1954 SULPHURIC ACID PRODUCTION IN EAST GERMANY

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• Publication Date: April 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
East Germany
1951+ Sulphuric Acid Production in
East Germany
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At a meeting held at the State Secretariat for Chemistryl
the 1954 production quota of s hur was-W3Vj-VVV
tons broken down for the ind.t idual plants of the IVSchwerchemie (Main
Administration for Heavy Chemical Industry ), as follows: 1
Pyrites,~ulphuric- acid. plant of the Farbenfabrik (L.ye
VEB, Wolf en
Dy.psum-s4phuric acid. plant of the Farbenfabrik ; JJ- c ....r ; : ;:
VEB, Wolf en
Schwefelsaeure- iaxld. Superphosphatwerk, VEB, Goswi:g~'',
Schwefelsaeure- und.Aetznatronwerk VEB, Nuenchritz
Chemische Fabrik Fahlberg & List) VEB, Magdeburg
Several plants-of-the Saeurechemie, VEB, Berlin-Niederschoeneweide
Plants of the HV Kunststoffe (Main administration for plastics)
32,000 tons
9-7r_ 00.,tons
52, O0 tons
38,000 tons
35,000 tons
34000 tons
310,000 tons
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3 yfl00 tons
25X1A 1 Comment: In 1954, East Germarsrneeds 525,000 tons of sulphuric acids
25X1A 2. C n : Reported as received. The total of the figures reported is,
however, 288,000 tons.
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i. of big. t A eraith.re coke raw1eby the whz ,,-r (`!2^ ,r
T+3c-vrlri wzclE daffioult af` it ?*rge metal icrkthx plants had re usAe' try by "3
s: :t >< *?, ?. he t .set erke Iron works) West In tial a had refused f. '
in Ito lent cupola furaai _t_, BA__ of, said that eVeeial y ~,:` ~t A-i 14
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shoed ;itrac ~;? a p : ~~rl.i+as dua to largo grains -a i groat. i s
w- e- now iair made s :zsc fine grained briquettes and amen
t iquettcs of speclu_, soI1d F ty # *;~stead of the -finest. grain bricue :tee ';a>ed
r3r8ViOU5y,. lie edited thrAis. taia asure would raise the ignition p?op3r i.es,
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t -e cokie b?+ tpo,zld render it less ebrssion r-,'. r than require l.
S a Z~ ?ai,able for the uchhaaiie ' Ott pr~or_tc, ls~`
~.-= : i is < i bout 5 io f et aar -: 3 3S.iliion east Zd2 iGSI
eve 26.5 million asi ar s, were prow #s3.ed- i -, a- He sa i c tht t
an oni~;j 50 h I1 16-n a''3s+`d ir c x ould be
p rw'"-~`iated fo,- 1955 a v th the i. `
M; 3 by Ir 55 would be 325 .330 million ea Starks for output, rs i s=-k1 to
{ Ca':.0 tons of coke, Scrjrc~~ o .enter thzt production of 1;.2 mi w tcni *r
r ?or 450 million ea3e:?4-_s but been planned and thLt the s; eae=.it icoduct:nn
. fgh ; e eras :okt a eboi t i.,= O0 tons including about 50 oeracnt tera_c
7-1. zee o er L5 mm and 50 ,ercent : ruin sizes below h5 mm.
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