PRODUCTION OF LIGHT METALS BY THE BITTERFELD ELECTROCHEMICAL COMBINE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Aithough the date of completion of Slectrolytical Plant No II which was under.
-construction at the Elektrochemisches KoMbinatt VEBt in Bitterfeld.was still not
eertain, the plant was assigned a 1953 production quota of 21$500 toms of
metallurgical alumdnum. The State Administration for Material pply had$
howevere diatributed 24000 tons for 1953ftincluding 2000t tons which were to
bs delivered as state reserve by Elektrochemisches Kombinat to Leiehtmetallwerk
in t.fic-kwits near Leipeig,,
Frat I. January to 15 May 19533, the Bitterfeld plant produced 6,643 tons of
metallurgical a1uminum0.ncluding 107 tons of purest aluminum with an Al
Percontnge of 99.95 percent, This meant an overfulfilment by. 426 tons of the
production quota of 6,215 tons planned for this period? Since the State
Aeministration for Material Supply had distributed 8,000 tonal, a deficiency of
li,357 tons remained,
the metellurgical aluminum production -plan mainly depended on the current supply0
the melting process of the electrolytical plant was constantly
delayed by cuts of the current supply during peak load periods 'andthis
would became etill more serious after the putting into operation of the second
eientro4ticrj. plant.
The production of resmelted alloys from aircraft scrap amounted to 4969 tons
at the Bitterfeld plentras compared with a plan quota of 2,250 tons during the
period from I January to 15 May 1953,, The deficiency. was caused by decreasing
supply cf scrap.
in the first half of May, the TranspuriAltic61 kisehina.. Construction naiii
Adminestration in Dessau,of the Ministry for Transportation and Agricul-
tural. Mechine Construction ,requested the State Secretariat for Chemistry
to order test bars of magnesium-aluminumecopper-manganese aLoys for
experiments, allegedly- on aircraft materials. For casting these bars which
were echeduled to be produced at the Elektrochemisches Kombinat, 4 tons of
metallurgical. magnesium. were requiredwhich had to be supplied from stores
of the state reserve. These stores included several hundreds of tons of pure
eaeneeium produced during the war and stored at the Leichtmetallwerk in Rackwite? ,
In early June 1953, rektrochemisches Kombiaat, VEB, in, Bitterfeld filled the .
magneeium production' plan about 200 percent,. SIACO magnesium was being produced
enly by reamating processes in Bitterfeldt this over-fulfilment was allegedly made
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