GHEORGHE GHEORGHIU DEJ STEEL MILL HUNEDOARA

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2008
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 25X1
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COUNTRY Rumania REPORTI
SUBJECT Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej Steel Mill, DATE DISTR. 28 June 1955
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1. The Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej Steel Mill is located north of the city of
Hunedoara and is connected to the railroad station, which is east of the
mill., by a standard gauge railroad line which is flanked by a Decauville
track. The covered area of the mill is surrounded by a wall and covers
an area of approximately 1,000 meters by 800. The plant is guarded by a
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although there is a guardhouse on the premises of the plant.
2. At present there is a labor force of 7,000 men, of whom 2,000 work in the
blast furnaces. During the winter or whenever there is little demand
for agricultural workers, an additional 500 to 1000 peasants are employed
in the plant on a temporary basis. There are 300 workers employed in
the offices. The wages of the workers vary from a minimum of 380 lei to
a maximum of 1,000 lei per month in accordance with the fulfillment of
their quotas and technical skill. There are three 8-hours work shifts
daily.
3. The ore used by the plant comes exclusively from the Ghelar mines,
located about ten kilometers southwest of the plant, and it is trans-
ported by means of a Decauville railroad and funicular railroad. Every
day scrap iron arrives at the plant, as well as old railroad cars, old
artillery pieces, shell casings, and ammunition, which is exploded in a
special department.
). The plant is exclusively a steel mill in that it produces only iron and
steel in various shapes for mechanical construction plants and heavy in-
dustry plants. No machines of any type are manufactured there. Most
of the products are shipped to the Resita locomotive plant and to the
23 August plant. All the products are loaded on freight trains within
the premises of the plant.
5. The plant is divided into five sections: blast furnaces, rolling mills,
steel works, maintenance section and electric shops. A sixth section
is under construction and almost completed.
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a. Blast furnaces s The ort_: arriving from Ghelar is brought directly to the
burners by Decauvil.le cars where they are automatically unloaded at 24
different burners. Each burner is manned by two workers, one from above
to handle the loading and unloading of the ure, and the other from below
to take care of the fir. The burners are in continuous operation for
24 hours a day and are kept in cperation by both civilian workers and
soldiers from labor detachments. The ore is then transported to the six
blast furnaces which are 20 meters high and 8 meters in circumference
at the base. Each blast furnace is manned by a squad of of 7 to 10 men.
Only one of the furnaces is electric and it operates more efficiently
and faster than the others. Of the other five furnaces., only four are
in operation; the fifth one has been out of operation since 19539
allegedly as the result of sabotage. The electric blast furnace is the
only new piece of equipment that has been added to the plant. It was put
up in 1951"1952 by the Soviets, while the remaining installations were
built by German engineers prior to 1.944. Each casting of the electric
blast furnace varies from 60 to 80 tons in accordance with the quality
of the ore,, while the casting of the other furnaces varies from 20 to
25 tons,
b. The foundry is a large building measuring 50 by 30 meters and 20 meters
high, where the casting is poured into conical moulds called shells which
are removed when the casting has solified. The resulting blocks, which
weigh from 2.5 tons to 3 tons, are then transported by overhead cranes
directly to the steel works.
c. The steel works are located in a building 300 by 120 meters, and 40 meters
high.. There are five Siemens Martin furnaces which utilize both the pig
iron from the blast furnaces as well as the scrap iron which is collected
from all over Rumania. On the average, each furnace produces about 60
tons of steel every eight hours.
d. Theiron or steel arrives at the rolling mills as soon as they are removed
from the molds or else in slabs one-half meter thick on small. freight
cars. The blocks are then placed inside "deep" furnaces from which they
are immediately placed under one of the three rollers. Each block is
rolled ten minutes, and according to the quality of the material and the
skill of the workers, 40 to 60 blocks can be rolled during a period of
eight hours. There are 1,500 workers in the rolling mills.
e. The maintenance section is made up of two buildings; one 50 by 20 meters and
and the other 70 by 30 meters. Repairs on equipment used by the plant
are,,carried out in this section*
f. Electric shop. This is a four-story building, approximately 30 by 20
meters, in which 80 workers are employed who keep all electrical in-
stallations and the power plant in operation. The power plant utilizes
a waterfall located near the plant and has a capacity of 5,000 kilowatts.
The waterfall is also used for other needs of the plant. The power
plant furnishes 3-phase alternating current at 380 volts for electrical
machinery, 220 volts for the lighting system and 50 volts for hand tools.
In August 1951 construction began on a thermoelectric plant.
g. The sixth section of the Gheorghiu Dej plant will began operating during
1955. The purpose of the new section is to utilize the by-products from
the casting of the iron ore and of the coke which can be used in other
industries.
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Legend for attached sketch of the Gheorghe Gheorghiu. Dej Steel Plant.
1 - Main entrance (for workers and materials)
2 - Pbwer plant
3 - Burners
4 - Blast furnace No. 1
5 - Blast furnace No. 2
6 - Blast furnace No. 3
7 - Blast furnace No. 4
8 ?- Blast furnace No. 5
9 - Blast furnace No. 6
10 - Iron foundry
11 - Maintenance section
12 - Second entrance
13 - Maintenance section
14 - Electrical shops
15 - New section under construction
16 - Iron foundry
17 - Main office
18 - Entrance for administrative personnel
19 - Rolling mills
20 - Steel works
21.-y Thermoelectric plant under construction
22 - Hunedoara railroad station
23 - Railroad line leading to Ghelar mines
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Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej Steel Mill, Hunedoara
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