tame time, the plant almost every day
receives carloads of scrap, while itao?.m resources are not being utilized.
the "Krasnove Sormovo" Plant.
A.'t the "Levinka"y dump, even good, unused metal 'ia dumped, including alloy dteel
pressed fagots, armat?u e. and ingots. Perfectly new dump--car parts
and other good p3rts are lying around the damp. The "Sormovo" Plant has four
mechcce s each capable of reprocessing B tons of steel cuttings per shift, but
only *.wo are In opera+?io:- Drivitskiy, repreeent.ative of the "Vtormet" (Sec-
o dary Meal) Office repoztz that one of these machines in the shop which pro-
duces tractor spare oasts cannot be operated because cf scarcity of parts.
The govs:rnment has fixed the respo:>>ibi=ity for the operation of the metal-
lu.rgical stockyard directly upon the deputy directors of enterprises. Munin,
de?e'aty dire:: for of the "Sormovo" Plant., has shown himself unwilling to cooper
at,T. wben +h? ;,ibject Is brought up. - S. L,~-nonov, chief of the Metals Depart-
me" Gorkiy Office of "Glavsnab" (Main Supply Administration), Ministry of
Tra -spar t .i thine Building
ARMENIAN SCRAF RESOURCES WASTED ??- Kommunist, No Nt, 8 Apr 50
The collection and primary processing of metal scrap and cuttings is
not well organized in the Armenian SSR. Enterprises have not yet organized
the crushing and fagoting of steel cuttings, with the result that much of
thins type of scrap is lost or has become useless through lack of proper care.
Tne "Avt.odet?a.l.l" plant is scheduled in 1950 tc deliver to "Glavchermet" hun-
dred, of tons of steel c,1' tinge, and other Armenian plants are scheduled to
do likewise. The Armenian base and Tbilisi Office of the Ministry of the
Meta.liargic:al Indu7,.ry for the collection of metal wastes must organize in
yerevst a cen+selized crushing and fa` Ling service, both for varied steel
?.t.r..i.ngs and for eheet?.st?eel The metal wastes which are dumped on
tn. outskirts of the city shn .ta "e collected? The Executive Committee of
the Yerevan, City Soviet. o` Worker'.a Deputies should et? up a special base
of r, .he "Glavchermet." expre.ssiy iof accepting production wastes from plants
and enterprise_. The collection, storage, and sorting of metal scrap should
also be correctly organized, so that alloy--steel cuttings will not be mixed
in storage with common grades of steel.. Otherwise, metallurgical plants
will have defective production in lasing mixed scrap and much valuable metal
and alloys will be irreparably lost.. The "Avtodetal"' Plant, for example,
processes alloy steel exclusively, and the cuttings from it should not be
mixed with the carbon steels of other plants. it is up to the Armenian
base and the Tbilisi Office, responsible under the Ministry of the Metal-
lurgical Industry for collection and processing scrap, to initiate the or-
ganization of waste-product utilization and the supply of full-value raw
material to metallurgical plants - A Mardzhanyan, chief engineer,
"Avtodetal" Plant
URGES INCREASED SCRAP COLLECTION IN GEORGIA -?? Zerya Vostoka, No 231,
26 Nov 49
The Georgian Office of "Soyuzut?il"' (All-Union office for the Procure-
ment, Reprocessing, and Supply of Usable Scrap and Industrial Waste Products
for Industry and Export) is conducting a :crap-metal collection in small en-
terprises, institutions, and from the population in the republic's cities.
"Teekavshiri" is handling scrap collection in the villages through its re-
gional network of procurement offices,.
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In recent years, the republic has been fulfilling the quarterly plans for
collection and shipment of scrap and waste ferrous metals, but has not yet fully
utilized all possibilities for this collection. "Tsekavshiri," the "Gornyak"
Plant Machine-Building Plant, and the Transcaucasus Railroad System have fal-
lectiop goals for 9 months of 1949. Directors of en-
len shotL. of `h= z crap -,.o.l_
terprises should take the individual responsibility for the collection and sort-
ing of scrap and waste products. -- I, Mikeladze, chief, industrial division,
State Planning Commission, Council of Ministers Georgian SSR
KIRGIZ MEETS SCRAP PLAN -- Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, No 91, 7 May 50
The first-quarter plan for the collection and delivery of scrap metal was
fulfilled 121.8 percent in the Kirgiz SSR. The plan was exceeded in Frunze
Oblast, where there is the greatest volume of metal waste, Dzhalal-Abad and
Osh .blasts, however, fulfilled only 26.3 percent of the plan.
SCRAP CENTERS ADVERTISE SERVICES -- Kommunist Tadzhikistana, No 38, 22 Feb 50
The procurement centers of the Tadzhik Consumers' Union will collect the
following items from enterprises, organizations, kolkhozes, and the public:
rags, bones, worn-out equipment, papers, oldr hoted automobilestires,ogaloshes
and other used rubber products, glassware,
ators, and other nonferrous metal scrap, The waste collection is registered on
specific documents and payment is made through the State Bank in sums up to 100
rubles in cash. Addresses of procurement centers; Stalinabad, "Tadzhikkoopsyrlye"
Base, Krasnoarmeyskaya, 9; in rayons -- at rural consumers' societies, rayon pro-
curement offices of "rayon" and rayon consumers' unions. -- Advertisement
Sovetskaya Estoniya, No 45, 21 Feb 50
purchasing centers of "Glavuti1 sYr'Ye" (Main Administration
Scrap and Industrial Waste Products buy
copper, brass, iron, cast iron, horsehair, etc. Address; Tallin, Kopli, 4,
Kingiseppa 77, Padliskiy maantee 48, and Kauba 1; Nymms,
Khaapsalu., Kar'ya 24, ? - Advertisement
URGES EFFICIENT FUEL UTILIZATION -- Gudok, No 65, 31 May 50
In view of the fact that the so-called intermediate product of, coal bene-
ficiation, that is, lumps of coal and gangue stuck together, has pa ercent,
con
tent of up to 10-12 percent and an ash content as high as 28-35 p ,
extremely unprofitable to ship, especially over long distances. This boiler
fuel should be used either for the coke by-products plants and metallurgical
enterprises themselves, or for supplying heat and power plants, steam-boiler
installations, locomotives, and other power-producing installations located
directly in the area of the beneficiating plant,
The Stalino Oblast beneficiating plants connected with coke by-products
plants produce daily as much as 2,400 tons of the intermediate product. Of
this quantity, however, only 3-4 percent is utilized on the spot. In the ma-
jority of cases, all the rest is sent to consumers outside the oblast limits:
Pod oth farofrom, Voronezh, As Odessa, a Zhitomir,
, a huge kn beroof railroad cards iseusedints
inefficiently,.
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The Makeyevka, Zhdanov, Stalino, Kramatorsk, Konstantin.ovka, and Yenaki-
yevo metallurgical plants receive 1,300 tons of noncoking coals from
mines of the Stalinugol and Artemugoly rombines.
in the metallurgical plants of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Thus, many metal-
lurairal plants choose the line of least resistance. Instead of burning the
intermediate product in boiler installations with hand-operated and r?achan"cas.
grates, they burn other types of fuel in these grates, particularly coal tail-
ings which are also a product of a beneficiating plant btlt. have an ash content
only half as great,. Certainly, the coal tailings could be freed for other pur-
poses.
Before the war, the Zhdanov, Kramatorsk, Makeyevka, and other metallurgi-
cal plants used the intermediate product to a large extent in a mixture with
tailings and coke fines,. At present, however, the plants do not want to re-
ceive this product, in spite of the fact that its quality has improved con-
siderably.
Some heads of main administrations of the Ministry of the Metallurgical
Industry, although directed not to permit contrary hauling of noncoking fuel,
in the present case have caused looses to the state. In 1950, the Main Power
Administration allocated 160 tons of the intermediate product per day for the
southern metallurgical plants., But, the Main Administration of the Metal-
lurgical Industry ordered the Stalino, Konstantinovka, and other plants not
to accept and not to pay for even this insignificant quantity. As a result,
in the first quarter, the metallurgical plants received only half the planned
14,000 tons.
Before the war, the question of the efficient utilization of the inter-
mediate product was handled by the special inspecting commission for thermo-
technical control inspection. In accordance with the commission's orders,
a special re-equiTming of the fireboxes took place in the plants. Special
commissions revi;.vir the fuel distribution balance began to add more and
more of the enterprises located in the neighborhood of coal-beneficiating
plants to the circle of local fuel consumers. At present, the function of
the special commission has been given to the oblast administratie,is of "Gos-
snab. "
The time has come for development of a single, efficient plan for sup-
ply of fuel to enterprises of various ministries, so that inefficient hauls
of fuel will be eliminated.
PROMOTES METAL,-SAVING PLAN -- Pravda, No 151, 31 May 50
As early as 1948, engineers Frolov, yermolayev, and Zuyev of the Kuznetsk
in g
serious permitted
Metallurgical CbThey proposed that the a number of allov'Bnces
support
billets be cut in half
of their proposal,
By the existing standards, rolling mill workers operating blooming mills,
and heavy-section mills have the right to produce billets with allowances of
3 percent more or less than the specified dimensions. For example, a square
billet, 200 millimeters in cross section, can be rolled on the blooming mill
to no less than 194 millimeters or no more than 206 millimeters In cross sec-
tion. As a result, in the making of only one railroad-car axle from this
size billet, 30 kilograms of steel are wasted and become cuttings. Such al-
lowances, established as long ago as 1936, have prevailed for the past 14
years with almost no significant changes, while at the same time, technology
of rolling has progressed far ahead. The durability of the, rollers has been
almost doubled, durability of bearings has been increased many times, and
greater precision in rolling has been achieved. Kuznetsk rolling mills for
a long time have been producing billets according to allowances which are only
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half the existing standards- Such precision work has been going on now for
hiplus ashollowances is
a number of years to the extent that a billet rolled with
considered defective material. Throughout 1949, the thus
rolled the majority of profiles according to the minus allowances only,
saving many thousand tons of quality bi;eel.
The engineers have posed the question as to why such precision in ro31-
ing is not adopted in other metallurgical plants under the Ministry of the
Metallurgical Industry and why the existing standards have not been reviewed
improvement of actually
development and the
act as a meth-
tstserious e deterrent n to r the are
ods,
In 1909, the directors of the combine sent the proposals of its engineers
to the ministry, to P. G. Ravdel?, chief of the Technical Administration, and
to D. A. Smolyarenko, chief of the Production Division. Several months later,
the combine received an answer under the signature of P. Kushnir, deputy-chief
of the Technical Administration, to the effect that the proposed changes were
not wise, since they would result in a great amount of defective material. and
would not benefit consumers. Such reasoning is not logical, however, since
the Kuznetsk Combine would not have introducd these changes over a number of
years unless they were of benefit to consumers.
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