ECONOMIC - IRON AND STEEL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230082-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: May 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEL&IAGENCY KEPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY ussR
SUBJECT r,^oncuic' - Iron and steel
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED U885
DATE
PUBLISHED 30 Mer-24, Apr, 1949
LANGUAGE
SoURGE Soviet newspapers as indicated.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST..2 j May 1949
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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Ul 7AW 8TH PLM CO1Tm0E PBOli>iE -- Pravda Ukrainy, No 74, 30 Mar 49
Ferrous metal enterprises of Stalin Oblast have completed the first-
-guartor plan for production of steel and rolled iron. The Btalino and
Ob7biMsti Metallurgical Plants were the first in the Oblast to fulfill the
plan for the whole metallurgical cycle.
The Plant ;issni Petrovekiy in Dnepropetrovsk has fulfilled the first-
quarter plan for the whole metallurgical cycle.
irnatlya, go 89, 16 Apr 49
The Steel-801ting Plant lasni Dserzhinakiy in Dneprodzerzhinsk has so
for In 1949 oagFleted more than 800 Belts. One furnace is producing 9.5 tons
of steel per square aster of sole.
Pravda, No no, 20 Apo' 49 ; %
At the Stalin Metallurglpgl Plant, open hearth furnace No 5 has been put
under oosfplate automatic controY. As a result of this improvement, fuel ex-
penditur. is reduced 17 percent, steel workers' labor is greatly eased, the use
of refractories is lessened, and the productivity of the furnace in increased.
Two more furnaces are now being put under automatic control.
2MA 3 W)3BGIBhh A4H1avE 1950 PROldOCTION LNY -- Techerayaya Moskva,
No.92, 19 Apr 49
MMetallmgtsts If the Novo-Tul'skiy Metallurgical Plant have oaneideratly
increased the melting of pig iron and have achieved the average production
level set for 1930. The workers have achieved a coefficient of 1.01, the beet
in recent years, in the utilization of blast furnace capacity. The tuyere.4 of
blast furnace No 2 have been remodeled, and, as a result, 130 kilograms of ore
are saved fray every tan of pig iron.
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SMINCM STS PLANT MIA= CAPITAL -- Pravia, No 95, 5 Apr 49
The Stalingrad " raenyy.Oktyabr" Metallurgical Plant has releaeed.ebout
9, million rubles of, working capital for other production.
URA-m ST I. PLAIBTS RF.I'ORT Z CR T Pith -- Vechernyaya Moskva, No 92,
Zlatoust *tallurgical Plant'.imeni Stalin reached the 1950- production
open-hearth furnace operators c apleted more than 100, high-speed melts
during April, and welded 1,500 tone of steel, above plan.' The rolling mills
have also Jacked up their efficiency. Heavy sheet metal Rolling Mill."750"
managed by Titovyy has completely eliminated f lava.. Plant workers reduced.
production coats and made more than one million rubles profit above the plan.
Workers of Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Mill have put out a large consign-
ment of pipe above the plan in honor of the Tenth Congress of Trade Unitas
and have released nearly 700,000 rubles of working capital.
Oudok, No 46, 17 Apr 49
On 15 April 1949r a highly mechanized rail and structural iron Shop was
put into operative in the Novo-Tagil Metallurgical Plant. Complete mechaniza-
tion and automatization has been achieved. The basic components of the new
shop are the Rolling Mills "900" and "800." Mill "800" is composed of more
than 200 machines end mechanisms built in the Ural. Machine -Building Plant.
The rail and structural iron shop carries out the full production cycle of
the Jovo-Tagil Plant -- from production of pig iron to the output of finished
mile and girders.
Plants of "Glavuralmet" (Main Adsdnistratiea of the Ural Metallurgical
Industry) have fulfilled the first-quarter plan for the whole metallurgical
cycle. In comparison with the first quarter of 1948, pig iron smelting was
'ap 17.3 percent, steel smelting Was up 22.2 percent, and rollel iron output
was up 13.6 percent. Workers of the Terkh. Is, Nizhniy Tagil, Sushva,
Chusovoy, and Terkhnyaya Saldaplants especially distinguished themselves.
Pravda, so 96, 6 Apr 49
Trod, No 91, 19 Apr 49
Blast furnace operators, steel Workers, and rolling mill operators of
the Semi Metallurgical slant have exceeded their pledge to raise production
above the 1950 level, 25 percent for pig iron, 21 percent for steel, and 22
percent for rolled iron.
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Trod, R0 96, 24+ Apr. 49
Ti: Serov Metallurgical Plant Is striving to achieva excellent-quality
axsval. As a result; loss through waste has d ,reaeed 30 percent in the .fi:ret
quarter, thereby saving 5,200,000 rubles.
C J,CA6UB PJ AJ T STARTS NZW PNAct -- Zarya Yostoka, No 75, 19 Apr 49
";ne laying of tbo sole of open-hearth furnace No 1 of the Transcauoasue
Aietallurgical Plantain Rustavi hae been starts. it ie to be made`of re-
fractory brick.
The Xuar*t c Metallurgical Combine :ateni Stalin emeaeded the first-
quarter plan, for the entire metallurgical oycle. Thousands of tons of
Ple-irmi tee,; and rol]aod, iron were produced above the quota.
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