CSEPEL IRON AND STEEL WORKS LOCATION, PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 20, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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PROOF SIN MP-yj
INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
S-E-C-R-E-T
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Csepel Iron and Steel Works
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DATE DISTR.
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DATE OF
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report concerning the Csepel Iron .!Al
and Steel Works. Althoug)i the information is old, the report is being made
available for what value it may have. The report gives the following in--
formation: r
1. Location of the plant and its subordination to the former%Ministry of
Metallurgy and Machine Industry.
2. A list of the departments of the Metallurgical Trust and the Machine Trust,
both of which came under the Csepel Iron and Steel Works.
3. Administration of a large plant with the cover name of "Nagyt8meg" (large
crowd) by the director general of the Csepel Iron and Steel Works. Also the
administration of the which exports electrical current to
Czechoslovakia, by the director general of the Csepel Iron and Steel Work
4. Description of the buildings and equipment of the pipe plant; number of
employees and monthly output; quality of the products; marketing of the
plant's output; customers of the plant.
5.
11 personalities who
products.
were concerned with the Csepel Iron and Steel Works or the marketing .of its
6. A sketch, with explanatory legend, showing the relative location of the various
principal sections of the Csepel Iron and Steel Works.
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1. The Csepel Iron and Metal Works (Csepeli Vas Es Femmtivek) covers
an area of five square kilometers on Imre Square, Csepel Island.
It was formerly called the Rakosi Matyas Works and, originally
the Weisz Manfred Works. The plant is subordinate to the ',Iinistry
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of Metallurgy and Machine Industry (Koho Es Gepipari Miniszterium,
KGM), which is located at No. 5/6 Szabadsag Square in Budapest V.
2. Since the status of the director general (allamtitkar) of the plant
is tantamount to that of a deputy minister, the plant is under the
direct control of the Minister's office. The director general is
assisted by two deputies, one of whom is responsible for the
Metallurgical Trust (Kohaszati Troszt), while the other is respon-
sible for the Machine Trust (Gepeszeti Troszt). The Metallurgical
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Trust comprises a pipe factory (csogyar), a steel mill (acelmu),
a rolling mill (lemezgyar-hengerde), alnetal plant (femmu), an
electrode factory (elektrodagyar), a foundry (ontode) and a
laboratory. The Machine Trust comprises a bicycle factory
(kerekpargyar), a motorcycle factory (motorkerekpargyar), a
sewing machine factory (varrogepgyar), a crane factory (szerkezet)
es emelogepgyar), a machine tool factory (szerszamgepgyar), a
plant manufacturing prototypes of machines (egyedi gepgyar),
auxiliary plants (segeduzemek) and a laboratory. Each of these
components of the Csepel complex has its own :management.
3. The large plant located opposite the Csepel Works on Imre Square
is a separate unit with the cover name of Nagytomeg. Although it
is officially under the direct administration of the director
general, it is in fact under military control and works in
accordance with orders issued by the Ministry of Light Industry
(Kozepgepirai Miniszterium - KGM-B), located at No. 12 Teleki
Pal Street and No. 24 Arany Janos Street in Budapest V.
14. The director general also controls the power station, which
supplies current to all of the above as well as to Czechoslovakia.
The amount of current exported -- between the hours of 2200 and
0600 -- is said to oe considerable.
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5.
The pipe factory, the only one of its kind in Hungary, comprises
the following buildings:
a. A brick building which is 50 x 60 meters in size, has
a gabled, gray tile roof, and serves as a store for
finished products.
b. A brick building which is 50 x 90 meters in size, has
a gabled, gray tile roof, and serves as a store for
finished products.
c. A brick building which is 50 x 180 meters in size, has
a gabled roof (a wood construction with flat or corrugated
sheet iron) and serves partly as a shop for the cold-
drawing of pipes (hideguzem) and, to a lesser extent,
as a finishing shop.
d. A building which is approximately 80 x 4100 meters in
size, has a gabled roof as that described in c. above,
and serves in part as a shop for the hot-drawing
(meleguzem) tube mill of pipes and in part as a finishing
shop.
e. A building which resembled the ones previously described,
where steel sheets are rolled and seam-welded into tubes
and rust proofed.
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f. A two-story building which serves the management
and administrative offices.
6. The equipment of the plant consists of the following:
a. At the shop for cold-drawing of tubes there are
four drawing benches (vonopod) of 100 tons each,
six drawing benches of 75 tons each, eight drawing
benches of 50 tons each and twelve drawing benches
of less than 50 tons each. Two of the 100-ton
machines are new (made by Csepel) while All of the
others are obsolescent. The shop employs the
Mannesmann method.
b. At the shop for hot-drawing of tubes there are
six Pirger sets (sic), two sets of machines for
drawing tubes with a diameter of over 134 mm.,
which serve primarily for oil drillings (nagysori
csovek), two sets for drawing medium-diameter tubes,
54 - 131 mm. (kozepsori csovek),and two sets for
drawing tubes with a diameter of less than 54 mm.
(kissori csovek). The shop employs the Mannesmann
method.
c. At the tube-making shop (seam-welding) there are two
net automatic machines installed which make tubes with
diameters between 2, 1, 12 and 2 inches.
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7. Among others, tubes supplied to the army are coated at the coating
shop. The process is applied only to tubes of up to two inches,
since this width is in the greatest demand.
8. The plant employs approximately 3,500 workers, of whom 1,000 are
skilled workers, 1,800 are unskilled workers and apprentices, 30
are engineers and technicians and 670 are administrative and
managerial personnel.
9. The cold-drawing mill and the two Pirger sets at the hot-drawing
mill making tubes of less than 54 ima. in diameter operate on a
three-shift basis. The other shops work in two shifts.
10. About one-third of the raw materials -- steel billets (buga)
and rods (ontecs) -- of various lengths and diameters is obtained
from the Csepel foundries, while about two-thirds is obtained from the
Ozd and Diosgyor foundries.
11. The monthly output of the plant is approximately 40,000 tons of
pipes, with an emphasis on the production of tubes of up to 134
mm. in diameter for domestic consumption. However, the plant
continues to manufacture pipes with a diameter of more than 1311
mm., for discontinuation of this branch of production would
necessitate the dismissal of many skilled veteran workers. As a
result such pipes, which are not much in demand, are stocked in
the stores of the plant. It was only recently decided to utilize
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them for industrial building because of the shortage of timber
and cement.
12. The tubes manufactured are of inferior quality partially because
of the poor standard of the raw materials. The quality of the
produce is furthermore affected by the hurried pace which workers
tend to work toward the end of the month and before completion
of the quarterly production period. From 70 to 80 percent of the
basic material consists of scrap cast anew, which did not meet
the standard. The proportion of rejects is 40 percent of the
output. As a result, only 20 percent of the produce is Grade A.
20 percent is Grade B and the remainder is of very inferior quality
and can be used only for purposes where little tensile strenght
is required.
13. The marketing of the produce is done by Kohert (Kohaszati
Ertekesito Vallalat), located at No. 113 Stalin Road in Budapest.
This company is a separate directorate (ipargozgatosag) of the
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Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Industry. It is directly
controlled by the Minister's office and executes the marketing
of all plants under the Ministry's authority. The directorate
also comprises a special department which supplies the require-
ments of the armed forces. The above applies to the marketing of
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consignments not exceeding ten tons (consignments exceeding
ten tons are sent directly to the client), in which case the
products are transferred to one of the five stores of Ferroglobus,
the central storage agency of Kohert. These five stores are
located at the following addresses in Budapest XIII:
a. At No. 88 Vaci Street (steel sheets and tubes of
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Grade 2).
b. At No. 80 Vaci Street (tubes Grade A).
C, At No. 2 Teve Street (tubes Grade A).
d. At No. 14 (?) Dlava Street.
e. On Arboc Street (steel sheets).
14. The following are clients of the plant which are supplied directly:
a. The Ganz Rolling Stock Factory
b. The Mavag Rolling Stock Factory and -,?iacLzine Factory
c. Sztalinvaros
d. Zalalovo (oil drilling center)
e. Mezokeresztes (oil drilling center)
f. Emag Machine Factory
g. Kismotor Es Gepgyar (for small motors and machinery)
h. Tiszapalkonya (chemical works under construction).
15. The following persons are reported:
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Sandor Cseki
Laszlo Qyor'
Bela Horvath
Bela flies
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e. Laszlo Kererri
g. Laszlo (?) Lonta.il
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h. Bela ProkopiuO
i. Sandor Szikra
j. Mihaly (?) Wagner
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16. Attached is a legend and sketch of the Csepel Iron and Metal Works.
Comments:
Now the Ministry of Foundries and. Machine Building.
2. Probably Grade B is intended.
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1. Direction of Imre Square
2. Railroad line
3. Two-story building for the management and administrative offices.
It. Finished products store
5. Finished products store
6. Cold-drawing tube mill (hideguzem)
7. Finishing stiop
8. Hot-drawing tube mill (meleguzem)
9. Finishing shop
10. Seam-welding tube plant and rust-proofing
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