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JPRS L/9712
6 Mzy 1981
- EAST EUROPE REPORT
_ $CIENTIFIC AFFAIRS
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CONTENTS
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ~
ERRATUM: In JPRS L/9641 dated 2 April 1981 of, this series numbered
- (FOUO 4/81) in article GABCIROiiO - NAGYMAROS ITYDROELECTRIC PRUJECT
DESCRIBED, on p 2 in li,ne 9, please change the figure 150 MW to
read 158 MW.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
CSR Rubber, Plastics ?ndustry Targets for 1981-1985
_ (Adolf Marsalek; PLASTY A KAUCUK, Jan 81) 1
~ Minister Views Metallurgy, Heavy Engineering in Sixth Five-Year
Plan
(Ladis?av Gerle; AUTOIrdATIZACE, 2 Feb 81) 7
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CZECHDSLDVARIA
CSR RUBBEP., PLASTICS INDUSTRY TARGETS FOR 1981-1985
Prague PLASTY A KAUCUK in Czech No 1, Jan 81 pp 1-3
[Article by Adolf Marsalek, CSR Ministry of Industry, Prague: "Development of the
CSR Rubber and Plastics Industry, 1981-1985~']
[Text] This article des~ribes the main directions of deveJ_opment
of the CSR rubber and plastics industry during the Seventh Five-
Year Plan and the key problems which must be solved in order to
achieve the assigned ob~ectives.
. Followi.ng great successes in past five-year plans, and particularly in the Sixth Five-
- Year Plan, which was the most demanding of all, the CSR rubber and plastics industry
' is entering a new epoch of its development.
The conditions under which the Seventh Five-Year Plan for development of the rubber
and plastics industry are being prepared di�fer greatly from those of past midterm
plans. In recent years economic development has brought forth new factors in
Czechaslovakia which determine the pace of development of the chemical industry as
a whole, including not only basic chemistry and petroleum refining b ut also the
rubber and plastics industry.
Specificatiun of the pace and structural changes of Czechoslovak industry is based
_ on objec:tivc internal economic conditions and manmade external conditions, as we11
= as on the CPCZ's economic policy objectives aimed at assuring the further develop-
- ment of ~ur developed socialist society.
- The universal limiting factors which determine the future of development of Czecho-
slovak industry are real fuel resources and the chemical industry's resultant focus
on de~eloping products which are less energy intensive, slower creation of resources
for accumulation, limitations on capital constiuction, a decrease in consumption of
raw materials imported from nonsocialist countries, an increase i.n exports, and
limited sources of new manpower.
These universal factors, together with additional specific factors imr~osed on the
~ chemical industry as a whole, such as the higri priority accorded to exp~rting plastics
~ to nonsocialist countries and the li.tnited development of new capacities for plastics
processing, as we11 as additional influences such as the insufficiency of certa3n
~ domestic raw materials, the load on critical production capacities and the 1ike,
mandate a substantially slower pace of development of the rubber and plastics industry
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during the Seventh Five-Year Plan. This does not mean, however, that the assignments
will be less demanding as regards production and management than in the previous
five-year plan. On the contrary, they will be much more complex and difficult and
~aill impose even greater demands on each worker in the sector and in the supplier
organizations.
The current proposal for development of the rubber and plastics industry during the -
Seventh Five-Year Plan calls for achievement of the folluwing main tasks by I985 by
the VHJ CZGP [Czech Rubber and Plastics Plants]:
j Index RatiQ, 1985/19$0, percent
1. Commodity ouCput 118.1
2. Deliveries for domestic commerce: ~
- retail price 110.5
wholesale price 110.5
3. Deliveries for export to socialist countries
wholesale price 116.2
all charges paid 114.2
4. Deliveries for export to nonsocialist countries
wholesale prices 118.~.
all charges paid 115.0
5. Imports from socialist countries 156.9
6. Noninvestment imports from nonsocialist
couutries, tozal 86.0
7. Profitability of production assets 123.7
8. Profit 155.0
9. Materials costs 94.2
10. Labor productivity in terms of gross output 116.4
~ Increasing commodity production by 18.1 percent during the Seventh F3.ve-Year Plan
will be an extremely demanding task which will have to be accomplished with essentially
_ the existing facilities, with the exception of an increase coming from the new pipe~
production capacities of the Optimit national enterprise in 1982-1983 ~nd to some
- extent from new capacities built during the Sixth Five-Year Plan and put into opera-
tion in the Granitol and Kordarna national enterprises. Commodity produc~ion will
focus on plastics processing using existing fixed ass~ets and performed in the existing
molded rubber groups (total growth of about 25 percent), because the increase in ~
_ output of tires will be i,nsignificant.
_ As regards deliveries for consumer goods inventories it will be necessary to direct
_ our main efforts toward innovation, making products with greater functional and
esthetic value. Particular attention will have to be devoted to the production of
materials which are the basis o~ innovation and of greatex utility value of consumer
commod.ities by the supplier organizations (synthetic polymer leather and lightweight
ieatherette for the production of shoes, for haberdashery and for upholstery, plastic
materials for packaging and the like).
In the case of au~omobile, bicycle and matorcycle tires it is universally expected ~
_ that the rubber industry will make a particular effort not only to meet the delivery
targets for consumer goods inventories but also to exceed them, since even current -
consumer demand is not f ully met for certain varieties. A greater role i.n resources
for consumer goods inventories must also be played by the development and production
_ of radial automobile tires, particularly long-life tires for type S 105 and 120 ve-
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- In exports to socialist countries, sales of most products are established by bilateral
agreements with the CEMA countries; the rest of the tasks will be met within the con-
text of annual contracts concluded by OZO Motokov [sunply and marketing 3epartmentj.
But to perform the task successfully it will be necessary that the producers in the
VHJ CZCP fulfill their annual delivery assignments and devote more attention to pro-
dLCt quality and to innovation within the product assortmen~.
An extremely demanding task is export to nonsocialist countries, particularly of
tires. In spite of the increasing demands for delivery of truck tires for the domes-
tic market, which have already been increased as a result of modern-design tires on
new vehicles, it will be necessary to try to meet the requirements f.or export pro-
- duction, for example, of tractor rear tires (high protection levels and exhaustion
of sources of new tires), radial automobile tires (increased lifetimes of tires on
S 105 and 120 vehicles and a steady increase in the output of steel-belted radial
tires). In exports to nonsocialist countries, it will also be necessary to effect
structural changes in the molded rubber group by exporting high pressure piping,
selected molded rubber products, consumer co~nodities, rigid PVC sheet} dipped
rubber goods, printed packaging materials and the like.
~ One of the most important tasks in the present stage of preparation of the plans for
the Seventh F~ve-Year Plan period is t4at of securin~ foreign exchange for imports
from nonsocialist countries, because the difference between the VHJ CZGP's require-
ments and the planning organizations' rE~sources still fluctuates widely in the case
of other noninvestment imports and selec~ed items. Tt will be necessary to con-
centrate maximum effort by leadership personnel and the initiative of all workers in
rubber production and plastic and asbestos~ processing on the complete accdmplishment
of this task. Chemists, process engineers and economists must work in comprehensive
fashion on the problems of conserving all kinds of materials, but particularly on
conservation of raw materia].s imported from nonsocialist countries~ Involved are
such problems are as replacing natural rubber, conserving nylon cord and industrial
fabric, and textile base materials for leathE~rette, greater utilizatiun of rayon
cord fabrics and steel cords, conservation of plastics by use of fillers, replace-
ment of imported plasticizers, conservation o~` isocyanate systems for the production
_ of PUR [Asbestos yarn] products, replacement of long-fiber asbestos and asbestos
thread, conservation of reinforcing materials by better design of tires, hese,
V-belts and conveyor belts, decreased tolerances in the production of all rubber
intermediate and plastic end products, a decrea.~e in the reject rate, and thus
an achievemen t of absolute savings of raw materi.als, particularly in rubber and
- asbestos production.
- But none of these changes and savings of raw tnaterials can be achieved at the expense
of quality; instead they mt3st be accomplished while improving the utility value of
products of the VHJ CZGP would be further aggravated.
The directive of the CSR government and the assignments oi the CSR Ministr;~ of In-
dustry devote great attention to the construction of new production capacities in tl-~e
Seventh Five-Year Plan; their effectiveness should mani.fest itself in a higher pace
of development of the plastics industry during the Eighth Five-Year Plan and in a
change in the breakdown of certain key products. ~?ne of the most important complexes
will be State Spe~ial Program No 13, "Development ~~f New Types of Truck Tires and
Disk Wheels"; the CSSR government's decision to develop the pro~ect was published
in Decree No 246/79.
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State Special Program No 13 includes the following construction projects: -
In the CSR Ministry of Industry
--the new No 2 tire plant of the Tudy ri~en [Red October] national enterprise, foY
the production of wide tubeless radial tires (commencement 1982);
_ --the rolling miil of the Mitas national enterprise in Prague, for the production of
rubber compounds (commencement 1985);
--production of S.5 R 17.5 narrow tires in the Mitas national enterprise in Prague
(com?nencement 1986) ;
--construction of the Barum center in Prague (commencement 1985);
. In the SSR Ministry of In~lustry ~
--stage 2 of Gumalna Vranov [Vranov Rubber Plant], for production of. tires (commence-
ment 1986);
In the Federal Ministry of Metallurgy and Heavy ~ngineering
Construction of a disk wheei production facility in NHKG [Klement Gottwald New Metal
Works] Ostrava.
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Accomplishment of State Special Porgram No 13 will have an important effect through- '
out society. The use of�new types of tires and disk wheels will mean, when fully
applied in traffic:
--an annual saving of 8,000 tons of rubber compounds with a value of 86.4 million
korunas;
--an annual saving of 15,600 tons of steel worth 78 million korunas;
- --a net annual foreign-exchange gain of 2,335,000,000 korunas (all charges paid).
Other important benefits will be realized in r,ighway safety, in manpower savings, in
a decrease in physical labor in tire maintenance and the like.
Current work on the plans for State Special Program No 13 indicates that it will now
be necessary for VH,T CZGP to concentrate its attention on further improving the
effectiveness of the resources committed to new investments and on preparing for
- experimental productior of the S.5 R 17.5 narrow tires at the Mitas national enter-
prise and for experimental production of narrow tires at the Red October national
- enterprise.
In addition to investment construction, State Special Program No 13 also calls for
an expansion of other capacities in VHJ CZGP by carrying out the following investment
project~~ :
--reconstruction of the Rubena and Nachod national enterprises (commencement 1982);
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--reconstruction of the Gumokov national enterprise (commencement 1984), and some -
other construction projects.
The development proposal for ~~81-1985 assumes investment limits of 1,341,000~000
korunas and 1.~ billion korunas for work and del~.y~eries budgeted at over 2 m~~.lliot~
korunas. During further preparation for the Seventh Five-Year Plan we may expect
certain changes and *_ransfers of investments as a result of overall inability to
satisfy the demand for construction work in Czechoslovakia, the unavailability of
~teel structural members and the like. Lut these changes will not affect the begin-
_ ning of construction projects in the VHJ CZGP in 1981. Even though investment ac-
� tivity in the VHJ CZGP will be higher in the Seventh Five-Year Plan than it was in
the s~xth, this V:iJ still has several unsolved problems to which greater attention
will have to be devoted. The main projects include rigid PVC sheet rolling lines,
a technically and economically beneficial solution for modernization and expansion
of the production of leatherette, preparation of a proposal for ~nnovation in PVC
floos coverings (particularly insulating coverings with a high degree of use of ~
secondary raw materials and waste materials), perfecting the production of water- -
proof sheeting and the support r~f further projects associated with modernizing
existir~g production facilities using the DNU form.
= This exposition of the most important directions of development of the rubber and
plastics industry indicates how demanding the accomplisrment of the tasks of the
Seventh Five-Year Plan will be in all areas of aciivit~~, But a particularly impor- ~
tant task falls to the lot of research and developmenr~workers, technicians and
economists who are responsible for timely pr~paration for production and capital ~
construction. In compliance with the 18th CPCZ Cent~:al Committee session it will be
necessary in particular to accelerate the science-r~~search-development process. In
addition, it will be necessary to make much greate.: use o� the experience and knowledge
of other research and development organizations a~nd advanced schools, as well as
scientific and technica~ results which emerge from bilateral and multilateral cooper-
ation with the CEMA countries. Licen.sing policy will have to be used more thoughtfully
than in the past for innovation of important produc~s and for modernizat.ion of manu-
facturing processes.
It will be necessary to accomplish research and development tasks in a much more
corzprehensive manner not only with regard t~ production itself but in relation to
the use of products as well, Particular attention is required in resolving the tire-
vehicle-traffic conditions connection, where failure to take account of objective
relationships has important effects throughout the society. Effective research and
development also requires that assignments be broken down into shorter performance
intervals, and that new farnas of ceoperation between the partners involved be found
so as to achieve higher production and use effectiveness.
In accomplishing all the production tasks of the Seventh Five-Year Plan, particular _
concern and attention must be devoted to the labor and social conditions of workers,
to material production workers in particular, and to education of the younger gen-
~ration and accomplishment of. thF tasks of long-term personnel policy in the areas -
of management, science and technology.
The preparation and implementation of the individual plans for the Seventh Five-Year
Plan period is likeZy to be successful under the new conditions only insofar as it
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proceeds in accordance with the Set of Measures for Improving the System of Planned -
Management of the National Economy After ].980 and takes account of the activity of
all workers.
The previous results achieved by the workers in the VHJ CZGP give no one grourid9
for misgivings as to whether the demanding tasks of the Seventh Five-Year Plan will _
- be fulfilled without exception as regards both quantity and quality and that the
rubber and plastics industry will, by its participation, aid in the comprehensive
- development of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
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_ CZECHOSLOVAKIA
MINISTER VIEWS P4ETALLURGY, HEAV7C ENG~'NEERING IT? SIXTI~ FIVE
Y" ^?LAN
Prague AUTOMATIZACE in Czech No 2 Feb 81 pp 29-31 ~
' [Article by Eng Ladislae Gerle, minister of inetallurgy and heavy engineering of
- the CSSR: "Assessment of the Tasks Assigned to the Ministry of Metallurgy and
Heavy Engineering for thP Sixth Five-Year Plan by the CPCZ Central Committee"]
_ [Text] ~zechoslovak metall.urgy and heavy engineering play the key role in the -
development of ti~e nation:il economy of the CSSR. The~ are the preconditions for
a rapid growth of the social productivity of labor on which depends zhe higher
quality of the standards applied in construction, renewal and modernization programs
for the technological production base of our economy. Ir~ our ministry, engineering
production r.epresents a progressive factor in the development of social forces ~f
production and pro~~notes technological progress in all other branches for which it
- provides the required tect+nology. This function of engineering production i5 fur-
ther enhanced by the fact that it represents an integral task in the development
of our foreign economic relations, in the creation of ~nost of the funds tc, pay
- for the imports our. economy needs, and in enriclhing our domestic market.
Therefore, our party considers engineering a vital branch even at the current stage, -
and furthermore, the 15th CPCZ Congress outlined the preconditions for incteasing
engineering production statewide by 48-51 percent, approximately 70 percent of
which is to be in Slovaki.a. -
The tasks of hea�.ry engineering in the Sixth Five-Year Plan are focused on the most
vital areas of our national economy, above all on foreign economic relations, -
- deliveries for the development of the Czechoslovak fuel and energy base, construction
of new power engineering capacities and capital investment as well as supply of
- machinery and equipment for domestic consumers. Successful accomplishments and
shortcomings in the fulfillment of the tasks during the Sixth Five-Year have, there- _
fore, decisively affected the overall achievements of our economy.
The 15th CPCZ Congress specif ied that during the Sirth Five-Year Plan our engineering
raise total exports by 72-74 percent. The exports included mainly products with
traditional high export efficiency. Engineering was also assigned the task to be- _
come competitive in exports and highly efficient in those branches of engineering
production that had not previously participated in exports. In the framework of the -
coordination of plans, an agreement was concluded fur tt~e Sixth Five-Year Plan with
the CEMA member states ta raise foreign sales of machinery by almost 60 percent
over the Fifth Five-Year Plan. Deliveries of machinery and equipment to the USSR
were up by .68 percent over the Fifth Five-Ye~r Plan. Exports of investment unit~
were among the most difficult tasks in engineering exports to capitalist markets.
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The Sixth Five-Year Plan, therefore, assigned to the Federal Ministry of Metallurgy
and Heavy Engineering [FMEITS] a considerable share in Czechoslovak exports *_o both
the socialist and nonsocialist countries. Thst share also corresponded with the
dytiamism of material exports which was more progressive than the average dynamism
in uther branches of industry. For instance, the plan for 1980 envisaged that the
supplier organizations of the FMHTS wo+ild increase exports by more than iCcs 3.6
billion over the 1979 level, with most of that increment, namely, Kc~ 3 billion,
produced by heavy engineering. Quite extraordinary efforts, therefore, necessary
by the manufacturers and foreign trade organizations to raise purchase orders above
the consumer-supplier relations thue far negotiated.
- It appeared at that time raat, even under the unusually difficult external conditi~ns
developing since the beg~~nning of the second half. of the Sixth Five-Year Plan, our
metallurgy a.nd heavy e�.~gineering proved their ability to fulfill and overfulfill the
demanding tasks in volume of deliveries of finished products.
_ The growth of volume in exports delivered to the socialist countries in a very
demanding structure proved outstandingly successful. Machinery and equipment
particularly for metallurgy, chemical industry, nuclear power plants and engineering
industry, and conveyances were delivered to the USSR. Among the most noteworthy
deliveries were four-high rolling-mill stands, models 3000 and 3600, for the Azovstal
plant, equipment for urea production, reforming machinery, electric and motor
locomotives, streetcars, large-lot oil engines. In order to fulf ill deliveries
f or the Soviet chemical, petrochemical, rubber and plastic industries, our ministry
- implemented all efficient technical and organ.izatior~al measures, especially in the
machine engineerino works in Kralovo Pole, in the Victorious February Works, in the
Skoda VHJ [economic production unit] and other cooperating enterprises representing
the center of gravity in the fulf illment of exports to the USSR.
In the same way, our ministry exported machinery and equipment to other people's
democracies, for example, to the GDR; hydroturbines delivered to the waterworks in
Markersbach, Riesa tube~rolling mills and equipment for the urea-producing plant in
Piesteritz should be mentioned as some of our outstanding a~.~i~evemer ,:s. Other
important deliveries to other socialist countries were, for example, machinery for
the heating plant in Sof ia, rolling equipment for the Metallurgical Works in Kat~wice,
equipment for steam power plants in Romania and Yugoslavia, all of them significant
in terms of trade policy because they represent a certain contribution to the
economic development in those countries.
Some deviations from `he original tasks in the volume of exports to the socialist
_ countries occurred due to specif ications in schedules for certain programs, as for
example, in cooperation with the USSR in the production of nt,:clear equipment, b~~
swit ching contracts, etc.
Among noteworthy deliveries of investment units to the capitalist states were
especially oil ref ineries in Salahuddin, Iraq, a concrete fact~ry ir. Brainha, Brazil,
a tire factory in Hama, Syria, power plants in Meshat, Iran, and in Soma, Turkey,
and so on. In the final years of the five-year plan, however, our heavy enginet~ring
failed to achieve much of th~ initially planned growth in exports to the nonsocialist
countries, mainly due to inadequate preparations for realizable exports of investment
units.
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Nevertheless, the FMHTS enterprises delivered higher volumes c?f technfllogical equip-
ment for almost zvery branch of our national ecnnomy, particularly for the fuel and
energy base, ~n a scope substantially greater than commensurate with export volumes.
Giant technology, including KU 300 and KU 800 giant excavators, belt trans~ort~
stowers, RK 400 excavators and ruany other types af equipment were ordered for
delivery to coal basins in thP Krusne Hory ?rea. [~11 giant machiaery was delivered
- during the five-year plan, aa.d the remaining equipment w:ill be delivered on ~ci~edule
in the nearest future. Before the end of 1�60, KU 300/24 machinery wa:. put into
operation iu the Czechoslovak Army Giant Open Coal Cast and KU 300/25 equipm.Ant in
the Druzba [Friendship] quarry. KU 300~26 wi11 be operating ba.fore the eud of March
1981 in the Vrsany quarry and in October, KU 300/27 will be~in opera~ion in the
Merkur quarry and KU b00/28 in the quarry in Most~
Nevertheless, operations of the KU 80G giant excavators and long-div;tance belt
~ transport for strip mining failed to fully satisfy. Howevex, ~~c schedules for
- assembly of the excavators ,aere able to be cut, which benefits coal production, as
- in case of the assembly of KU 800/11 excavator in Vrsany wi:ich ~was cut by 5 m4nths
and the assembly of 6600/11 stowers cut by 4 months. The record assembly time of
the KU 300/19 g iant excavator iai the quarry in Most, and of excavatoxs, stowexs
and long-distance belt tracasport in the quarry of ~l~abarovice s~iould ~be mentioned.
Heavy engineering was given an important task in the construction new 3,500--4,000
MW power capacities. Thus far, 4,487 MW in power-gei?erating capacities have
already been launched, particularly in power plants in Detmarc~vice, Pocerady IZ,
Chvaletice and in the V 1 nuclear power plant in JasZov~ke BohLnice. Test runs are
- taking place in the f irst 500 :1W unit in the power plant of Melnik III. Further-
more, toward the end of 1980 tests began with the f~rst set in the repumping hydro-
_ electric ~lant of the Cierny Vah River~ The set in the power plant of Dalesice is
now under way.
' Ir_ the Sixth ~'ive-Year plan, very vital capital investment in metallurgy and heavy
- engi:~.eering focused mainly on building of capacities for the product~.on of equip-
ment for nuclear power engineering. Const-,uction projects of numerous new metal-
lurg ical and engineering capacities were completed; especially important among them
is t'ne equipment for the development of the so-called tube program in metallurgical
- works and of the nuclear program in met;allurgical works ~nd engineering. The con-
s~truction of tube-rolling mill No II in the Sverma Ircn Works in Podbrezova and
the f irst and second st-ages in the construction of the anticorrosive ~ube-rolling
- mill in the Tube-Rolling and Iron Works ~n c'homutov were ~omnleted; the construction
of the equipment for the production of anticorrosive steel in the POLDI SONP
- [Un ited Steel Works, national enterprise] in Kladno was f inished, and the construction
~ of equipment for continuous steel casting which will have a particular economic
impact was launched in the Sverma Iron Works in Podbrezova in 1978. Also, the
construction of the equipment for threaded welding tube manufacture in the iron
. Works in Veseli na Morave and for the productioa of welding oil ptpes in the New
Metal~.urgical Works or Element Gottwald in Kuncice was ~ompleted.
In addition, our heavy engin~eering is now operating r_ew capacities for the develop-
ment of thz nuclear program c,n the basis of the USSR-CSSR agreement on coopexation
in the production of equipment for nuclear power plants. Czechoslovak metallu.rgy
and heavy engineering received orders to produce and deliver essent~al units of the
~ primary circuit for the WER 440 and WER 1000 nuclear power plants and some other
components.
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- This task was entrusted primarily to the Skoda VHF in Plzen and Vitkovice. The
~ production of vital components, such as the drum af the pressure tank, its inner
core, upper unit and control mechanism of �uel cells, was included in the producti~n
program of the Skoda VHJ. A reactor hall with 49 auxiliary and power facilities
had to be built expeditiously in the Skoda sectorial enterprise. In accordanCe with
the interstate contract, the first pressure tank for the construction of the Paks
- nuclear power plant in ftungary was delivered in Mar�ch 1980. -
- A demandi.ng reconstruction pro~ect was comp leted and the existing productioa base
- was expanded for the operation of the nuclear program in the sectorial enterprise
- in Vitkovice, part~~cularly the praduction of ingots from special types of steel,
sheet processing, shaping of forged pieces, machining of individual parts, aizd '
assembly of finishad products (steam generators and volume compensators).
The cycle of key investment programs launched during the Sixth Fiv~e-Year Plan in
- Czechoslovak metallurgy and heavy en~ineering in the production of equipanent for
- nuclear power plants was closed with the construction of two new capacities for the
manufacture of separators and condensers in the Slovak Power Enginpering W~rks NP _
in Tlmace and Ze1iP~ovice, with the work cn eight projects and reconstruction of the
ar~anufacture of fittings in i:he Sigma VIiF, a n2w plant. producing we'lding materials
_ in the Antonin Zapotocky Iron Works NP in Vauiberk. The Ministry of Metallurgy and
HAa:ry Engineering launched the construction of additional facilities and capac:Lties
in Vitkovice, in the New Metallurgical Works of Klement Gottwald, in the East Slovakia _
_ Iron tJorks, in the Iron Works of Trinec, which will begin operation during tY~e
SPVenth Flve-~ear Plan. However, due to general restrictions in the distribution
of investment funds in annual plans, it was necessary to transfer ta the Seventh
Five-Year Plan certain operations of the reconstruction and modernization program
in the heavy engineering production and technological base.
As for deliveries to other consumers, I shall list here the most significant con-
struction projects. Operations launched in the petrochemical facilities of the
- S1o~maft NP :~n Bratislava, Spolana in Neratovice, Raucuk in Kralupy and the CSSP
[Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship] Chemical Works in Zaluzi proved outstandi.~oly
~ successful.
Th e reconstruction of the transit gas pipeline will increase the transport capacity
oE the gas system up to 37 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Our construction
industry gained additional cement plants in Zahorie II and Prachovice. The Sigma
. VHF also ~~elivered to full satisfaction irrigation equipment for our agriculture.
However, all large-capscity silos for grain s~orage could not begin full-scale
~ operation and the envisaged increment in their storage capacities could not be
- reached. -
Serious shortcomings in deliveries of investment units stem from our insufticient
capacity in the manufacture of boilers and water-treatment plants. This kind of
equipment frequently holds back the completion of investment units and their scheduled
operation, as do the deliveries of transformers, cranes, distributors, f ittings
and pumps.
Heating equipment for apartments in housing developments has not always been
delivered on schedule during the Sixth Five-Year Plan. Problems in the construction
of boiler rooms in housing units are related mainl.y to the coordination of op erations
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between construction enterpr.ises and suppliers of technological components. Thus, -
due to the shortfalls in construction planning, consecutive assembly and technological _
- operat~~ns are sometimes all crammed into short p2riods of time.
- Changes and ad3ustments in the planned management system of inetallurgy and er.g i4t~ering
assumed a very special place in the measures planned and gradually implem?nted upon
the tncentives of the third session of the CPCZ Central Committee. Eff~t~iency of
the intensified planning system of sectorial structure, constructi~n, sales, techno-
logical development, control of quality and planning, and investment regulation
was introduced and tested in i:~cent years. An accounting system was planned in _
detail and specified mainly in terms of material relations in the replacement
process; the coordinating system was expanded and enlarged. Thozoughly detailed
measures pertainin.g to the capacities of higher supplier functions helped further
intensify the system of supplier-consumer relations; expedient changes were intro-
duced in thP organization of management of the technological production base in
metallurgy and engineering; efficiency of adjusted economic tools, particularly in
terms of export incentives, standards of innovations and improvement of quality, was
tested and extended f irst to individual ad~ustcients and then in the framework of
the comprehensive experiment in c~ntrolling efficiency and quallty in sel.ected _
economic production units. All such measures helped fulfilJ_ objective tasks of
the plan and by the same token, they enabled us to gain experience necessary for
_ the development of the Set o~ Measures for Improving the Planned Management System
of National Economy After Z980.
_ Summary reviews of the fulfill`d tasks assignec? to the FMHTS for the Sixth Five-
Year Plan by the 15th CPCZ Congress,therefore, undezscore many po~j.tive achievements
as well as certain shortcomings and problems.
- One of the negative aspects of development so fax is the fact that, despite numerous _
- regulations introduced in the sector of capital investment, meta~lurgical and hea~ry
engineering economic production units failed to entir~~ly avoid delays an planned
sc:hedules of con.struction of internal investment,programs and to reach promptly the
outputs planned for the npw capacities. Furt:~ermo:re, co~sumption in production
~ould not be fulfilled in the volumes and in the necessary s*ructure of deliveries
froni supplier ministries, which created a problem that has not been completely '
resolved. Many problems arose .from the activation of intexnal research and develop-
menL-, which was reflected in th~a low level of innovations of the production in
enterprises of heavy engineering and in the quality and reliability of its products.
In conclusion, it should be affirmed that a11 de~isions and incentives of the
thiid session of the CPCZ Central Committee, furth~~r expanded in the discussions
and decisions of the subsequent sessions of the CPCZ Centra7. Committee, have
objective long-term applications in the further developr,~~t ot metallurgy and
heavy engin~ering. -
The plan for 1981 and the economic program for the Seventh F:Lve-Year P1an are
based on the application of our previously gained experience and its further
elaboration and specification of issues initially drafted for the solution of
lasting problems in the development of inetallurgy and heavy engineering.
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