METALLUGICAL PRODUCTS FOR PRIVATE CONSUMERS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY`
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION ii
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Metallugical Products for Private
Consumers
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 6 May 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. Since 1950 the distribution of metal lurgical..products to private consumers has
been made through Centrocommetal; which has a number of distribution centers
known as Intrepr?indere Pentru Comertul de Stat (ICS - State Trading Enterprises).
A distribution plan is worked out and submitted to the State Supply Commission
(CSA), and after confirmation of the plan by the Commission, supply contracts
are concluded with the appropriate factories,, After the reorganization in.
1950 Centrocommetal established an ICS in every town of importance, whereas
previously there had been a so-called State Store only for each district. The
largest ICS are the following: Ferometal in Bucharest (with 80 sales centers),
Curtea de Fier at Stalin (Brasov), Fierul at Cluj, Otelul at Oradea, and Banatul
at Timisoara. A further reorganization is planned for 1 May 1952 under which
each Centrocom is to set up 10 to 15 regional depots for the supply of its ICS,
and the contracts with the suppliers are to be concluded by these depots as
wholesale dealers,
Private consumers receive the following products:
a.
b.
Bars: flat, round, square and angle-irons.
Sheet iron up to 4 M. thick.
c.
Galvanized sheet iron.
d.
Tin plate.
e.
Cold-rolled iron for the manufacture of drawing pins, locks and padlocks,,
f.
uniform buttons, iron heel and toe protectors for shoes@
Hot-rolled iron for barrel hoops.
g.
Nails
h.
Water and gas pipes.
i.
Iron wire and chains.
J.
Cast iron products?
k.
Kitchen stoves.
l.?
Nails for horseshoes.
m?
Pitch forks.
n.
Various other tools,,
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Before the State Supply Commission?was set up, only products a. to i. (above)
were distributed by Centrocommetal, Later 90 per cent of the other products
listed above were also controlled, and only products made of cast iron re.
mained outside the scheme,
3. The following quantities of metal were allocated for private consumption in
the first three months of 1951:
a,
Iron bars
3,000 tons
b.
Sheet iron
750 tons
c,r
Galvanized sheet iron 300 tons
d.
Hot-rolled iron
50 tons
e.
Nails
100 to 120 tons
f.
Water and gas pipes
200 tone
For some time prior to this, there had been no quota of either white sheet iron
or cold-rolled iron for private purchasers.
4. Private consumption during 1951 may be estimated from the following figures?
In 1950 and 1951 steel production was estimated at 350,000 to 460,000 tons
annually, divided as follows:
a.
Resita
200,000 to 250,000 tons
b,
Hunedoara
100,000 to 150,000 tons
c,
Otelul Rosu (formerly
Ferdinand)
50,000 to 60,600 tons
Private consumers received their allocation from the production of Hunedoara
and Otelul Rosu only. Resita, except for steel billets for pipes turned over
to Malaxa and billets for products other than those listed above, rocessed
its entire steel output itself, making only its not sold to private con-
sumers,
5. Metallurgical production of the type purchased by private customers consists
of the following quantities per year:
a. Steel sheets (up to 4 mm) 30,000 tons
b. Iron billets 4,000 tons
co Cold-rolled iron 1,200 tons
dm Iron bars, reinforcing iron, nails, iron wire,
chains and pitch forks 132,000 to 134,000 tons
(The IMD Braila and Industria Sarmei
(Braila) factories are the main sources
of products for private consumption,)
e. To these figures must be added the production of iron
wire, rods for reinforced concrete, and nails made by
the Industria Sarmei at Campia Turzii as well as the
nail production of the Grivita Factory in Bucharest
and the I.C. Frimu (formerly Costinescu) factory at Sinaia,
A certain reduction must be made for iron wire used to manufacture nails which
appears under "production" in both forms above,. but no details of quantities are
known.
6. Otelul Rosu produces sheet iron 500 by 500 mm and up to 4 mm thick, It is the
only factory in Rumania to produce steel billets (4,000 tons annually) and
cold-rolled iron (1,200 tons annually). The factory has old rollers and little
machinery for the production of cold-rolled iron because this type of pro-
duction was just begun when the former owner, Auschnitt, had to leave. There
is a shortage of water in this area which causes stoppages of work.
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The Nadrag Factory (formerly.Auschnitt) at Nadrag produces sheet iron 650..
by 1000 r:nu and up to 4 mm thick, , and is the only factory in Rumania to
produce;whhite tin plate,
The Titan Factory (formerly Auschnitt) at Galati produces sheet iron oneahalf
a.square ,meter large and up to 4 mm thick,
94 fl ; Braila (formerly Goldenberg Brothers) produces iron bars, nails, iron wire
and chains. ?Its capacity is approximately 4?000 to 5,000 tons per month.
10. Tiadustria?Sarmei$ Braila, produces iron bars, rods for reinforced concrete and
iron wire for nails. Its capacity is approximately 7,000 tons per month.
11. The T.C,-Frimu Factory at Sinaia produces nails. In 1950 the factory also
began to produce spare parts for automobiles.
12, Industria Sarmoi,at-, Caf$pi.a Turzii produces.-iron products including rods for
reinforced concrete, iron wire and nails, electric cable (copper), soldering
wire, and special steels for the production of files, automobile parts and
.other machine parts. Its total production in 1950 was 100,,000 tons. In the
same year the factory received 10?000 tons of billets from Poland to be
processed and returned as rods for reinforced concrete1 In May or June 1951
the installation ofa very large Boeh.er and Blechman electric furnace Rest
mss: p],ete~c,` to':. bibs toad for the manufacture of fine steels? These
"fine" steels are not identical with the "special" tool steel previously
manufactured by the factory.
13. Hunedoara produces various types of steel billets, mainly those two meters
long and 65/65 mm thick for wire, for DM Braila and for Industria Sarmei?
at Braila Ahd at Cafnpia'Turzii, It also produces cast iron pipes for
drainage, spades and pickaxes.
14. The following products, part of them for private use, are imported from the
USSR,.Hungary and Czechoslovakia: Steel billets, angle iron and sheet iron
up to 4 mm, Rumanian production is insufficient and for this reason the
private consumers often receive no allocation. In 1950 metallurgical products
were imported from Poland and Czechoslovakia along with 10,000 tons of coke.
The coke was simply dumped on top of tlv;,metals, and these could not be re-
trieved until the coke, v ia.ch was sent to Resita and Hunedoara, was finally
used up almost a year later. Not more than 15 per cent of the above imports
are allocated for private use.
i15. The State Supply Commission has two special depots for imported products,
one at Iasi for imports from the USSR, and the other at Stalin (Brasov).
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