DDR STEEL PLANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008600220004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT cL 4o.
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a: s. I.ny (Russ an Zone)/West Gornax 4 DATE OtS 4 t
DDR Steel Plants
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The four 450-ton blast furnaces are being worked ^.t an approximate rate of
300 tons of crude iron per day per furnace. The total daily production of
the four furnaces amounts to about 1,000 ? 1,100 tons. The lack of ore has
let? to this recent decrease In production and has caused 50% of t?he orude
iron used to be de up of saran iron. The decrease of production has led
to the dismissal of about 800 workers.
b, The capacity of the rolling mill section is 42,000 tons par month, but the
present output amounts to only 30,000 tons per month. The reduction In
the works' own crude iron and steel ingot reserves has necessitated deliver iee
of ingcts from e.g. VEB Stahl--turd 11;falz-E,r?rke Brandenburg. The rolling mill
plenat output has been reduced because these in marts require preheating.
c,. Twv Thomas convex ters (Birnen) of 15-16 tons each are being erected.
'dhea in operation, these receive a blast of air every 35 minutes,
On completion of the repairs necessitated by faulty drying, the air preheater
of the trial furnace to be used in the lover shafts reached a tea: perature
of 1,4+0000 with an air temperature of 1,1000C. As such a high termerature
is no+:, required, it is operated at approximately 1,100 - 1,20000. When the
Thrnac was used, it proved to be leaky and had to be welded at many joints,
having caused several cases of gas poisoning among the workmen. Slack
snoltint with coke was commenced on l I-lay 1.951, and the furnaces are
graduaallyr changing over to ore and lignite briquets. This trial furnace
has been fenced off from the rest of the works, and a strict check is being
maintained on those persons permitted to enter,
new cranl-. shaft for the motor of the blast furnace gas generator ordered
in Lest Ger- ssny at either August Thyssen Hatte, Duisburg, or Gate Hoff'nirnge'
h1.tte, Oberlr fiusen, is badly needed in order to keep the blast furnaces in
operation, bat it is being detained in I:westeru Ger any.
The Ichsbahn has complained that about 70% of the S.49 steel rails (1,200
tons) produced In December 1950 by II?axhtttte were rejected on account of flaws -
a.nd general brittleness of the rails. It attributes this to the fact that
the rails were produced tritho jl .WAggI crude iron through a mixer.
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Production figures in tons for the rionth, of April were as follows:
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Siemens- I.7.rt in ingot steel 10,000 109200
steel castings 830
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zta.te:d on 4 Atlei.j. #95i. that iron ore was being forted from China and the
CSI' Prom which quality steel was being produced especially at Riesa, The
AJ1's used these ateels for other purposes besides used rapid lathe stools,,
for which they were only intended. On the whole, the quality of materials
was poor and did not meet the requirements of the railroads. Rails, switches
ar small parts for track are still bottlenecks There is in particular a
? reat shortage of manganese for rails,
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The total high.-grade steel production of VEBs amounts to 1,200 tons ?er month, or
1,' 400 tons per year. On completion of the. nev works at D ten, this figure
is planned to be raised to 5,000 tons per months
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Daa (fnu) (formerly with Roechling, air) o head of the new office of the
.KB at leipzig, has been deleg ted the task of developing the USA-patented
i7Strax gg dss'~ steel production process for the DDR.
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