RUMANIA

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16 May 1936, "D~.e Chemieche lndustxie," No. 20
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An agreement hau been concluded between the "First Rumanian Ex-
plosives Factory" and the "Hermes" Vegetable ail Refinery, which re-
Gently expanded its installations in order to produce nitroglycerine.
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erine cr a~ least 100,000 kilograms per Vear to the First Ru-
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23 May 1936, "Die Chemische Industrie," Na. 21
Except far the State Powder Factory, the Rumanian explosives in-
dustry is limited to a single firm in Fagarae. This company has a -
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capital of 89.2 million lei, operating power of 623. horsepower, and
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a payroll of 159 persons working in the following units; gelatine ~ �
explosi gyres s black pc~wd~;r, s~.ow z~~atches, aiid fuses . ps,
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The fallowing amounts of raw materials were used in 1933 �
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� S~,zlft,ric acid 363 tans

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Ammonium nitrate 80 tons
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Glycerine 2T.8 milliom lei.
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Aninit 9 tons
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Asetia 7 tons w5
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Dacit 18 tans s"
Dynamite ~ 386 tens
Also 338,000 balls of fuse r~,ter~,al and slew fuses.
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L August 1936, "Die Chemische Industrie," No. 31
The Cosa-Miea~Cugir plant ha,s started production of nitroglycerine,
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nitrogenous compounds, s,nd explc?~ives,
The Petroseni Corporation has started production of activAted
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, 1 August 1936, "Die Chemische Tndustrie," No, 31
The First Rumanian Explosives Factory is building a new plant ~
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22 August 1936, D3.e Chemische Industrxe, No. 34
Anew corporation known as Nitrart~nia" has been founded in
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Bucharest. Eighty percent of its capital is insured by the First
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Rumanian Explosives Company in Bucharest, Tie new company has a
'j:~~'! capital of 35 million lei and will produce mainly nitrie acid and 1
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nitrates. The Imperial Chemical industries, Ltd,; Lc~z7don, Dynamit-
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1 December 1939, "l~achrichton fors Anssehandel," No. 280
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. .4 new corporation] known as "Armor~,,was founded in Bucharest.
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It will have a capital of one million lei and will handle imports of
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arms ammunition, optical instruments, hunting equipment, etc,
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Nearl all e losives factories in R~~rnanian belon to the State
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Faragas~" in Transylvania; this ~.s a private company, bu~? the State
has monoply rights over the sale of products.
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. 16 kugust 1940, "Die Chemische lnduscrie," i~u. 33 ~ ~
Next to heavy chemicals, the explosives and c~tona~~ii~ rr~ate~^~ia1s -
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industr is the mast important chemical sub-group. ~'eaxly production
about l" taillian R1~2. Employees number between 1, 200
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and 1 00. At the beginning of 1939, 510.6 million lei were invested
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~ Production is mainly in the hands of the First Ru~anian Explosives y;
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an in Bucharest which produces about 1,000 tons per year of ex-
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losives and i20 to 130 tons oT~ aleck powder. In its factory in Fora-
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,i tr�monia Corporation, which, howevex, manufactures only basic materials
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for the exp~,osives industry. The sale of explosives is a State menop- ,ri
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oly; it netted the government 12.1 million lei in ~.937I38.

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Explosivi~, in Bucharest, founded in 1920, has a capital of 110 m~.llion ~
lei part of which is State-owned. The Nobel combine also owns someof
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she stock, through tine Dyna~i p
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Production takes place ~n a large ~acuory In .~a{~~iar~ ~Sz~Nan~~--p- ,
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er to in 270 persons. It includes d~inamite and explosives of all sorts, ,t,~
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turned over to the mcnopcy adm~:nistr~.~ ion 982 tails. Cf explosives ar:c.
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of 0 million lei, was founded in 1936 by
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ammonium nitrate, and other basic materials for the
whexe ~.~.tric aci ,
' - manufacture of explos~.ves are made.
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25 ~]uly 1941,
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Tn 1940, 1,140 tons o xp
' to 1 2 2 tons in 1939. During the first quarter of 3
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1941, 78 tons were sol . ~
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three months of 1941.
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' 6 March 1942, "Die Chemische Tndustrie," No. 9 l0
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ation "Campine Metallurgical Workshops" was founded
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Sales of explosives by tine moLlop~y,r w~~~,.w~ _
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