MACHINERY AND HEAVY INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF METALLURGY AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

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• Publication Date: April 10, 1952
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Machinery and Heavy Industry Department
of the Ministry of Metallurgy and
Chemical Industry
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
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AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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he Ministry of Metallurgy and Chemical Industry has been
divided into eleven Departments and a Secretariat (political). The eleven
departments were:
2. The department of Machinery and Heavy Industry had the following sections:
a. Technical, with subsections for
(1) Investments,
(2) Technical execution,
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Chemical Industry.
c. Mines.
d. Metallurgy.
e. Machinery and Heavy Industry.
f. Supply and Distribution.
g. Administration.
h. Bookkeeping and Finance.
i. Personnel (political).
J. Investments.
k. Planning.
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(3) Planning,
(4) Special Orders.
b. Administrative, with subsections for
(1) Supply,
(2) Bookkeeping and Finance,
(3) Administration,
(4) Cadres.
3. The DGMU, Directiunea Masini Si Utilaj Greu (Machinery and Equipment for
Heavy Industries Organization) received detailed orders from the works con-
cerned of the machinery, tools and materials they required in order to carry
out their )roduction plans for the coming year. The order was always based
on their production plan for the previous year. DGMU prepared duplicate
lists of these orders and forwarded them to DAR, the Directiunea De Apro-
visionare Si Repartitie (Supply and Distribution Organization). DAR made
a breakdown of the orders according to the different items orders, which
totalled more than 700, and also calculated costs. Up to 1950 these prices
were calculated in dollars, and from 1951 in roubles, four roubles to the
dollar. All eleven branches of the Ministry submitted lists of orders to
DAR. The DAR coordinated all these order lists for submission to the
Supreme Planning Commission of the state. As each item was approved, ele-
ven duplicate order forms were prepared, and sent to the Local Production
Department of DAR in the case of goods made in Rumania, and to the V inis-
try of Foreign Trade in the case of items having to be imported. This
Ministry made its purchases through foreign trade companies. Imports were
immediately authorized if they bore the indication "P.S." Q'Spec ial Problem").
Lists of materials and equipment obtainable in Rumania were sent to DARR.
periodically to prevent unnecessary orders being placed for imports. Where
applications for imports were made in respect of items that had only recently
begun to be produced in Rumania, the order was returned to DAR with a noti-
fication where the materials required could be obtained. When imported goods
arrived, the importing firm employed by the Foreign Trade Ministry notified
the DAR. Where these items were for general distribution, they were placed
in the DAR stores in Bucharest, Constanta, Galati, Ungheni, Oradea Mare and
Arad. Notification of the arrival of special orders was sent directly to
the factory concerned, which then collected the goods from the importers.
Other materials stored by the DAR consisted mainly of orders that were sub-
sequently cancelled, and of material sent by the USSR although this mater-
ial may have been ordered, a frequent occurrence.
4. The following factories, which placed their orders through the DAR, I 25X1
a. 23 August Bucharest; Cement crushing rollers for cement factories.
The large'-sogwheels required for these rollers were ordered from
Belgium, as the lathes required to make them could not be constructed
in Rumania, Pipes and boilers for cement factories. Internal combus-
tion engines for gasoline and diesel oil. Railroad cars.
b. 6 March, Tohanul \echi: Arms of all types.
c. Timpuri Noi, Bucharest: Water pumps and precision parts for machinery.
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d, Steau]wwl3cu; Stalin: Military equipment, arms and railroad cars,
e. Flamura Rosie brad: Railroad cars,
f, Vulcan, Bucharest: Mobile bridges, cranes and boilers.
g. Union, Satu ITare: Railroad cars.
h. Ciahlau, Piatra Neamt: Repair of railroad cars,
ary equipment.
Steaua Rosie: Concrete mixers,.
Internal combustion engines, repair of mili.--
k, Cujir: Arms and tools.
1, Bela Breiner, Stalin: Arms,
m, Strungul, Stalin: Lathe tables, small lathes, machine parts,
na IMS, Romano Harvesters and other agricultural machinery,
o, IMS, Sibiu: This factory passed to the Ministry of Defense and made arms,
p, Former Voina Factory, Bucharest: Agricultural machinery,
Not all factories of this type belonged to the Department. Those which had
formerly been German or other enemy property belonged to a special Sovrom
Department of the same Ministry, as for instance the former Ausnit Works,
appropriated by the Germans under the Antonescu government and renamed
Goering Works,
5. Other Sovrom factories were:
a. Sovrommetal (formerly Margina Resita Works)
b, Otelul-Rosu, Ferdinand (formerly Titan-Nad-Rag-Calan)
c, Nadrag and Calan Works
d, Sovromtractor (Formerly IAR Stalin).
6. The Section for Special Orders supervised the armaments factories. It
had been decided in tae summer of 1950 to switch all the above factories over
to the armaments industry. This plan was not accomplished as the necessary
machinery and materials ordered from the USSR and her satellites failed to
arrive in time, The following factories already worked for the armaments
industry:
a. Ilie Pintilie Factory, Plopeni, Prahova district,
b, 6 March Factory, Tochanul Vechi, Stalin district,
c. Bela Breiner Factory, Stalin,
d, IMS, Sibiu,
e. Steagul Rosu Factory- 2ialin.
7. Orders for machinery and materials were sent to Moscow by a special committee
for approval. Orders that could not be filled by the Soviets themselves were
passed on to the satellite countries. Materials for armaments could be ordered
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from Western countries until the supply of strategic material to Communist
countries was banned in April 1951. Ball bearings, for instance, were pro-
duced by the Steagul Rosu factories at Barlad and Stalin, but not in suf-
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These consignments were also cancelled in April 1951. Imports
were made through Masinimport and other import and export companies belonging
to the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
8. The Soviets sent large quantities of materials that had not been ordered, and
were not needed, but nobody dared to refuse them. As the quality of tuesF
materials was very often not in accordance with specifications, the fin1.sned
products were of inferior quality. Delivery te.i?uw were always fixed by L'iic
Soviets at three months, but seldom kept, so that the factories could not
work according to plan. The IMS factory at Cotroceni repaired Zis cars be-
longing to the Government. Parts sent for this purpose by the Soviets were
of such poor quality that the manager of the factory, Petroianu, an engineer,
invited a commission to study the position. The commission decided to re-
fuse acceptance of the goods, which were to be returned to the suppliers.
As a result, the manager and all members of the commission were arrested and
have been detained ever since. On one occasion, when a large consignment
of utility radio sets was sent from the USSR the engineer responsible who
had read in a Soviet magazine that these were unsatisfactory and had many
defects refused to accept them and was also arrested. He was later freed
again owing to the magazine report. The radio sets were sent to the
Supply Section, which had them overhauled and altered by the Vestitorul
(formerly Standard)Radio Works. In 1950 the following goods were delivered.
Steel, iron lathes up to 2,400 m/m capacity, iron planes and shaping machines,
tractors, grind stones, colophonium, natural and synthetic rubber and tires,
and crude iron.
Sovromtractor also.produced tractors. According to reports in the papers
the number of locally produced tractors was 5,000 in September 1951, where-
as Rumania needed a minimum of 25,000.
Large lathes up to 3,000 m/m and calcium fluoride for smelting purposes were
imported from Poland.
10. CalciumfLuoride for smelting purposes and large quantities of copper were
importeu from Bulgaria. the copper formerly came from Yugoslavia,
11. Imports from Czechoslovakia were:
a. Cars, Tatra and Skoda (civilian and military) Prag (trucks).
c. Calibration instruments for cartridge chambers of rifles and guns. In 1950,
100,000 of these instruments were ordered, but delivery was slow, about
200 or 300 pieces being sent at a time.
d. Carborundum grind stones.
e. r"Poldi" special steels for the cutting edges of lathes and other tools.
12. Special grindstones from the Reick factory, Dresden were imported, along with
11Boehler" special steel for knives and tools.
13. Grindstones were produced locally, 150 tons yearly, by the Colentina factory
near Bucharest. Production was not sufficient and the stones could not be
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used for all purposes, as they were all large, from 600 m/m upwards, and 25X1
coarse in texture. In 1951, a new grindstone factory was erected to Tur da,
yearly production of which was said to be 1,000 tons.
14. Special steels were obtained from Eastern Austria, chrome-nickel wire for
synamite cartridges in diameters of 0.03 - 0.04 m/m, was used by the
Pirotechnica factory at Cotroceni. The Hungarian heavy and light industries
held an exhibition in Bucharest in 1950, which led to large orders from the
Rumanian heavy industry. Among the pieces of equipment ordered were:
a. Heavy 11t hes.
b. Planes, and sraping machines.
c. Large iron milling machines from the Rakosi Matyas Factory (formerly
Manfred. Weiss, at Csepel).
d. Electro-motors.
e. Transformers from the Ganz factory.
f. Electrical material.
g. Ignition magnets.
Imports consisted of internal combustion engines, electro-motors,
and large heavy thes of 3,600 m/m.
17. Though all factories worked under pressure and ran labor competitions which
caused bad production, they could not reach their quotas for lac: of equip-
ment and material. The 23 August Factory the largest in Rumania - did not
ach ve its planned quota because 25,000 working hours were lost during 1950.
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18. LEGEND TO APPENDIX I
Diagram I.
1. Ministry of Metallurgy and Chemical Industry.
2. Smelting Works Department.
3. Chemical Section.
4. Department of Mines.
5. Metal Working Department. (Light Industry).
6. Department of Machinery and Heavy Industry.
7. Supply and Distribution Department.
8. Administration Department.
9. Bookkeeping and Finance Department.
10. Personnel and Political Cadres Department.
1.1. Investments Department.
12. Planning Department.
S. Political Adviser.
Diagram _II
1. Department of Machinery and Heavy Industry.
2. Technical Management.
3. Administrative Management.
4. Investments Section.
5. Technical Execution Section.
6. Planning Section.
7. Section for Special Orders.
8. Supply Section.
9. Bookkeeping and Finance Section.
10. Administrative Section.
11. Personnel Section.
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