RESITA ENGINEERING STEEL AND COAL COMBINE

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2009
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• Publication Date: November 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
INFORMATION REPORT to amended. Its transmission or revelation of its conten.ps
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Resita Engineering., Steel and
Coal Combine
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DATE DISTR. 27 November 1953
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1. The engineering, steel and coal combine at Resita (Sovrometal) is under the
direction of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry in Bucharest. There are,
in addition to the main plant, the following subsidiary factoriesa
a. The plant at Anina (iron and brass foundry, screw factory and store
for spare parts) ;
b. The factory at Bocsa for production of agricultural machinery;
c. The Steagul Rosu factory at Stalin (Brasov); and
d. The Asta factory and mining plant in Hunedoarae
2. In August 1953 the whole combine employed between 28,000 and 30,000 workers.
Of these about 8,000 are women. Three shifts are worked., changing at 0600,
14O0, and 2200 hours. Both in Resita and at the main office in Bucharest.
a number of high-ranking Soviet officers and engineers are employed. The
Rumanian general manager is Popescu, fnu., and the two assistant managers are
Munteanu., fnu, and Crenian, fnu.
3. In addition to iron ore produced by Rumanian mines., ore is also imported via
the Black Sea from Krivoi Rog. Eighty per cent of the scrap which is processed
here is imported from the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany. The necess-
ary chalk is obtained from chalk quarries at Kreuzbergl and in the vicinity of
Resita. Alloys are imported mainly from the USSR and Poland and aluminium from
Hungary. Quartz which is used in the smalting process, and coal from the combine
comes from mines located in the Jiul Valley.
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4. The planned target for the whole of Rumania for 1952 was 770,000 tons of
pig iron and 1,100,000 tons of raw steel. From these totals the combine
was to deliver 580,000 tons of iron and 850,000 tons of steel. The amounts
produced, however, were only 500,000 tons of iron and about 780,000 tons
of steel. Just under half of the total of :Rumanian steel production is
processed further in the Resita engineering works.
5o The combine possesses three power plants, the most important of which is
the hydroelectric plant disposing of power provided by 60 cu.m. of water
per second falling 60 meters in 3-;meter pipes. In addition there is a
power plant which utilizes the exhaust gases of the furnaces and consists
of six gas generators. There is a third reserve plant at Anina which
generates electrical energy from coal.
6. The Resita combine has at present four smelting furnaces. Of these, three
are of pre-war make and have a capacity of 500 cubic meters. The fourth,
which has been recently built, has a capacity of 700 cubic meters. Two
additional furnaces of this capacity are at present in process of construction.
74 The combine possesses three foundries, one for iron, one for steel, and one
for base metals. In each department there are three large and one small cupola
furnaces. In these three foundries, about ?,000 men are employed.
83 At present the steel works consist of fourteen Siemens-Martin furnaces, eight
of which are heated by gas and the remainder by electric power. About 2,000
men are employed in the steel works.
90 In the dogging mill there are 18 cluster rolls, in the blooming mill 10, and
in the bar mill 6. The total annual capacity of this plant is 450,000 tons
of steel in iron bars, T-sections, traverses, railroad rails and steel plates
from 0.5 to 170 mm0, About 2,000 workers are. employed in this section.
10. In the forge section there are 3 prey-heating furnaces, 2 large and 3 small
steam hammers. About 1,000 workers are employed.
il. The locomotive factory manufactures coal and oil driven locomotives and is
capable of dealing with 12 to 14 new locomotives and 20 general overhauls at
a time. About 8 broad gauge locomotives a month are built for the Soviet Union.
These are coal driven but have no funnels since the smoke as well as the steam
escapes through broad slits at the sides of the engine. About 2,000 are em-
ployed in this section.
l2o The freight car factory manufactures closed freight cars of the following types:
10 and 15 tons, 15 ton coal cars and 20 ton flat cars. The 15 and 20 ton trucks
have four axles with automatic brakes. For the Soviet broad gauge 15 ton closed
freight cars are manufactured and 20 ton coal cars. They are all four axle type
with automatic brakes and iron body work. The monthly production is about 170
to 180 cars, of which a third are Soviet broad gauge. About 1,200 workers are
employed here,
13. The press shop is provided with the most modern automatic equipment, imported
from East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Only highly skilled workmen
are employed in this department, numbering about 500. This section works only
for the armament industry and manufactures artillery cartridges, fuse caps and
shells for infantry weapons and machine guns. The machine shop manufactures
guns for the artillery, especially 122 mm howitzers, 76,2 field guns and 7602
mm antitank guns. About 20 howitzers and 10 field guns, including antitank
guns are turned out in a month0 In this department ships propellers, anchors
axles, turbines and cylinder heads are also manufactured. Workers number about
49000
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iL In addition to bridge construction components, the bridge factory produces
railway line accessories, This part of the factory contains a very large
fitting shop and an La-shaped workshop building, An even larger fitting
shop is in course of construction,
15o The combine has a department for the manufacture of electroqnotors, armatures
and transformers and also its own carpenters' shops and a tile factory where
the Chamotte tubes for the foundry and the magnesite tiles for the Martin.
furnaces are made,
16. There is also a small factory in which alcohol and tar is produced from wood,
Gunpowder is also manufactured and sent on to the munitions factory in Orastie.
176 In the adjoining factory at Bocea all types of,agricultural machinery, with
the exception of tractors, are manufactured, including threshing machines,
mowing machines, harrows, ploughs, saws and other machinery for timber, fruit
presses, refrigerators, milk machines, fireplaces and enamelled sanitary fitt-
ings. A production station for crude-oil engines for agricultural purposes is
in course of con structiono Workers number about 3,500o
18o In Anina there is a small foundry for low grade castings with about 500
workers. Steel rods and screws are also made and, in a special department,
precision tools including complicated mining instruments and theodolites.
l9o Resita is connected by a normal gauge railroad with Timisoarao The Resita-
Caraneebes railroad is in process of being doubled tracked with broad gauge
so that trains of normal broad gauge can travel over this line, which will
be used for the delivery of locomotives and trucks destined for the Soviet
Union, The Resita-Caransebes line is heavily used and links the combine up
with the main Rumanian railroad system,
20o The new auxiliary plant at Arad is shortly to go into full production in the
manufacture of machine tools,
21o There are about 300 Soviet troops stationed at Resita who are responsible for
the military security of the combine, The workers have passes which admit
them only to the department with which they are directly connected,
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