STARACHOWICE METALLURGICAL WORKS/ZGODA METALLURGICAL PLANT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000300010008-8
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Poland.
SUBJECT Starachowice Metallurgical Works/Zgoda
Metallurgical Plant
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2. The Starachowice Metallurgical Works produced chacis for both passenger cars
and trucks (1.5 to 3 tons). These chassis were we,led after having been stamped
and 'cleaned. Studies on production and its potent:41 increase were intended
with an eye to accepting orders for automobile assembly in Lublin. Customers for
chassis were Panstwowe Zaklady Inzynierii (State Etgineering Works) and Polski
FIAT (Polish FIAT).
3. Regarding armored cupolas, tank turrets were made cti single castings of high
quality electric steel. I do not know the compositon of the steel; it was
produced by the electric steel works.
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4. There was no basic difficulty in connection with thq dimensions of the castings.
Wei ht was limited by the efficiency of furnaces. he heaviest castings
at Starachowice electric steel works weighed tout eight thousand
ams. This was a roller for rolling equipment in a foundry. Three furnaces
were in operation at the same time. 50X1
5. Depending upon the quality of steel, with the maximm production load, and
not allowing for stoppages for repair (assuming prokuction is set up for one
type of steel), with an average of 15 to 20 heats w.th a two-day cooling
period, removing one casting and setting up for the following one, the average
production is assumed to be about 40 to 55 tons of iteel in a 24-hour period.
6. Two open-hearth furnaces with production capacity o: 16 tons each and three to
four heats per day produced
2 x 16 x 3
equals 96 tons to 128 tons
2 x 16 x 4
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The open-hearth furnaces operated on a charge consisting for the most ar
of scrap, particularly in production of ingots for artillery purposes. Li 50X1
instances of breaking-up and remelting old guns under superviaionof 50X1
military personnel. Large amounts of pig iron were also brought in from
Slask at least enough to satisfy requirements for casting. no 50X1
large source of scrap iron other than the Department of Defense which supplied
heavy scrap derived from Old demobilized equipment and engines.
7. Zgoda Metallurgical Plant at Swietochlowice,litowice Wojewodztwo is the key
plant for metallurgical and mining equipment nolosuresAandaa It produces
and repairs heavy 'metallurgical machinery, transportation equipment and coal
mine hauling equipment, and plant and port hoists and cranes. In 1945 special
heavy gears were made for tanks for the Soviet Arm7 under Soviet military
supervision. The full working crew of the plant (three shifts) totals two
thousand, including inotallstion workers. Ito got Aim 4'0 val IraireMA Of
engineering design.
8. This firm's electric power plant satisfies present requirements and is also
part of the Slask electric power system. The plant has four flame boilers with
an efficiency of approximately four to six tons of steam per hour. The build-
ing is of masonry with dimensions of 35 x 40 x 12 meters high.
9. The foundry specializes in large casts, as for example, wheels for mining
winches. The foundry is 40 x 40 x 12 meters high.
10. Machine shops are well equipped with heavy machine tools and tempering furnaces.
During World War II, 88 to 105 millimeter gun barrels were produced here. Machine
shops are housed in buildings of masonry construction about 16 meters high. The
roofs are of steel frame construction covered with boards and tar paper.
11. The shop in which structural steel shapes, hoists, and cranes are produced is
100 x 30 x 12 meters. This division handles practically all the repair work on
Szczecin and Gdynia port hoists and cranes.
12. The building which houses the management and the Bureau of Engineering Design is
30 x 20 meters and is four stories high.
13. The metallurgical plant cannot be camouflaged. It can be identified in its
relation to the location of Nowy Bytom and Swietochlowice.
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Enclosure (A): Map showing location of Zgoda Metallurgical Plant.
Enclosure (B): Layout of Zgoda Metallurgical Plant.
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NCLO SORE A LOCATION OF ZGODA METALLOGICAL WORKS
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ENCLOSURE (B) -- LAYOUT OF ZGODA METALLURGICAL PLANT
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Bytom 4 km.
1. On-the-Job Training Workshop
2.. Structural Shapes Division
3. Foundry
4. Tempering Shop
5, Machining Division
6. Electric Power Plant
7, Offices
8. Warehouse
Infirmary
10. Management and Bureau of
Engineering Design
11. Dump
12, Plant Hotel
13. Road Paved with Stone Blocks
14. Dump of Florian MetallurgiCal
Plant
15, Park
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To Swietochlowice 1,5 km
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