ELECTROCHEMISCHES KOMBINAT BITTERFELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R013300020001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/08: CIA-RDP83-00415R013300020001-0
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z no e roc emisc es Ko ina EE;lectro-Chemical Combine) in Ditterfeld.
'.I.'lie EK Bitterfeld is one of the h Jree GDRL industries permitted to produce certain
nonferrous alloys; these alloys are used in products which may not be made with substitute
mater:I.als. The alltys produced at lsitterfeld include: Special brass, Solis 68, consisting
of 68 copper, the balance zinc and hardeners. Zinc bearing metal, consisting of 92
of 99 pure zinc, 5 copper, 2 % lead, and 1 % tin; this metal will support a compression
of 250 kg/cm2 . Zinc-aluminum-copper alloys for precision work; this alloy, said to be
enual to the best lead bronze, mmmth contains 53 % zinc, L15 % aluminum, and 2 copper.
Ilarde ied lead bearing, metal consisting of 98 ;% lead, 0.62 cadmium, 0.01 ' silicon, 0.02
aluminum, and small additions of sodium and calcium. The plant also produces lead bronzes
which contain no tin; these so-called binary- lead bronzes conin 75 `I copper and 25 %
lead.
nonferrous metal alloys;
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in the first quarter of 1952 the plant produced 1480 tons ox-
the average nrocuction of about 164 tons
per month cannot be increased.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/08: CIA-RDP83-00415R013300020001-0