CHEMICAL WORKS, NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, PREROV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400110002-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Chemical Works, National Enterprise, DATE DISTR,
Prerov
Th1s material contains InLormatlon affecting the Na-
tionai AeL~nae of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
end 7W, the tranunisslon or revelation of which in
any manner to as unauthorised person is prohibited
bylaw.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS !N THIS RE10Rf ARE DEfINfTIVF.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SU67ECT Chemical Works, National
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1. Until 195 the Prerov Chemical Worke was knor~n as the Farmers
Chemical Works, Prerov ~ X49-27, E 17-2~f (Rolnieka lueebr~i zav~ody).
It vas an independent e~aterprise, organ zed, as the name indicates,
by Czechoslovak fanners for the purpose of suppiyirrg the Prerov
r?gion with superphosphate artificial fertilizer.
2. After the emd of~World War II, and the nationalization of the
chemical industry, the Prerov Plant became a part of 3ynthesia,
National Enterprise, Prague II, 3kretova 3. The plant was then
under the Czechoslovak Chemical W?rks in Prague II. After the :re-
organizatioM of the chemical industry on 1 January 1950, the
Prerov plant became an independent enterprise, directly subordinate
to the Ministry off' Chemical Industry, Prague II.
3. The pleat tRas rather old 50X1
Today, however, the .plan s comp e e y mo ern ze . Machinery and
other equipment were replaced and expanded. The .equipment for
maim produotion -- sal huric acid - rues re laced almost entirel
with new machiner
Unlike the remodeling
pro~ecta in other sulphuric-acid plants,,..>fithe Prerov Plant recei~aed
new rotary hearths for roasting pyrites. Nlaehinery used in pro-
ducing superphosphates remained unchanged and continued to fulfill
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productio~a needs. A general remodeling o? the plant was tc hs.v~e
been. f it~iehed by~ the end ?? 1952, However, no ~aew pr~~~otic~
was planned 1n connection with the remodeling;.
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~. The Prerov Plant had its own boiler ?acilities, and drew its water
?rom the Becva River into which waste was drained. Scrap and
sediment was st?red behind the plant.
5. The Prerov Plant wam acnnected to the Prague-Ceske Trebsva-Ostrava
and Prerov-aottwaldov-Breolav ~ ~8-46, E 16-5~] railway -lines by
a eidinp~. It oleo had direst connection with the Prague-Ostrava
maih highway. Prerov lay near the Becva River, but this was o?
no transportation advantage ?or the Prerov Chemioal Plant, since
th? Beova was not navigable.
6. The only two produots o? the Prerov Plant were sul..phuric aoid
1~tad superphosphate. The old equipment ?or making sulphuric acid
prooessed 1,000 tn. o? pyrites yearly; the new equipment was
ruppos?d tv pr?osss 36,000 tn. annually. Provided t~iat the Prerov
production quota was not reduced on demand d!' the Ministry a?
Agrioulture, 10,000 tn. o? raw phosphates were prooessed regularly
eaoh year. The rotary hearths did not require any speoial kind o?
raw materials and both Flotation and orushed orystalline pyrites
would be prooessed here. Besides domestio pyrites, the plant also
used itr~ported pyrites (mostly Norwegian) which were imported
through Stettin and transported down the Oder River.
T? The Prerov Pla~at paid 1,060 Drowns per dry weight ton of pyrites,
on the base of X896 sulphur, delivered to Prerov. Residues, as
was the Dees in all snob plants, remained the property v? the
plant end were delivered to .th? Vitkoviae fron Works For 0.70
Drowns pper kilogram of iron peight. M4hey derived ?rom these
~~ transaotiona was oredited to the Prerov Flant .
~. 8oth Soviet and P'renoh p~iasph,ates were used at~d both were brought
in via Stettin and the Oder River. Soviet phosphates oould not
be prooessed alone and they-were always mired ha1? and hal? witki
the Frenoh, Raw phosphates cost 3,146 Drowns per ton (P~Og) dry
weight, delivered to Prerov.
9? Finished products were shipped out aooording to orders of the
Ministry of Chemioal Industry in Prague. Aooordingly, sulphuric
aoid was sent to the Vitkoviae Iron Works in Ostrava. Super-
phosphate was paoked in paper saoks and distributed For agri-
oultural use on orders From the Ministry of Chemioal Industry,
who in turn, reoaived requests For distribution ?rom the Ministry
of Agrioulture.
10. Tha Prerov Plant had no researoh department but had ?nly a,labo-
story wher? produots were inspeoted and raw materials tested.
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12. Seourity measures in Prerov mere the same as in other ohemioal
plants.
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