USSR MATERIALS AND MATERIALS PROCESSING EQUIPMENT

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USSR MATERIALS AND
MATERIALS PROCESSING
EQUIPMENT
Number 25
8 September 1960
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Chemical Industry
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Industry-Wide Appraisal
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Construction Project Bottlenecks
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Mineral Resources Development
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Rubber Raw Materials
10
Synthetic Rubber
11
Tires, Rubber Footwear
12
Plastics, Chemical Fibers
12
Fertilizers, Pesticide
14.
Sulfur Dioxide
15
Alcohol
16
Starch
17
Chemical Equipment
18
Compressors
18
Pumps
18
Supply
19
Petroleum and Gas Industries
19
Production and Reserves
19
Drilling
21
Gas Discoveries
22
Oil Discoveries
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Refining
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Pipelines
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Coal
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Shale
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USSR MATERIALS AID MATERIALS PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
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V.
Ferrous Metallurgy
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Ore Extraction
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Agglomeration Installations
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Blast Furnaces and Pig Iron Production
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Cupola Furnace
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Open Hearth Furnaces
30
Continuous Steel-Pouring Installations
31
,FerroaI1oyy Production
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Rolling Mills
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Pipe Production
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Coke
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VI.
Nonferrous Metallurgy
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Metal Conservation
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Copper and Molybdenum
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Lead and Zinc
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Manganese
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Gold
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Labor Productivity
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VII.
Metallurgical Equipment
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I. CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Industry-wide Appraisal
REVIEW OF PROGRESS MADE SINCE MAY 1958 PLENUM -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 9 Jun 60
In the 2 years since the May 1958 Plenum of the Central Committee
CPSU which adopted the decree on accelerated development of the USSR chew:-
ical industry, much constructive work has been done in the chemical enter-
prises, councils of the national economy, construction sites, scientific
research and planning institutes, and design bureaus. Some of the results
of this work are cited below.
Total output of the USSR chemical industry as a whole in the first
quarter of 1960 was 23.2 percent greater than in the first quarter of 1958.
Similarly, in some synthetic materials, production of synthetic alcohol
was 108 percent greater, carbamide resins 107 percent greater, epoxy resins
191 percent greater, and polyethylene doubled.
The volume of capital construction in 1959 was 52 percent greater
than in 1958. There will be a sharp rise in 1960 so that the volume of
construction in 1960 will be 230 percent of that in 1958. The initial
results of the great drive for accelerated development of the chemical
industry are now appearing, in that one after another, in various sections
of the USSR, chemical industry enterprises are going into operation. In
1959, chemical fiber enterprises went into operation in Krasnoyarsk and
Kiev, a motor vehicle tire plant started production in Baku, and. polyethy-
lene output began at the Sverdlovsk Plastics Plant.
In 1960, the first stage of the Ryazan Artificial Fiber Plant has
been completed and has gone into operation; in the Krasnoyarsk group of
chemical industry enterprises, the following units have gone into opera
tion: cord production facility of the artificial fiber plant, first stage
of the tire plant, and the first stage of the cellulose production facility.
Oh his visit to the Sumgait Synthetic Rubber Plant, Khrushchev ex-
pressed his wish that plants still producing rubber from alcohol convert
to this plant?s new method of producing rubber directly from the butane
of petroleum gases. The Stalinogorsk .emical Combine successfully mash
tered the output of an intermediate for lavsar fiber production. The, chem-
ical fiber plant in Kursk added new capacity for lavsan production.
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The Soviet government has appropriated funds liberally for the devel-
opment of the chemical sciences. In the past 2 years, the number of per-
sonnel in scientific research'and planning institutes has almost doubled.
The task of scientists, designers, and planners has been to reduce the
cost of technological processes, increase the efficiency of equipment, and
improve product quality.
Important problems remain and must be solved as quickly as. possible.
One is. low-cost, large-scale production of synthetic polyisoprene and poly-
butadiene rubbers to ensure an improvement in tire quality. Another is
the production of new kinds of synthetic fibers and plastics. It will also
be necessary to develop as soon as possible new pesticides and fertilizers
for agriculture, new dyes and inks, detergents, reagents,.. resins, and other
products. The time lag between development of a process by scientists and
its introduction in industry must be reduced. Automation of technological
processes has special importance in the development of chemical production.
Shortcomings in the chemical industry development program include lags
in getting into operation the Cherkassy Artificial Fiber Plant and the
chemical fiber plant in Kursk. Suppliers not coping with equipment deliv-
eries include the Kiev Boltshevik Plant, Suety Plant imeni Frunze, Uralkhim-
mash Plant, and Leningrad Plant imeni Karl Marx. The last-named plant
sent low-quality and defective equipment to the Kiev Artificial Fiber Com-
bine and the Engel's Artificial and Synthetic Fiber Plant.
As to shortcomings in the planning institutes, Giprokhim [State Insti-
tute for Planning of iemica1. Industry Enterprises] was late in providing
documents for construction of the Aktyubinsk Chrome Compounds Plant.
Another planning institute .c[Ea'th ~Sta Committee for Chemistry of the Coun-
cil of Ministers USSR failed to deliver on time the blueprints for construc-
tion of the Kuybyshev Synthetic Alcohol Plant. -- S. Tikhomirov, deputy
chairman of State Committee for Chemistry 'of Council of Ministers USSR
NEW INSTITUTES, DESIGN BUREAUS SET UP -- Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 3
Jun 60
Four new scientific research institutes [for chemistry?] have been
opened in Yaroslavl', Leningrad, Tambov, and Moscow since the May 1958
Plenum of the Cen.trali::Committee CPSU, which adopted the decision on ac-
celerated development of the USSR chemical industry. In addition, about
30 institute affiliates and design bureaus have been organized. In the
past 2 years, the total number of specialists in the chemical industry
engaged in solving scientific problems and in design work'has increased
by several thousand.
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Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 22 May 60
The following have recently been established in the Ukraine: An In-
stitute of the Chemistry of Polymers and Monomers, Academy of Sciences
Ukrainian SSR; an affiliate of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute
of Artificial Fibers; a Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Plastics;
an Experimental Design Bureau for Synthetic Products; and other organiza-
tions.
Construction Project Bottlenecks
Omsk Synthetic Rubber Plant
LATE EQUIPMENT DELIVERIES THREATEN OPENING DATE -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 2 Jul 60
The (nsk Synthetic Rubber Plant is one of the great construction pro-
jects of. the chemical industry; it will produce rubber directly from'Ll.;:
butane, omitting the alcohol stage. Also planned for production at the
plant are latex, acetone, phenol, and alcohol. Full automation of process
control through the use of the latest electronic equipment is provided for
in the construction plan.
The first stage of the enterprise, which will produce rubber, is sched-
uled to go into operation in 1960.. Personnel for the new plant are being
trained in other plants and in trade schools. However, as the opening date
approaches, grave apprehensions are being felt about on-time deliveries of
technological equipment by the suppliers.
For example, the Kurgan Chemical Machine Building Plant should have
begun to deliver equipment in April 1960, but so far has produced nothing.
The Podol'sk Machine Building Plant Imeni Ordzhonikidze was to have deliv-
ered two powerful converters weighing 370. tons each in the second quarter
of 1960 but has'not yet begun their manufacture, which takes at least 5
months.
Delays in delivery of the technological equipment are the result of
inefficient planning, and, the supplier enterprises are in no way at fault.
Soyuzglavkhimkomplekt [All-Union Main Administration for Chemical
Equipment?] placed an order for 170 units of equipment for the first stage
of the enterprise, stipulating delivery in the fourth quarter of 1960,
that is, at a time when the plant was scheduled to be in operation.
Soyuzglavelektro .[All-Union Main Administration for Electrical Equipment?]
has ordered transformers for October-December delivery, but has placed no
order for oil switches.
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The planning organs sometimes fail to specify delivery dates and at
times even fail to name the supplier. Rosglavmashsbyt [Main Administra-
tion of Machinery Sales RSFSRJ placed an order with the Myshega Fittings
Plant in Tul'skiy Economic Region for steel valves, although a shop for
the production of such valves had not yet been built. Orders for instru-
ments were placed in the Mordovskiy and Azerbaydzhan economic regions;
however, one of the plants had not yet organized production of the items
ordered and had to decline the order. -- V. Vorob'yev, chief engineer,
Omsk Synthetic Rubber Plant.
Dnepropetrovsk Tire Plant
BUILDING MATERIAL SHORTAGE ONLY ONE OF MANY`PROBLEMS -- Kiev, Pravda
Ukrainy, 29 May 60
The Dnepropetrovsk Tire Plant being erected in the outskirts of
Dnepropetrovsk will supply tires of many sizes, with tubes and tubeless,
for the young Ukrainian motor vehicle industry as well as the motor
vehicles and tractors already in use in the republic. The main building
built of precast reinforced concrete will cover an area of 65,000 sq in.
The builders, Trust No 17, are fulfilling the plan but not their
obligations. In the first 4 months of 1960, they undertook to expend
34.6 million rubles, but actually expended only 29 million rubles. In
January,O-:;[Dnepropetrovskiy] sovnarkhoz approved measures designed to
get the plant into operation ahead of schedule but these have been only
partially successful. A shortage of workers and a lack of machinery have
continued. So far, no structure being built has been completed and, con-
sequently, assembly of equipment has been on a limited scale only. Espe-
cially slow has been progress made on the pumping installation located on
the Dnepr, the refrigeration installation, the compressor' installation,
and the water pipeline. The project suffers from a shortage of pipe,
asphalt, reinforced (armirovannoye)glass, and floor tiles.
Serious protests have been made to Gosplan Ukrainian SSR. Much aux-
iliary equipment is to be manufactured in doznestic.enterprises without
regard for the fact that the builders are obligated to complete construc-
tion of the plant by 7 November 1960. Production of refrigeration, air
conditioning, and electrical equipment, ventilators, and magnetic starters
has been planned so that delivery will be made in the third-and fourth
quarters of 1960, too late to meet the deadline for getting the plant into
operation. Gosplan Ukrainian SSR must reschedule production of this equip-
ment to permit delivery in the second quarter and the first half of the
third quarter of 1960.
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To produce, the plant will require raw material and chemicals of
uniform and high quality. Gosplan Ukrainian SSR should determine now who
the plant's regular suppliers will be so that supply problems may be
solved well in advance and normal operation of the plant and the quality
of its product ensured.
It is also time to think about personnel. About 500 workers are in
training for this plant at the technical schools in Yaroslavl' and Voronezh.
Other people are being trained at the operating tire plants of the country.
It will be more difficult to obtain engineers, but some will be found.
Housing will be in short supply for workers, other employees, and c:
engineers. Gosplan Ukrainian SSR alloted 9,000 sq m instead of 17,000 sq
m for their needs, while the city soviet will apparently provide less than
5,000 sq in.
Cherkassy Artificial Fiber Plant
29 May 60
HAPHAZARD MATERIAL DELIVERIES PLAGUE BUILDERS -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy,
The Cherkassy Artificial Fiber Plant is being built on the outskirts
of the city. Some ten production-type shops have cone into operation and
the main technological shops of the plant, a TETs heat and Vlectric power
station], and other structures are being built.
Despite the earnest efforts of the builders (Special Construction '.:
Trust No 2) to get the plant into operation on schedule, they meet frequent
difficulties which they must overcome. When a shortage threatened to halt
work on the artificial silk building, for examples trust workers with ,the
cooperation of personnel from a scientific research institute learned how
to produce precast reinforced concrete units on the site.
The construction project has been poorly supplied with cement and
low-alloy steel. For instance, the Krivoy Rog and Makeyevka steel plants
ship reinforcing steel irregularly. Acting particularly irresponsibly,
the Khar'kgv Metal Structures Plant has not yet delivered a single ton of
structures even though it received the metal needed for their manufacture
in the third quarter of 1959.
Tons of pipe are delivered to the projects but not be specialized
kind. Millions of items of equipment are sent, but not according to techno-
logical types. At present, about 200 types of equipment needed to complete
the structures which are to go into operation in 1960 are still lacking.
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The TETs is scheduled to be completed by 7 November 1960 and the first
stage of the fiber plant by 15 December 1960.
Chernigoy Synthetic Fiber Plant
UNCOORDINATED PLANNING SLOWS CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS -- Kiev, Pravda
Ukrainy, 20 May 60
The Chernigov Synthetic Fiber Plant is being built by Trust No 14 of
the Kiyevskiy Sovnarkhoz. The experimental production shop is in operation
and construction of the main building, all auxiliary shops, and all service
buildings is under way. Even a modest estimate indicates that the plant
should be fully completed not in 5 years but in 3 years. However, early
operation of the plant is being threatened.
It is known that in addition to drawings, the planning institute pro-
vides the builders with a plan for organization of operations. For some
reason, the planners consider this document merely an enclosure and its
preparation a mere formality. The Kiev Promstroyproyekt [Institute for
Planning in the Construction Industry] provided a plan for organization
of operations which does not take into account all the peculiarities of
a chemical industry construction project, which was carelessly prepared,
and which did not provide for modern construction technology.
Even if it had been well prepared and all the latest technological
accomplishments taken into account, the fact remains that it was not ap-
roved by Gosplan [State Planning Committee] Ukrainian SSR or by Gosstroy
State Committee on Construction of the Council of Ministers USSR] and
for that reason material resources have not been allocated under it. This
means that the plan and all it provides for are merely paper. Even though
the plant should go into operation in.a few years,. it is not now clear
what even the first stage will be like. The plant management says one
thing, the sovnarkhoz something else, and the builders have their own idea.,
We .herlap? kn far, ibrgan at onnc~ofrac o erata?~ns , ,bada..',beeno pr perly %!3-
px g ess,':wou .j.be -pt twice ';its present rate.
It is known that construction is fastest and most economical when
carried out in accordance with standard plans. However, there are as yet
no standard plans for the construction of synthetic fiber enterprises, and
plants are. planned and built individually, resulting in slowed construction
of an enterprise. For example, the plan for the main building of the
Chernigov project calls for reinforced concrete elements in 300 sizes, tvr
when 200 sizes would be enough. The auxiliary shops are to be built in
styles differentTrom that of the main building, which will be done at the
expense of construction time.
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Technology of the plant has been planned by the Moscow Institute for
Planning of Artificial Fiber Enterprises, construction and sanitary engineer-
ing by the Kiev Promstroyproyekt, electrical supply by Elektroproyekt
[Institute for Planning in the Electrical Industry?], heat and power by
Kiev TEP [Teploelektroproyekt;y All-Union State Institute for Planning of
Thermal Electric Power Plants], but no one has planned control and measur-
ing instruments and automation so far. Each planning organization gives
its own types and sizes, and much time is required to coordinate the dif-
ferences.
There should. be a unified center for planning synthetic fiber enter-
prisesr so that all problems could be solved there. Also, the construction
project could be planned as a whole rather than as separate units. For
example, the experimental production shop in Chernigov was built with four
stories; now, there is general agreement that the shop should have been
built only two stories high. This situation would, not have occurred if
the plans of the various organizations had been coordinated.
An affiliate of Giproiv (State Institute for Planning of Artificial
Fiber Enterprises) has been created in Kiev, but it is still-a-small and
weak organization. It should be strengthened and expanded to become a
strong, all-round planking institute. Then the large-scale chemical in-
dustry envisaged by the Seven-Year Plan will develop at the rate provided
by the plan.
Luganskiy Sovnarkhoz Chemical Plants
UNCERTAIN MACHINERY DELIVERIES MAY DELAY NEW BUILDING COMPLETIONS --
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 20 May 60
The chemical enterprises and construction organizations of the Luganskiy
Sovnarkhoz have achieved certain successes. The chemical enterprises ful-
filled the 1959 production plan and the plans for the first 4 months of
1960. A total of 159 production units (zvena) have been mechanized and
automated, while at the Lisichansk Chemical Combine the transition has been
made from automation of individual sets of equipment-to full automation
of shops.
On the other hand, the Lisichansk Chemical Combine expended an excess
of 4.3 million cu m of natural gas, 870 tons of coke, and hundreds of tons
of other materials in the first quarter of 1960 alone. Similar losses of
raw materials and power sources were permitted at the Rubezhnoye Chemical
Combine and the Verkhneye Donets Soda Plant. Both Director Gogin and Chief
Engineer Sichkov underestimated the importance of experimental installations
at the lisichansk Chemical Combine.
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Luganskkhimstroy [Lugansk Chemical Industry Construction Trust] had
an unsatisfactory record in 1959 and there has been little improvement in
1960. Director Bushnev of the Rubezhnoye Chemical Combine, Director
Vasil'chenko of the'Verkhneye Donets Soda Combine, and others complained
that Luganskkhimstroy was covering up unsatisfactory progress on buildings.
scheduled to go into operation with favorable-appearing average figures.
Chemical industry construction projects [of the sovnarQz] were not
fully supplied with-material and technical resources in 1959. It is not
clear at present when buildings scheduled to go into operation in 1960
will receive the needed pumps, compressors, control and measuring instru-
ments, electrical equipment) cables, and all kinds of fittings. Materials
have been allocated for delivery largely in the second half of the year:
only 189 tons of 465 tons of stainless steel sheet and 46.6 km of 156 km
of cable have been allocated for delivery in the first half of the 1960.
Design documents do not reach the construction projects on time. The
Lisichansk affiliate of GIAP [State Institute of the Nitrogen Industry],
the Rubezhnoye affiliate of Giproorgkhim [State Institute for the Planning
of Organic Chemical Industry Enterprises?], and other scientific research
and planning institutes are at fault in this respect.
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LARGE CHEMICAL CENTER WILL BE BASED ON NEPLINE SYANITE DEPOSIT -- Moscow,
Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 20 May 60
Razdan is a new industrial center of Armenia. Among the 50,000 in-
habitants who will live in the new city.of.Razdan will be workers of the
mining-chemical combine and of the capron,fiber plant which will be built
there.
The mining-chemical combine is planned for construction in Razdan be-
cause of the vast deposits of nepheline syanite nearby. Manvel I++nvel'yan,
Corresponding Member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, and his associates
who made the discovery analyzed the deposit as being composed of sodium
silicate, calcium silicate, and a still unidentified mineral which they
called Yerevanite.
The alumina content of nepheline syanite may permit the Yerevan Alu-
minum Plant to halt alumina shipments from the Urals. Nepheline syanite
is also useful in the productiory of cement and soda. Yerevanite will find
application in the glass industry.
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The capron fiber plant to be built near the mining-chemical combine
will be one of the largest chemical industry projects in Armenia. It will
produce capron cord for motor vehicle tires.
NEW TUNNELING METHOD USED AT APATITE DEPOSIT -- Moscow., Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta,, 3 Jul 60
Apatite, an excellent raw material for the production of superphosphate
fertilizers, is found throughout the Khibiny Mountains [on the Kola Penin-
sula.] At present, the apatite combine [Kirovsk Apatite Combine imeni S.
M. Kirov, Murmanskaya Oblast] is developing a new high-altitude mine com-
plex on the Rasvumchorr [Razvumchorr] Plateau. Apatite will be mined by
the open-pit method and moved to ore chutes by powerful trolley cars.
Rather than transport the apatite ore over the mountain, Glavtonnel'-
metrostroy [Main Administration for the Construction of Tunnels and Subways]
is driving a tunnel through Rasvumchorr Mountain. Two underground railroad
stations will be established in the tunnel to which shafts will lead from
the top of the plateau. The depth of these shafts will be such that they
could accommodate two Eiffel Towers.,. From the ore chutes, apatite ore will
cascade to the underground stations where it will be loaded into dump cars
and dispatched to the combine's new concentrating mill.
This is the first such tunnel to be built in the USSR beyond the.
Arctic Circle. Its first stage will be 2,300 meters long and the second
stage 4,500 meters long. There are great difficulties in digging a tunnel
in the polar region. The hurricane-like Arctic winds are particularly
troublesome. Despite the difficulties, however, the builders are making
good progress. Using the latest methods, Tunneling Crew No 1 is complet-
ing 110 running meters of the full dimension of the tunnel per month.
This is about twice the progress that was made in the Abakan tunnels.
In contrast to the old way of digging a tunnel in two phases, first
the top and then the bottom, metal scaffolding is now erected in the tun-
nel to accommodate 12 drillers, who simultaneously prepare the entire face
of the tunnel for blasting. Two powerful MPR-6 machines move the rock,
which is then transported to the tunnel entrance in small rail cars, from
where trucks haul it into the valley for use as railroad bed ballast.
The first stage of the tunnel will be completed by the end of 1960.
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NEW PHOSPHATE ROCK DEPOSIT IN SIBERIA -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda,
16 Jun 60
Geologists have found phosphate rock in the Eastern Sayan Mountains,
near the city of Artemovsk, along the Abakan-Tayshet railroad line, which
is under construction. Laboratory analyses have indicated a high phosphoric,
content. This is the first time that a deposit of mineral fertilizer raw
material has been discovered in a populated area of Siberia or the Far East.
Bore testing and other prospecting operations are now being carried out.
SULFATE COMBINE ON SHORE OF SALT LAKE
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Leningradskaya Pravda, 21 Jun
There are more than 3,000 salt lakes in the Kulunda Steppe region .
A sulfate combine is being built on the shore of Lake Kuchuk, the large
of the 04lta lakes. The combine builders have pledged to begin pumping
salt water into man-made Lake Selitrennoye by July 1960.
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 24 Jun 60
The largest of the more than 3,000 salt lakes in the Kulunda Steppe
region is Lake Kuchuk, on the shore of which a sulfate combine is being
built. Having almost finished the 7-km-long main feeder canal, the builders
are now rushing to completion two pumping stations and other complex en-
gineering installations.
Rubber Raw Materials
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PLANT BEGINS METHYL STYRENE OUTPUT -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
1 Jun 60
The first methyl styrene, a raw material used in the production of
synthetic rubber, has been produced at the Ufa Synthetic Alcohol Plant.
The plant has pledged to get into operation by July 1960 two new shops
which will produce polyethylene and butyl alcohol.
NEW CARBON BLACK METHOD DEVELOPED -- Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 25 May 60
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Black carbon black, a rubber filler, is produced in connection with
he combustion of natural gas. For colored rubber products, white carbon
lack is needed. A new, technologically simple, and inexpensive method
f producing white carbon black has been developed at the Vinnitsa Super-
hosphate Plant.
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The first dozens of tons of "belaks," as the new product has been
named, has been dispatched to the-Kalinin Artificial Leather Combine.
Shoe sole leather manufactured with it has been characterized by increased
microporosity and elasticity. Vinnitsa "belaks" can be used as a filler
in the production of 200 types of industrial rubber products. Vinnitsa
chemists are now developing another so-called ammonia method of deriving
white carbon black.
Synthetic Rubber
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NAIRIT MADE IN SEVERAL TYPES -- Yerevan, Kommunist, 22 May 60
One of the products made by the Yerevan Plant imeni Kirov is "nairit,"
an.:important type of synthetic rubber widely used in the USSR. It com-
bines good qualities of resilience and elasticity with characteristics of
great resistance to deterioration by benzene, oil, and ozone.
"Nairit" is used in the cable industry and in the production of indus-
trial rubber products as a substitute for lead and natural rubber. In the
footwear industry, type NT "nairit" is used in place of natural gutta-percha.
A new type, "liquid nairit," is-used for covering and hermetically seal-
ing equipment, structures, and installations.
!'Nairit" is the cheapest of all rubbers made in or imported into the
USSR. The Seven-Year Plan provides for considerably greater output of t
this product through expansion of existing facilities and construction of
new plants. The most important technological measure to be undertaken is
continuous polymerization of chloroprene, the starting monomer in "nairit."
The present technology of periodic polymerization of chloroprene in batches
produces a product of widely varying characteristics and qualities. The
plant laboratory and the Yerevan affiliate of the Leningrad VNIISK (All-
Union Scientific Research Institute of Synthetic Rubber) have worked for
2 years on a special experimental installation for the continuous polymeriza-
tion of chloroprene. The research and experimental work has been concluded
and the new technology is now undergoing production-type tests.
The plant laboratory and VNIISK affiliate are also developing a new
method of determining the degree of polymerization. The method is based
on measurement of the speed of dispersion of ultrasonic waves in the emul-
sion and latex. The ultrasonic method for determining degree of polymeriza-
tion is advanced and precise; it also creates the possibility fdr automatic
control over degree of polymerization. So far, however, many technical
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Almost all technological processes except the polymerization process
in the production of "nairit" are now continuous at the Yerevan Plant imeni
Kirov. When continuous polymerization of chloroprene has been mastered,'-.a
fully continuous, fully automated technological cycle of producing synthetic
polychioroprene rubber, or "nairit," will have been created and standard
high quality of the product will be ensured.
RESIN RUBBER DEVELOPED -- Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 7 Jul 60
It was announced at the All-Union Conference of Chemists held in
Voronezh that the Voronezh Synthetic Rubber Plant imeni Kirov has devel.
oped and mastered the technology for production of resin rubber. Resin
rubber will permit the tire plants of the country to produce longer last-
ing motor vehicle tires than those made now.
Tires, Rubber Footwear
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NEW TRUCK TIRE LASTS LONGER -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 5 Jun 60
The Omsk Tire Plant has created a new type of truck tire for use under
the difficult conditions of mining operations. The new tire has a useful
life almost double that of an ordinary tire. Long-term testing of the new
tire in the pits of Siberia has proved its high quality.
FOOTWEAR STAMPED BY MODERN EQUIPMENT -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
19 Jun 60
The Leningrad Krasnyy Treugol'nik Industrial Rubber Products Plant
is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The plant has become a highly mech-
anized enterprise; it produces rubber footwear by the stamping process.
Conveyer lines have been installed in some shops. One Mars-200 automatic
control station is in operation; another is being installed. All shops
are provided with the latest equipment.
Plastics, Chemical Fibers
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MOLDING MATERIAL HAS VARIED APPLICATIONS -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva,
21 May 60
"AG-4" is a new plastic molding material.named after its developer,
Moscow engineer Aleksandr Stepanovich Gulyayev. The new plastic is only
one fourth as heavy as steel, withstands heavy pressure, will not burn,
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and is more durable than some types of?alloy steel. It may be used to
produce boats, and also electrical equipment which will be suitable for
long term use under temperatures exceeding 200 degrees. Other products
which may be made from "AG-1" include window sashes, window frames, doors,
vats, and drain pipes.
SOURCE OF FURFURAL DEMONSTRATED -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 21 May 60
Nina Solomonovna Tsitsishvili, head of the Department of Organic
Chemistry, Tbilisi State University, has demonstrated that grape vine
prunings, now usually burned by kolkhozniks, contain pentosans which,
after appropriate processing yield furfural, a raw material for the pro-
duction of:fsynthetic fiber.
POLYPROPYLENE FIBER TO BE EXHIBITED -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva,
21 May,60
The All-Union Scientific Research Institute, of Synthetic Fibers re-
cently created an unusual material, polypropylene, from petroleum process-
ing residues. Polypropylene is the strongest and lightest of all existing
rtificial fibers. It resists acids and alkalis, does not become water-
logged, and serves as an excellent filter. It retains its elasticity even
undei the extremely cold conditions of the Soviet Far North.
From polypropylene fabric, it will be possible to produce ladies'
3Yiirts, blouses, jumpers, and other kinds of consumer goods.
The new fiber will soon be seen in the Chemical Pavilion at the Ex-
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FIRST LA.VSAN FROM EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY -- Moscow, Pravda, 1 Jul 60
The Kursk Synthetic Fiber Plant, under. construction on the outskirts
of Kursk, produced its first lavsan fiber when an experimental facility
went into operation on 30 June 1960. The builders of. the plant have pledged
to get the main building into operation ahead of schedule.
PLANT TO START WITH-VISCOSE CORD FOR TIRES -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 8 Jun 60
The large artificial fiber combine under construction near Balakovo
in Saratovskaya Oblast will produce-mainly viscose cord for the tire in
dustry. The first stage of the enterprise will be ready for production
in 1961. A facility for the production of staple fiber and cellophane 1;
will"go into operation later.
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FIRST STAGE OF CAPRON FACILMIY COMPLETED -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 14 Jul 60
The Barnaul Artificial an+ Synthetic Fiber Plant is one of the most
important construction projects in the Altay region. It is already pro-
ducing viscose tire cord and carbon disulfide; experimental production of
synthetic fiber has also begun.
The builders of the plant had pledged to put the first stage of the
capron production facility into operation by July 1960. They have honored
their pledge. A building with a total area of 90,000 sq m has been erected,
and over 11000 units of technological equipment have been installed. To
provide automatic operation of most production processes, over 3,000 units
of control and measuring equipment have been installed. Air conditioning
equipment with a productivity of 80,000-120,000 cu m of air per hour, man-
ufactured by Altayskiy Kray machine building plants, has been put in place.
Fertilizers, Pesticide
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OUTPUT UP, COSTS DOWN, EXPANSION UNDER WAY - Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya,
20 May 60
Rail shipments of phosphate fertilizer, superphosphate, sulfuric acid,
and other products leave regularly from the.Maardu Chemical Combine. The
combine has pledged to exceed the 1960 phosphate fertilizer plan by 2,500
tons.
Reconstruction work was recently done in plant No 2, doubling its out-
put. At present, the superphosphate shop is being reconstructed; this is,
expected to effect a 50-percent increase in production.
Costs have been cut to the point that the combine is operating in the
current quarter without government subsidy. To enable the combine to ful-
fill the Seven-Year Plan for fertilizer production in 5 years, mining
operations are being expanded and construction, of a flotation plant speeded
up .
ANOTHER AMMONIA PRODUCER BEGINS OUTPUT -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
9 Jul 60
A large ammonia production facility has gone into operation at the
Kemerovo Chemical Combine. Its product will be used for fertilizer production.
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The Kemerovo Chemical Combine, built by Construction Trust No 96 in
the outskirts of Kemerovo, produced its first ammonium nitrate on 20 June
1960. During the rest of 1960, the plant will produce tens of thousands
of tons of fertilizers.
NEW MIXED FERTILIZER CREATED -- Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 14 Jun 60
Ammonium nitrate and superphosphate have been the main fertilizers
used on USSR cotton fields. Now the Chirchik Electrochemical Combine, in
cooperation with the Academy of Sciences Uzbek SSR, has created a new min-
eral fertilizer, a mixed nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer which it has named
SUM-1. The fertilizer appears as small white, flaky crystals. It contains
24 percent fixed nitrogen and 10 percent phosphoric oxide (phosphoric
anhydride).
Production of SUM-1 fertilizer is more economical than output of other
fertilizers. It is possible to produce from the same amount of raw material
one ton. of potassium nitrate or 1,165 kg of SUM-1 and 275 kg of calcium
nitrate...,.he calcium nitrate may be used as a fertilizer or as a defoliant
on cotton plants prior to the harvest.
The Chirchik Electrochemical Combine has set up an installation in
its mineral fertilizer shop to produce mixed fertilizers, and the plant
is now preparing for large-scale output of SUM-1 fertilizer.
COTTON PESTICIDE SHOWN TO BE EFFECTIVE -- Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya,
'13 Jul 60
The Kurgan Medical Preparations Plant has begun production of phyto-
bacteriomycin, useful in the struggle against cotton plant bacteria. Tests
4ave demonstrated its effectiveness.
Sulfur Dioxide
PRESERVATIVE CONTAINER SHORTAGE AGAIN POSES THREAT IN FOOD CANNING SEASON --
Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 2 Jul 60
The 1960 fruit and vegetable canning season is about to begin. To
carry it out successfully, supplies;of liquid sulfur dioxide must be avail-
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The Chernorech'ye Chemical Plant in Gor'kovskiy Sovnarkhoz is a pro-
ducer of liquid sulfur dioxide. However, in 1559, the plant had to stop
making deliveries in mid-season when it ran out of shipping containers.
Liquid sulfur dioxide is usally shipped in cylinders which the consumers
are supposed to return.
In the winter, many sovnarkhozes usually display little interest in
sulfide dioxide cylinders; but with the advent of summer, orders flow to
Chernorech'ye from all parts of the country. However, the Stalinabad Can-
ning Combine, for example, has not yet returned any of the 180 cylinders
.sent there; 2,627 cylinders, or about one third of the chemical plant's
total inventory, are still in the Ukraine.
Because the cylinder shortage was often the reason that canning enter-
prises failed to fulfill their plans, an attempt was made to increase the
number of cylinders from 9,000 to about 20,000. The Gor'kovskiy Sovnarkhoz
requested, pleaded, and demanded, but all in vain. Rosglavmetallosbyt
[Main Administration of Metals Sales RSFSR] in 4 successive years refused
to increase cylinder production.
Another way to alleviate the existing situation is to create bulk
stations in areas where large quantities of sulfur dioxide are needed.
The Ukrainian SSR is the largest consumer of sulfur dioxide. In May 1960,
the Chernorech'ye Chemical Plant requested Ukrglavkhimsnabsbyt [Main Ad-
ministration of Chemical Supply and Sales Ukrainian SSR?] to organize
storage of sulfur dioxide in tanks, from which orders for smaller quantities
could be filled. The request was immediately refused with the explanation
that the various Khimsnabsbyt offices and the major sulfur dioxide consumers
lacked favorable conditions for organizing bulk stations as well as the
cylinders that would be required to distribute bulk supplies.
It seems strange that the Ukraine, which consumes over 400 tons of
sulfur dioxide annually, cannot organize a bulk station, while the In-
ozemtsevo Wine Plant Stavropol'skiy Kray, a mere 25-ton per year consumer,
has the capability. Bulk stations must be organized in all areas that have
a recurring need for sulfur dioxide. They are the solution to the shipping
container problem. -- S. Shashkov, deputy director, Chernorech'ye Chem-
ical Plant
Alcohol
NINE ALCO90L PLANT BUILDINGS IN, OPERATION SOON -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya
Pravda, 13 Jul 60
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SEAWEED POWDER SUBSTITUTES FOR STARCH -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
8 Jul 60
The Ivanovo textile mills use thousands of tons of starch annually
to finish fabrics. The Ivanovo Scientific Research Textile Institute
(IvNITI) and specialists from the kokhma Cotton Combine, seeking a sub-
stitute for starch, tested a powder which they had made of seaweeds ob-
tained in Arkhangelsk. The-results were xcellent. It was estimated
that this product could replace at least 0 percent of the starch now
used in the textile industry of the',country.
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Compressors
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NEW COMPRESSOR TO BE USED IN GAS SEPARATION PROCESS -- Moscow, Promyshlenno-
Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 27 May 60
The Moscow Kompressor Plant, the main supplier of refrigerating
equipment to enterprises for the large-scale production of chemicals,
has shipped a new-type compressor to the Sterlitamak Synthetic Rubber
Plant, It has been designed for cooling the industrial process of
separating hydrocarbon gas. The new machine has two heat-removal ca;--
pacities, 6800000 and 510,000 kilocalories/hr.
NEVSKIY PLANT SOLE DEVELOPER OF COMPRESSORS -- Leningradskaya Pravda,
9 Jun 60
Soviet industry is in dire need of a specialized plant for the
production of compressors, because the facilities of the Leningrad
Nevskiy Plant, the only enterprise developing compressors and compressor
units, are quite inadequate for satisfying the needs of the industry.
Pumps
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PUMPS FOR CHEMICALS AND METALS -- Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviyaj
17 Jun 60
The Akmolinsk Pump Plant [the Akmolinsk Chemical Equipment Plant] has
completed the first pump for toxic organic liquid compounds weighing less
than ordinary water. Instead of lubricating oil, its packing glands will
be filled with gas, the use of which will be instrumental in achieving a
high vacuum. The plant has also started the assembly of a new type of
pump for concentrated sulfuric acid. It will be capable of delivering the
acid to a height of 300 meters.
Bucharest, Revista de Chimie, Vol 11, No 6, 1960 p 364+
A metallurgical plant in Riga has begun the series manufacture of
Vumps for liquid metals, destined for the chemical and metallurgical
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DELAY EQUIPMENT FOR CHEMICAL COMBINE - Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
15 Jun 6o
The Lisichanak Foundry and Machinery Plant (director; Mel'nikov),
the Poltava Turbine Machinery Plant (director; Zudin), and the Yaainova-
taya Mine Development Equipment Plant (director; Kuznetsov) (Yasinovataya
Machine Building Plant?] have not yet started filling important orders
for the chemical combine under construction in Lisichansk.
III,. PETROLEUM AND GAS INDUSTRIES
Production and Reserves
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OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION REPORTED FOR FIRST HALF OF 1960 -- Moscow,
Sovetskaya Rossiya, 13 Jul 60
The Central Statistica]. Administration of the Council of Ministers
USSR reports that 70#7 million tons of crude oil and 22.5 billion cu m
of gas were produced in the USSR in the first 6 months of 1960. This
was 15 percent more oil and 29 percent more gas than produced in the
same period of 1959.
(Comment: According to press reports, in the first quarter of
1960, the USSR produced 34.5 million tons of oil and 11.9 billion cu m
of gas, which was 16 percent more oil and 30 percent more gas than in
the same quarter of 1959. The targets for 1960 are 14+4 million tons of
oil,, 11,2 percent more than in 1959, and 53.2 billion cu m of gas, nearly
40 percent more than in 1959.+1
MORE MULTIPLE COMPLETION OIL WELLS TO GO ON STREAM IN KRASNODAR REGION --
Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 27 May 60
Krasnodar -- Three more multiple completion oil wells are scheduled
to go on stream in the Kuban River Valley of Krasnodarskiy Kray in 1960.
The Chernomorneft' Oil Field Administration already has on stream a
quintuple completion well that is producing 3-4 times the oil being pro-
duced in adjacent conventional wells. The verticle hole of the quintuple
well runs to.a depth of nearly 2,000 meters, from where five offset holes
deviate in d i fi -Feren+ ti i rP r,+i nn a
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Kuban specialists have developed an electric drilling rig for drilling
multiple completion wells.
CONMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-STRATA GAS FIELD BEGINS IN UZBEKISTAN --
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 12 May 60
Andlzhan -- Commercial development of the new multistrata Severnyy
Sokh Gas Field in the eastern part of the Fergana Valley has started.
Three of the six discovered strata are being developed. Some of the
natural gas wells, which penetrate to various depths, are each producing
up to 100,000 cu m of gas daily.
The as from the field is fed into the Severnyy Sokh-Fergana and
Severnyy Sokh-Kokand gas lines. The search for gas in this area still
continues.
SOVIET POTENTIAL GAS RESERVES ABOUT 60 TRILLION CUBIC METERS -- Bucharest,
Revista de Chimie, Vol ii, No 6, 1960, p 352
The Soviet Union's proven natural gas reserves are estimated at
more than 19 trillion cu m... Considering that many regions in Siberia and
in the Central Asian republics have not yet been geologically explored
sufficiently, the nationas potential gas reserves are estimated at about
60 trillion cu in.
INCREASE IN GAS RESERVES ANTICIPATED IN UZBEKISTAN -- Tashkent, Pravda
Vostoka, 14 Jun 60
By the end of 1965, the gas reserves of Uzbekistan will be the second
largest in the Soviet Union; only the RSFSR will rank higher. Geological
exploration during 1959-1965 is expected to be more effective in Uzbekistan
than elsewhere in the USSR. Geological exploration costs in Uzbekistan
are expected to be 50 percent below the average throughout the USSR.
It is anticipated that three or four gas fields will be discovered
in Uzbekistan in 1960. Two fields were discovered in 1959 and one field
in 1958.
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DRILLING IN AZERBAYDZKAI BEHIND SC MULE -- Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy,
6 Jul 60
Some 20,500 meters more hole were drilled in the Azerbaydzhan oil
industry during the first 6 months of 1960 than in the some period of
1959. The drilling offices of the Leninneft', Azizbekovneft', and the
Siazanneft' oil field administrations, and drilling offices No 3 and
No 5 of the Aznefterazvedka Trust exceeded their goals for both explora-
tory and development drilling. Nevertheless, the goals throughout the
Azneft' Association were fulfilled only 9I. percent for exploratory
drilling and 98.4 percent for development drilling. Efforts to fulfill
the goal for faster drilling speed also failed, and drilling costs per
meter increased 37.50 rubles in exploratory drilling and 3.40 rubles
in development drilling.
Only 65.8 percent of the drilling time is being used productively
throughout the industry. Some 11-.3 percent of the working time was
spent to eliminate the 96 breakdowns that occurred in drilling during
this 6-month period. Even though the drilling of superdeep holes in
Azerbaydzhan requires the use of durable bits, the bits produced in
Baku are shipped elsewhere because of poor planning. The Baku drillers
are supplied with bits from Perm' that are unsuitable for use in the
rock of Azerbaydzhan. t
DRILLING TRUST CONVERTING TO SLIM-HOLE DRILLING--- Baku, Bakinskiy
Rabochiy, 12 Jun 60
A1'met'yevsk -- The Al'met'yevburneft' Trust is doing more and more
slim-hole drilling. It expects to convert completely to this type of
drilling in 1962.
PROSPECTORS SEARCH FOR MORE GAS IN ARCTIC CIRCLE REGION OF SIBERIA --
Moscow, Trud, 5 Jul 60
Yakutsk -- Drilling rigs of the Severoyakutskiy Geological Explor-
ation Expedition are getting closer to the Arctic Circle, and prospect-
ing operations are expanding following the discovery here of rich natural
gas deposits with reserves of more than 25 billion cu m of gas. One crew
completed a well to a depth of 3,502 meters within a short time at the
Bergeinskiy site.
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IMPORTANT GAS STRIKE MADE IN KARAKUM DESERT OF TURKMENISTAN -- Moscow)
Trull) 25 May 60
The small village of Darzava in the Karakum desert of Turkmenistan
has been becoming an important gas, center since geologists brought in
a powerful gas well several kilometers from the village in May 1959.
Since this discovery) an expanded drilling program has been under
way. Another powerful gas well was produced on 20 January 1960) and
two more wells have been produced since then. More than 500 billion
cu m of gas was discovered through the exploration of some 3)500 sq km
of as bearing area of the Darzava deposit. Besides gas) there is
crude oil in this region.
There is some discussion about building a gas line from Darzava
through Bukhara toward the Urals, instead of from Gazli [in Uzbekistan]
through Bukhara. The new route would be 300 km shorter.
TENTH GAS FIELD FOUND IN UZBEKISTAN -- Tashkent) Pravda Vostoka,
10 Jul 60
Another gas field, the Severnyy Mubarek field) has been found in
Uzbekistan. This is the tenth gas field discovered in the Kzyl-Kum
desert of the republic. The discovery w0_1 flowed more than one million
cubic meters of as per day.
GAS FOUND IN KEMEROVSKAYA OBLAST, RSFSR -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy)
23 Jun 60
A flowing natural gas well with a pressure of 281130 atmospheres
has been brought in from a depth of Li2O meters near the village of
Borisovo in the Krapivino area. The new discovery is located 70 km
from Kemerovo. The newly discovered gas bearing site is about 7 km
long and 2 km wide.
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SEARCH FOR OIL IN SIBERIA BRINGS RESULTS IN TYUMENSKAYA OBLAST --
Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1 May 60
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A well with a daily output of 30 tons of .833 gravity crude oil
has been brought in by geologists in the northern part of Tyumenskaya
Oblast, some 350 km from Tyumen and 220 km from Serov in the Ural
Mountains. The well was completed to a depth of 1,428-1,436 meters
in the Jurassic formation. It is estimated that this initial output
will be doubled eventually.
Laboratory tests showed that the oil contains up to 50 percent
light fractions. Four more wells are being drilled in this region to
evaluate its prospects.
OIL FIELD FOUND IN KU BYSHEV REGION -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva,
12 Jul 60
Another oil field has been found in the Yuzhno-Kuybyshevskiy
oil bearing region, where geological prospecting has been expanded
on a broad scale. The discovery well, with an output of more than
200 tons of high-grade light crude oil per day, was produced from a
depth of about 1,900 meters near the village of Blagodarovka in the
steppe on the eastern side of the Volga.
MORE OIL FOUND IN UDMURTSKAYA ASSR -- Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya,
8 Jun 60
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Udmurtskaya ASSR. Of the 26 deep test wells drilled in the republic
to date, 15 turned out to be flowing wells. The :latest discovery is
near the village of Tarasovo, along the right bank of the Kama River.
[Note: Tarasovo is located south of Sarapul near the republic's
boundary line on the northeastern part of the Bashkirskaya ASSR. The
Udmurtskaya ASSR also borders on the Tatarskaya ASSR and Permakaya
Oblast.]
The oil reservoirs in the Udmurtskaya ASSR lie at depths which
favor development by means of inner and outer water flooding; to main-
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The commercial reserves of the previously discovered Vyatskiy field
have been evaluated and permission has been granted."l-to start development
there.
Prospectors are expanding their search for oil in the Udmurtskaya
ASSR by means of deep structural drilling and seismic exploration in
the areas of Sarapul, Grakhaovo, Nylga, and elsewhere.
Refining
NEW STATE STANDARDS TO BE ESTABLISHED FOR MODERN ENGINE FUELS Moscow,
Standartizatsiya, No 4, Apr 60, p 11
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The All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Oil and Gas, in
association with the Azerbaydzhan, Checheno-Ingushskiy, Kuybyshevskiy,
and Bashkirskiy sovnarkhozes, is expected to develop state standards
for new brands of fuels for the modern high-compression engines,
2uwe 5e a-power diesel engines, and gas-turbine engines. The question
of developing such standards came up at an 8 February 1960 conference
of the Committee on Standards, Measures, and Measuring Instruments.
About 75 percent of the brands of petroleum products produced by
the USSR oil industry, including 70 percent of the liquid and gaseous
fuels, 83 percent of the lobe oils, and 75 percent of the greases, are
produced according to specified standards.
PARTIALLY BUILT REFINERY ALREADY PRODUCING PETROLEUM PRODUCTS -- Tashkent,
Pravda Vostoka, 7 Jun 60
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Oil Refinery is already producing gasoline, diesel fuel, and mazut.
The new enterprise has succeeded in other respects besides going on
stream before its completion. The crude oil coming from its desalting
unit contains 28-35 milligrams of salt per liter instead of 50 milligrams
as permitted by norm. The crude of the Vannovskiy Oil Refinery, on the
other hand, contains 80-110 milligrams of salt per liter. The Fergana
refinery has also improved the extraction of light products at its
atmospheric-vacuum still.
The refinery was at first producing mazut of low quality but this
has been remedied by light cracking in the primary distillation unit.
The quality of mazut has improved, and the extraction of light products
and diesel fuel has increased.
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GAS LINE TO BE BUILT IN FAR NORTH REGION OF SIBERIA -- Moscow, Trud,
16 Jun 60
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The Soviet Union plans to lay a gas line about 400 km long over
permafrost ground in its Far North Region during the Seven-Year Plan.
The line will connect Yakutsk (the capital of the YekatskayaASSR),
Pokrovsk (a brick producing center), Bestyakh (where a huge cement
plant is under construction) and the nearby villages of Zhatay, Markha,
and. Tabaga with a huge natural gas deposit of more than 21 billion cu
m that has been discovered in an area near the mouth of the Vilyuy
River. The construction plans for the projected line are being drawn
up by the Gipropodzemgaz Institute.
GAS LINE OPENED TO GROZNYY -- Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya, 21 Jun 60
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Groznyy A gas line has been placed in service from Achaluki
to Groznyy. The new line, 77 km long, runs via Karabulak.
Gas has now replaced coal as fuel in the Novogroznyy TETs [Heat
and Electric Power Station].
IV. SOLID FUELS
Coal
NEW COAL DEPOSITS SURVEYED -- Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 24 Jun 60
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Geological surveyors of Rudnyy Altay have completed a preliminary
survey of the recently discovered Belokamenskiy deposit of bituminous
coal. Altay coal has a low ash content and a calorific value of 8,000
calories. The selection of technological samples has been completed at
the Kenderlykskiy deposit of coal and bituminous shale. Trial (probnaya)
extraction of bituminous coal has been started in this deposit, located
in the depths of Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast.
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SOLID FUEL REPLACED BY GAS AT KRASNYY DVIGATEL 1`PiiANT - Tashkent, Pravda
Vostoka, 8 Jun 60
Samarkand -- With the advent of Bukhara gas, there have been many
changes in the Krasnyy Dvigatel' Plant imeni V. 1. Lenin. Firsts gas was
used to replace solid fuel; then gas was used to help maintain the nec-
essary temperature of the molten metal after it went from cupola furnaces
to the special apparatuses from which it is taken to be poured into molds.
The next problem is that of replacing coke with gas. Recently one
of the cupola furnaces was converted to as and the others are to be
converted also. Replacing coke with gas will result in a saving of about
2+0,000 rubles per year.
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YTISKIY RAYON IMPORTANT FOR ESTONIAN SHALE INDUSTRY -- Tallin,
Sovetskaya Estoniya, 19 Jun 60
Five underground shale mines and one open-pit shale mine, the
Vivikond, are located in Yykhviskiy Rayou,Es-tonian SSR. In the near
future., one more underground mine and the largest shale open pit in the
USSR will be put into operation here.
The mines are provided with powerful equipment, including cutters,
electric locomotives, and highly productive conveyers. The first experi-
mental shale-preparation mill in the world, which has been built at
Mine No 10, will prepare shale by the sedimentation method.
Although the shale industry of the rayon is young, it has achieved
good production indexes. At present 83 times as much shale is being
extracted as in 1947. In 1965, the shale industry of the Estonian SSR
will produce 50,000-54,000 tons of shale daily, and Yykhviskiy Rayon will
be responsible for 40,000-45,000 tons) or 80-83 percent of this amount.
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Ore Extraction
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TUL'SKAYA OBLAST IRON ORE TO BE EXTRACTED BY OPEN-PIT METHOD --
Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 2 Jun 60
A large deposit of iron ore, discovered near the city of Kireyevsk,
Tul'skaya Oblast., will be mined by the open-pit method. Tula miners have
accumulated extensive experience in the use of this effective method.
Mechanized pits have been put into operation and the working front has
been equipped with walking excavators. Production costs per ton of raw
material for blast furnaces have been cut almost in half.
The Tula Iron Ore Administration is a profitable enterprise. Its
workers have determined to extract at least 88 percent of all ore by the
open-pit method by the end of the second year of the Seven-Year Plan.
KUSTANAY IRON ORE EXTRACTION TO INCREASE -- Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya
Pravda, 15 Jun 60
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At the end of the Seven-Year Plan period, the Kustanayskiy Economic
Region will hold third place in the USSR in the extraction of iron ore.
Agglomeration Installations
NOVO-TULA PLANT TO HAVE LARGE AGGLOMERATING MILL -- Riga, Sovetskaya
Latviya, 7 Jul 60
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Within a little more than a year, the framework of a large agglomerat-
ing mill has risen beside the blast furnace shop of the Novo-Tula Metal-
lurgical Plant. The first agglomerating belt has been put into operation
and 10,000 tons of high-grade fluxed agglomerate have already gone to the
blast furnace shop of the Novo-Tula Plant.
Installation and testing of equipment entering into the complex of
the second agglomerating belt are being completed. Before the end of
1960, the third and last belt will also be producing.
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AGGLOMERATING MILL CINDER CONSTRUCTION AT NOVO-LIPETSK PLANT -- Kishinev,
Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 2I+ Jun 60
The construction of a large agglomerating mill has been.started at
the Novo-tipetsk Metallurgical Plant. It will be a highly mechanized
and automated enterprise. The first unit of the mill will be put into
operation in 1962.
Blast Furnaces and Pig Iron Production
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FIRST KARAGANDA BLAST FURNACE IN OPERATION -- Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya
Pravda, 3 Jul 60
On 2 July 1960, at 1837. hours,, the first blast furnace of the
Karaganda Metallurgical Plant was blown in; it will produce its first
pig iron on 3 July. This will be the first pig iron produced in the
Kazakh SSR.
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda., 7 Jul 60
Only a few days have passed since the first blast furnace of the
Karaganda Metallurgical Plant started operating and there are already
many customers for its products. The plant shipped the first consign-
ment of pig iron to enterprises of Tashkent and Fergana. Pig iron is
also ready for shipment to the Stalinabad Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze,
EARLY COMPLETION PLANNED FOR YENAKIYEVO BLAST FURNACE -- Kiev,_Pravda
Ukrainy, 23 Jun 60
It is planned to blow in the Komsomol blast furnace which is being
built at the Yenakiyevo Metallurgical Plant on 1 October 1960, one month
ahead of schedule. The new furnace will produce 1.5 times as much metal
as the old one.
CHEAPEST UKRAINIAN PIG IRON Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 30 Jun 60
The Dneprodzershinsk Metallurgical Plant imeni Dzerzhinskiy produces
the least expensive pig iron in the Ukrainian SSR. This plant has just
started to issue products above the 1960 half-year plan.
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CHUSOVOY BLAST FURNACE OPERATORS ACHIEVE HIGH PRODUCTION INDEX -- Moscow,
Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 25 Jun 60
The Chusovoy Metallurgical Plant has produced thousands of tons of
pig iron above the 1960 first half-year plan. A number of the blast
furnace operators of the plant have achieved the high coefficient of 0.55
in the utilization of the working volume of their blast furnace.
NEW BLAST FURNACE TECHNOLOGY CALLS FOR USE OF MAZUT -- Moscow, Ekonomiche-
skaya Gazeta, 1 Jul 60
Blast furnace operators of the Chusovoy Metallurgical Plant, in
cooperation with associates of the Ural Institute.of Ferrous Metals, have
developed a new technology for producing vanadium pig iron in a blast
furnace with the use of mazut.
Results of the first experimental melts indicated that the liquid
fuel considerably improves the technical and economic indexes of the melt.
The productivity of the furnace rose 9.5 percent, consumption of coke was
cut 10 percent, and the quality of the pig iron improved.
ALCHEVSK:IY PLANT USES NATURAL GAS IN PIG IRON PRODUCTION -- Moscow,
Moskovskaya Pravda, 8 Jun 60
The first pig iron has been produced with the use of natural gas
at the Alchevskiy Metallurgical Plant imeni Voroshilov Luganskaya Oblast.
This has resulted in steadier operation of the bia,st furnace, an increase
in the temperature of the blast, a rise in the productivity of the
aggregate, and a 10-percent saving in expensive coke.
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NEW CHARGING DEVICE -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 23 Jun 60
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Innovators at the Kazakhstan Metallurgical Plant have designed
an original device for the mechanized charging of a cupola furnace.
Tt consists of an inclined bridge and an automatically operating
bucket. The entire cycle of operations lasts l'i/2 minutes.
Open Hearth Furnaces
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TRANSCAUCASUS.PLANT REBUILDS OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka,
17 Jun 60
Workers of the Transcaucasus Metallurgical Plant imeni I.Y. Stalin
with'the collaboration of the construction and installation personnel
have completely reconstructed open-hearth furnace No 1 in record time.
The capacity of the furnace has been increased by many thousands of tons
per year. On 15 June 1960, the new open-hearth furnace produced its
first steel.
LARGEST OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE IN OPERATION AT CHEREPOVETS PLANT-- Moscow,
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The construction of a new open-hearth furnace, the largest at the
plant, was completed more than 2 months ahead of schedule at the Cherepovets
Metallurgical Plant. On 12 July, gas will be supplied to the working area
of the furnace. Its early start will enable the steel workers to produce
tens of thousands of tons of extra metal. In a few days the aggregate
will produce its first heat.
UZBEK PLANT STEPS UP STEEL PRODUCTION -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
7 Jun '60
The Uzbek Metallurgical Plant has more than doubled the planned
capacity of its open-hearth furnaces, considerably reduced the production
cost of steel, and carried out 90 percent of the heats by high-speed
methods. Steel production per square meter of open hearth area has
averaged 10 tons. Now the operators are endeavoring to extend the running
period of the furnaces between repairs to 600 heats.
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ZAPOROZH'YE OPEN-HEARTH FURNACES HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE -- Moscow, Ekono-
micheskaya Gazeta, 25 Jun 60
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At the Zoporozhtye Metallurgical Plant the production of steel per
square meter of hearth area rose from 8.7 tons per calendar day in 1956
to 9.82 tons in 1959; in 1960 it has already exceeded 10 tons. Thus the
185-ton furnaces have produced during the year an average of 228,000 tons
of steel each and certain operators have produced 237,000 in their furnace.
Continuous Steel-Pouring Installations
LARGEST UNIT BEGINS PRODUCTION -- Moscow, Pravda, 12 Jul 60
On 11 July 1960, the largest installation in the world for the con-
tinuous pouring of steel was put into operation at the Stalino Metallurgical
Plant. Finished billets and slabs may be obtained on this installation
within a few minutes. The processes of pouring the metal into molds and
rolling ingots on blooming or slabbing mills are eliminated.
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The installation is placed alongside the open-hearth furnaces in
a large, unusual pit, 25 meters in diameter and 30 meters deep. The steel,
tapped from the furnace into a teeming ladle, is brought to the installa-
tion and poured into an intermediate ladle, from which it enters crystal-
lizers where the shape is imparted to the billet. The molten metal, passing
from the crystallizers, enters into a zone of secondary cooling and, grad-
ually moving downward, continues to solidify. At the 18th meter of its
course, the hardened metal is cut to a fixed length by a moving oxygen
cutter. Then the billets are tilted by an automatic mechanism from a ver-
tical to a horizontal position, moved to roller conveyers, pushed onto a
special platform, and delivered by hoist to the surface, where they are
loaded onto railroad flatcars and sent to the sheet rolling mill.
This entire production,'cycle, converting 140 tons of molten steel
into finished billets, takes about one hour.
NINE INSTALLATIONS IN OPERATION IN USSR -- Moscow, Agitator, No 11, Jun 60,
p 20 . ?
A new, progres6ive, continuous method of,pouring steel is being
introduced in the USSR. Although only two experimental installations
for the continuous pouring of metal are in operation in the US, there
are already nine in the USSR.
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Ferroalloys Production
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NEW TYPES.OF.FERROALLOYS FROM AKTYUBINSK PLANT tt Alma Ata, Kazakhstanskaya
Pravda, 8 Jlin 60
At the beginning of the second year of the Seven-Year Plan, an exper-
imental shop was put into operation at the.Aktyubinsk Ferro-Alloys Plant
where ferroalloys workers are conducting successful scientific investiga-
tions. Now Aktyubinsk builders have completed a new experimental shop
for the metallurgists.
In this shop, the process of obtaining ferrochromium is different
from that used in other shops. The metal will be'obtained not in electric
furnaces or by the converter method but in vacuum furnaces. This will
mean entirely new and high-quality types of ferroalloys for the t'SSR.
Rolling Mills
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CHEREPOVETS SHEET.ROLLING MILL COMPLETED -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 28 Jun 60
Several years ago, the metallurgical base of the north, being con-
structed in Cherepovets, had one blast furnace. Later installations and
units included several more large blast furnaces, large-capacity open-
hearth furnaces, agglomerating mills, coke batteries, a blooming mill, and
a 2800 rolling mill.
Today [28 JuneVj the largest 1700 sheet mill in the USSR and Europe
is being put into operation. It is an extension of the 2800 plate mill
and is assembled in a line with it. Thus the construction of the sheet
rolling shop is completed.
In 1961, the enterprise will put into operation another large blast
furnace, a coke battery, three 250 agglomerating mills, a cold rolling
shop, open-hearth furnaces, and a number of other installations.
Leningradskaya Pravda, 24 Jun 60
Tests of the main units of the 1700 rolling mill are being continued
at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. Several strips have already been
rolled on the working stands. This aggregate'is an extension of the 2800
plate mill put into operation at the plant in November 1959. It will pro-
duce sheet steel 1.8-8 mm thick and up to 1.5 meters wide.
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LATVIAN METALLURGICAL PLANT ACQUIRES NEW ROLLING MILL -- Moscow, Izvestiya,
2 j4 l 60
A 350 section-rolling mill has been put into operation at the Sarkanays
Metalurgs Plant in Liyepaya, Latvian SSR. This mill has 1.5 times the
capacity of the existing mill and with the start of its operations the en-
terprises output of section rolled stock will be more than doubled. The
control of the aggregate is automated..
NEW UNITS FOR PLANT IMENI UJ ICH -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
16 Jun 60
In 1961, the Zhdanov Metallurgical Plant imeni Il'ich will acquire
the following new units] one 1150 slabbing mill, a mill for cold rolling
sheet steel, and one new open-hearth furnace shop. The plant will become
the largest metallurgical enterprise in the southern part of the USSR.
USSR CLAIMS ROLLING MILLS EXCEED US MILLS IN CAPACITY -- Moscow, Agitator,
Nn 11 T r ~n on
Soviet rolling mills exceed American rolling mills in productivity.
For example, the USSR has continuous, hot rolling sheet mills with a yearly
productivity of 3.5 million tons while the productivity of the most power-
ful mills in the US does not exceed 2 million tons.
Pipe Production
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NEW METHOD FOR PREPARING FLAT-WELDED PIPE -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 9'Jun 60
The Institute of Welding imeni Paton has worked out a simple ana very
economical method of preparing thin-wall flat-welded pipe for the petroleum
and gas industries. Two steel strips, 200-280 mm wide are laid on each
other, welded at the edges, and wound in a roll. Delivered to an oil well,
such a roll is unwound in a strip up to 250 meters long. Air is forced
into nozzles welded to both ends of the flat strip, which is inflated into
a pipe.
Twenty-one fewer railroad cars are needed to transport 100 km of such
pipe 114 km in diameter than to transport the same amount of pipe made by
ordinary methods. Production of the new pipe has been mastered by the
Zaporozh'ye Metal Structures Plant.
A consignment of the new pipe has been sent to petroleum workers of
Bashkiria.
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CHELYABINSK PLANT TESTS PIPE-WELDING INSTALLATION -- Minsk, Sovetskaya
Belorussiya, 30 Jun 60
Construction of a large shop for the furnace welding of pipe has
been completed at the Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant. Test runs of
aggregates are under way. The pipe-welding installation has been com-
pletely mechanized and the production process has been extensively
automated. In the near future the shop will issue its first products.
Moscow, Pravda, 15 Jul 60
On 14+ July 1960, the new shop for the furnace welding of pipe was
put into operation at the Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant. The shop,
which has no equal in capacity in the USSR, will produce hundreds of
thousands of tons of pipe annually. Its first products are already being
shipped to Siberia and Kazakhstan.
NEW PIPE-WELDING SHOP PRODUCES FIRST SIBERIAN PIPE -- Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 17 Jun 60
An electric pipe welding shop has been put into operation at
Novosibirsk Metallurgical Plant imeni Kuz?min and the first Siberian
pipe has been obtained.
Now hundreds of enterprises and structures of Siberia and the Far East
will be provided with local products. This will improve delivery and per-
mit a saving of tens of millions of rubles for railroad transport.
KHAR'KOV BUREAU DESIGNS FURNACE FOR HEATING WELDED PIPE -- Minsk,
Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 24 Jun 60
A highly productive furnace for heating and quenching welded pipe
made of stainless steel has been designed by the Kharkov Elektropeche
Design Bureau with the collaboration of specialists of the Moscow
Elektropech? Design Bureau and a number of other enterprises. The
furnace is more than 4+0 meters long including equipment for loading and
unloading.
The pipe will be heated by electric current in an atmosphere of
protective gas, and will be quenched in a water spray. The design pro-
vides for complete automation and continuous operation of the furnace.
One operator can manage the furnace from a panel with push button
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MOGILEV PLANT PRODUCES PIPE BY.SEMICONTINUOUS METHOD -- Minsk, Sovetskaya
Belorussiya, 8 Jun 60
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perience of the experimental installation of the Sinarskiy Pipe Plant in
the city of Kamensk-Ural'skiy, has become the first plant in the USSR to
master mass production Of cast iron pressure pipe by the semicontinuous
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NEW COKE BATTERIES -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 26 May 60
New coke battery No 6 has been put into operation at the Krivorozhstal'
Metallurgical Plant.
Moscow, Pravda, 3 Jul 60
On 2 July 1960 another large coke battery, the second since the
beginning of the Seven-Year Plan, was put into operation at the
Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. On 3 July the new battery will pro-
duce its first coke.
ZAPADNYY SIBIRSKIY COKE-CHEMICAL SHOP UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- Kishinev,
Sovetskaya Moldaviva. 24 Jun 60
The construction of a coke-chemical shop has been begun at the
building site of the Zapadnyy Sibirskiy Metallurgical Plant. The large
coke batteries will be equipped with the most modern domestic mechanisms
and instruments.
VARIOUS SOVIET, ENTERPR1SES;:TO REDUCE :CONSUMPTION OF NONFERROUS METALS --
Moscow, Planovoye Khozyaystvo, No 5, May 60, pp 60-65
VI. NONFERROUS METALLURGY;,,',,
Metal Conservation
Despite constantly increasing production of nonferrous metals and an
anticipated increase by 1965 of 100-200 percent over 1958 output, there
still remain shortages of nonferrous metals in the USSR. All efforts must
be made to conserve nonferrous metals and to use them more efficiently.
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By altering the design of its water radiator, the Moscow Small Dis-
placement Motor Vehicle Plant can save about 75 tons of rolled brass
annually and decrease the consumption of lead-tin solder.
At the Moscow Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Likhachev, copper tubing
in the fuel system will be replaced by steel-copper tubing and by
aluminum tubing, thereby saving 1QO grams of copper per ZIL-164 and
200 grams of copper per ZIL-150.
The Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant is putting into production a new
type of radiator for its trucks; each of these radiators will require
640 grams less copper and 300 grams less rolled brass. In addition to
a significant conservation of nonferrous metals, the plant will save up
to 6 million rubles annually.
Considering that millions of steam fittings and plumbing fixtures are
produced and that large amounts of nonferrous metals are used in their
production, old designs should be revised with the view of decreasing
their size and wall thickness. By this expedient alone the consumption
of nonferrous metals could be cut by at least 50 percent in the manu-
facture of such products.
In the cable industry much has already been accomplished in sub-
stituting other materials for copper and lead. During the past 5 years,
more than 200,000 tons of copper and lead were conserved as a result of
new cable designs and perfected methods of production. In 1959 the
cable industry produced 58 percent of its cable output with aluminum,
instead of copper conductors and more than 60 percent of its cable
sheathing with aluminum and plastics instead of lead.
The total saving of copper as a result of producing cable with
aluminum conductors during the next 7 years will amount to about 400,000
tons, based on the rate of copper consumption in 1958. Some 300,000
tons of lead will be saved by 1965 under the same conditions., Mean-
while, the absolute consumption of lead, disregarding the total growth.
in cable production, in 1965 will be lower than in 1958.
Copper and Molybdenum
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CYCLONE METHOD URGED FOR SMELTING COPPER CONCENTRATES -- Alma-Ata,
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 21 Jun 60
The BS,lkhs.s.h: Miifting',s,nd:-. etallur.gical Combine started jexperimenting
with the cyclone method of smelting copper concentrates in 1957. The
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proved highly satisfactory, with the following results: the volume of
the charge which was smelted in the cyclone furnace was twice as great as
with conventional furnaces, the copper content of the matte was 1.5
times as great; and 50 percent less fuel was consumed.
Such results would indicate the desirability of introducing the cy~-
clone method on an industrial scale, yet the construction of.such an in-
dustrial furnace had not yet been started as late as the first quarter, of
1960. It was only after the oblast party organization interceded that
the construction of such a furnace was recently put into full swing.
CONSTRUCTION OF COPPER-MOLYBDENUM COMBINE LAGS -- Yerevan, Kommunist,
2 Jui -60
Operation of the first section of the Agarak Copper and Molybdenum
Combine has been scheduled for the third quarter of 1961. However, con-
struction of the combine is proceeding at a slow pace,
% Operation of the first section presupposes the completion of an
open-pit mine, a concentration mill,.; a high-voltage electric power line
linking Kadzharan and Agarak, and a number of subsidiary shops.
By the end of 1961 an area of more than 10,000 sq m will be
quired for the living quarters of workers employed by the combine,
but only 900 sq m has been planned.
Lead and Zinc
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DRILLING RIG INCREASES PRODUCTION IN LEAD-ZINC MINE Alma-Ata,
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 21 Jun 60
A pneumatic percussion-type drilling rig installed on a DT-54+
tractor at the Kayraktinskiy Lead-Zinc Mine in Karagansinskaya Oblast
has doubled the labor productivity of drill operators at that mine.
Manganese
GEORGIAN SSR MANGANESE INDUSTRY TO EXPAND -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka,
12 Jul 60 .
An especially important component of the manganese industry in the
Georgian SSR will begin operation in 1960. The enterprise will include
a new mine and the new Darkveti Concentration Mill.
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NEW GOLD-MINING DREDGE OPERATING IN TRAITSBAYKAL - -Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 2 Jul 60
A new gold-mining-dredge was recently put into operation at the
Klyuchi Mine in Mogochinskiy Rayon. It was iii operation 3 months ahead
of schedule'and processes up to 8,000 cu m of rock daily.
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SEVERAL KAZAKEH MINES SHOW STANDSTILL IN LABOR PRODUCTIVITY -- Alma-Ata,
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda,. 9 Jun 60
Labor productivity in a number of mines in the Kazakh SSR re-
mained at the same level in 1959 as it was in 1953. This was true of
the Achisay, Berezovka, and Belousovka polymetal mines, among others.
VII. METALLURGICAL EQUIPMENT
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WORLD'S MOST PRODUCTIVE ROLLING MILL UNIT -- Moscow; Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 7 Jun 60
The Novo-Kramatorsk Machine Building Plant has started work on
equipent for' a, cold-rolling shop of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical
Combine. The basic unit of the shop will be the most productive in the
world and will operate in'conjunction with a 2500 hot-rolling mill. The
rolling process will be fully mechanized and automated, with a .special
butt-welding machine joining the metal into one continuous strip.
EQUIPMENT FOR MODERNIZING ROLLING MILLS -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 7 Jun 60
The Novo-Kramatorsk Machine Building Plant will produce equipment
a month ahead of schedule for the modernization of the 1700 continuous
strip rolling mill at the Zhdanov Plant imeni I1'ich. All technical
documents have been developed, and over 1,000 tons of various parts and
mechanisms for this mill have already been produced.
The Novo-Kramatorsk Plant is also accelerating the delivery of equip-
ment for the modernization of the 1680 mill at the Zaporozhstal' Plant. In
the first 6 months of 1960, the plant will produce several above-plan ore-
grinding mills for the Krivoy Rog combines, and two hydraulic hoists for
the Bukhtarminskaya GES (Hydroelectric Power Station).
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A 420-ton-capacity foundry crane is now being produced by the plant,
which is also developing engineering plans for the world's largest dump-
forming bridge.
PLANT PRODUCES METALLURGICAL, FORGING EQUIPMENT Moscow, Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 3 Jun 60
During the Seven-Year Plan, the Elektrostal' Heavy Machine Building
Plant is planning to produce 31 hot-rolling pipe mills and 85 cold-
rolling pipe mills with a high degree of mechanization and automation in
all operations.
The plant is now working on a unit for rolling pipes 30-102 mm in
diameter at a speed of 700 meters/min, and with a productivity of 350,000'
tons per year. A similar pipe mill in the US has a rolling speed of 270
meters/min and a productivity of 220,000 tons per year.'
The plant is being specialized in the production of pipe mills,
medium graded-stock mills, and ore-concentration, crushing, and grind-
ing equipment.
Moscow, Leninskoye Znamya, 16 Jun 60
The Elektrostal' Heavy Machine Building Plant has recently completed
and stand-tested the second 30-ton-capacity forging manipulator.
BLOWERS, COMPRESSORS FOR METALLURGICAL PLANTS -- Moscow, Promyshlenno-
Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 22 May 60
The Leningrad Nevskiy Machine Building Plant has sent to the Krivoy
Rog Metallurgical Plant a powerful blower with a capacity of 6,500 cu m
of air per minute and a unit consisting of a compressor and a steam tur-
bine.
Moscow, Mashinostroitel', Jun 60, p 40
,The Leningrad Nevskiy Plant has developed plans for a blower unit
for the largest blast furnaces in the world with capacities of 2,000 cu m
and over, which will be constructed during the Seven-Year Plan. The centri-
fugal compressor of this blower installation can deliver 5,500'cu m of.a.ir
per minute and build up a pressure of up to 4.5 atmospheres. Its condenser
type drive turbine has a capacity of 22,000 kw and is designed for high
initial parameters of 90-atmospheres pressure at 535-degrees temperature.
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The new unit will be 15 percent more economical inooperation than
blowers currently used in ferrous metallurgy.
MILL FOR DRAWING WIRE FROM MOLTEN ALUMINUM -- Moscow, Prornyshlenno-
Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 27 May 60
The [Dneprodzerzhinsk] Dneprovskiy Machinery Plant has completed
ahead of schedule a continuous mill for drawing wire from molten aluminum.
This unit has 13 stands and is completely mechanized although only par-
tially automated.
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