RUMANIAN CHEMICAL WORKS BUCHAREST

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Rumanian Chemical Works, Bucharest
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 7 May 1953
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Rumanian Chemical Works, located at 71 Soseaua Panduri, Bucharest, pro-
duces various types of rubber goods, such as pressed items, rubber boots, and
hard rubber oases for batteries, both for the army and for state factories and
other enterprises. It employs approximately 850 workers and a staff of 150
clerks and technicians. There is s, chief engineer, eight other engineers, and
20 foremen.
2,' It carries out orders valued at 120 to 160 million lei per month for the
following enterprisess
a. Rumanian Railways (CFR) supply department at Bucharest. An order is
placed every three months for 10,000 meters each of rubber tubing of
various diameters suitable for hot and cold water and compressed air,
as well as 1,000 to 10,000 pieces each of washers, packings, et cetera,
Deliveries am.ount to approximately 30 to 40 tons of tubes monthly, and
about three tons of fittings weekly, which is about 50 to 60 per cent
of the CFR orders.
be The Steagul Rosu locomotive and railroad car works (formerly Astra-Vagoane)
at Arad and Stalin (Brasov). Monthly orders are ten tons of tubes and
three tons of fittings for locomotives and cars. Urgent orders are sent
by air,
co The 23 August Factory (formerly Malaxa), Bucharest. It receives about
ten tons of tubes and three tons of fittings per month,
do The Resita Works. It receives 20 tons of tubes and six tons of fittings
monthly. Urgent orders are sent by air.
e, Uzinele Chimice Tarnaveni. It receives ten tons of tubes and fittings per
year.
f. Gaz Metan, Medias. It receives ten tons of tubes and fittings per year,
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Bucharest Power Station. It receives ten tons of tubes "-fittings
per year.
h. Bucharest Water Works (UCB). It receives ten tons of tubes and fittings
10,000 pair of hip boots and 20,000 paim of normal knee boots. These were
25X1
The annual production of rubber-boots by the Rumanian Chemical Works includes
per year*
distributed as follows:
a. CFR -- 5,000 pains, or half the total order placed.:
b. Resita - 2,000 pairs
c. Danube-Black Sea Canal -- 2,000 paten of long boots and 1,000 psi* of
ordinary boots. '
d, The Mining Center -- 4,000 paint
e. Army - 1,000 paiia
f. Bucharest Water Works -- 3,000 pain
g. Remainder to Centrocomtextil for distribution to various state:.enterprises.<
In 1950 Sovromexport ordered large quantities of rubber composition soles for
export shoes. White soles for export shoes and both red and black soles for
from the Quadrat Factory, Bucharest, which produces. 40,000 psi= per year.
Most of the rubber boots produced for the army and for state enterprises Come
Apparently the orders are urgent, as a civilian representative of a Sibiu ammunition
factory comes once a' week in a military car driven by a soldier to collect what.
ever tires have been finished, even if there is only a small number. This fact-
cry makes guns and gun parts.
A?total of 5,000 sets of 10 different rubber fittings for army on masks were to
be delivered in 1951to the Colentina gas mark factory (Fabriea de Masti)
Bucharest, located between Strada Zidurilor.Mosi and Bulevardul Garei de Est,
with entrance from the former, The fittings were accepted by amajor and a.
captain of the technical inspection department of the army.
About 1,000 hard rubber cases for batteries per day are sent to the Acuamulstorul
Factory, Bucharest, for the army and for the CPR,,
department of the army (MAN). A. guarantee of one year is given for these tires*
the domestic market were delivered directly to the Tapa anti moclornata raos-
ories in Bucharest, and the Fabrics do Incaltaminte, Timicoaraa,mhich.received
a total of 10 tons of soles.
Banloc tires, 70 to $0 cme. in diameter, are filled with red sponge rubber by
the factory to make a type of solid tire for field guns. An order was placed
for 100 tires monthly by the supply department of the War Ministry, but not
more than 30 are made per month. These tires are tested in batches, for re-
sistance and durability, by a colonel and a captain of the technical inspection
8. In 1951 the factory .received 1,000 collapsible rubber !boats from the Soviets
for repair. The boats, which were of German origin and were claimed by the
Soviets as war booty, are six to eight meters long and.three to four meters
wide, and probably intended for use as pontoons. The boats were badly torn and
damaged and had to be cold-vulcanised rdth sulphuryl chloride,. Not more than
50 to 60 were repaired per month. When finished the boats were tested on the
Danube.
9. The Mining Center ordered 20,000 gas masks of the dustrabsorption type, but only
between 2,500 to 3,000 were delivered in the course of six months,
10. The CFR receives two,-thirds of its requirements from Usinele Chimice and the
remainder from three other enterprises-the Brasov Rubber.Factory,.the Zorile
Factory (formerly Mira), Bucharest, and an unknown factory--in accordance with
their production capacity,
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