THE STEAGUL ROSU FACTORY AT STALIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013100270010-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 31, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT The,Steagul Rosu Factory atlStalin
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DATE DISTR. 31 July 1952
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1, The Steagul Rosu Factory is located approximately 10 kilometers south-
east of Stalin (Brasov) and one kilometer west of the Stalin-Bucharest
highway, The factory, which was known formerly as the Astra, is under
the control of the Ministry of Metallurgy. Approxiamtely 6,000 to 7,000
workers are employed at this factory,
2. A ball bearing section was installed in 1950 in the Steagul Rosu
factory. The new equipment was of Soviet type and probably of Czecho-
slovak manufacture. The new ball bearing section produces five or six
types.of ball bearings each of various dimensions. The entire production
was for export.
Since 1945 the Steagul Rosu factory has been. producing 50 ton railroad
tankers (vagon cisterna) mounted on two four-wheel bogies. The tankers
are built with a device permitting the operation of the car on both the
standard European railroad gauge and the wider Soviet gauge. At first
only one such car could be produced by the factory daily; later the pro-
duction was stepped up until now it is three cars per day. All cars are
painted red and bear Soviet inscriptions;, the name of the factory is
painted in white underneath the car. The factory also produces 50-ton
railroad freight (covered) cars for the Soviet Union, They have metal
frames (painted black) and wood bodies (painted red), The markings are
in Russian, The Steagul Rosu factory produces all the parts of these
cars, including the springs, with the exception of the wheels which are
brought from some other factory.
In 1947 the factory was equipped with a Siemens blast furnace, and in 1951
a new Siemens blast furnace of greater capacity was installed. It is
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believed that the blast furnace is of an identical capacity with that of
the blast furnace at the Hunedoara Steel Combine (i.e., approximately 25
charges in 24 hours). It is rumored that another new blast furnace will
soon be installed,
5'.. Marcel Klein, Director General of the fa&or?y, is an old time member of
the Communist Party.
At the close of hostilities he was appoin e a
director of one of the banks in Stalin. In 1949, he replaced Professor
Tocitu as chief of the administration division of the Steagul Rosu
factroy. He-has gradually held other higher positions until he became
Director General. '
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