CZECHOSLOVAK CERAMICS ENTERPRISES, NATIONAL CORPORATION, IN PRAGUE

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• Publication Date: August 2, 1951
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Czechoslovak Ceramics Enterprises,
National Corporation, in .Prague
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1. The main offices of the Czechoslovak Ceramics Enterprises, National
Corporation, (CZ) are in Prague II, Vaclavake namesti 51. The general
manager of the corporation is Dr. B. Holatko. Since the reorganization
of industries in 1950 each major ceramics plant has its own general
usnagement which is in turn subordinate to the appropriate production
department of the general management of the Czechoslovak Ceramics Enter-
prises. There are five such production departments: raw materials, two
sections for fine ceramics, ceramic building materials and ceramic fire-
proof materials. The supply and sales department of the generalmarege-
ment of CKZ controls the supply of all raw materials and the distribution
of orders among the ceramics plants. Thus, the individual production
plants have jurisdiction only over plant personnel and operation and
other internal matters.
2. The following is a partial list and description of Czech plants producing
the various types of ceramic geode:
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a. Cement
Dvur Kralove, probably the largest aament plant in Czechoslovakia
Cizkovice, which produces the best Portland cement in Czechoslovakia
b. Kaolin
Sedlec (1151/1569) mines produce the best kaolin in the world
Chlumcany (750,02) mines
Kaden mines
PodborsAY mines
c. Clay and sand
ROCCO' clay pit (751/F20) is the most important in Czechoslovakia
d. Ceramic sanitary fixtures
Teplice? where production is considered to be poor
Znojno, the former firm. of Dittmar-Urbach
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e. Tile for export only
Horni Brim (N,50A05)
Rakovnik (N51/1,28), employe about 700 workers; manager is
Dr. Mag. Rannhaueer
Chlumoany, which produces the best tile in Czechoslovakia
f. Asbestos cement, known as Eternit? produced at a plant in
Beroun. The asbestos being imported from the USSR is in-
ferior to that formerly imported from Canada.
g. Chemical ware
Hrusov (P50/059) is the most important plant in Czechoslovakia
h. Fire brick and other heat resistant material, each as chamotte0
dinas and horhart, which are in short oupply. The inaustry
suffers from a lack of labor.
Vidnava near Ostrava
Letovice (P50/N34)
Raja? (P50,442)
Opatovice (P50/49)
Svitavy (P50/526)
. Industrial porcelain for electrical insulation, heating in-
stallations, crucibles and other laboratory uses. There are
seven national enterprises in this group, producing a total of
about 110000 tone per year.
1) Darklin Porcelain Factory at nerklin (N51/00)? employs about
600 workers and is veil equipped. It has a modern high ten-
sion (600,000 volts) testing hall. The manager is Klufa,
about 38 years old, a Communist. The plant produces in-
sulators for high and low tension lines.
Stepo Plant at Stara Role (01/P69)0 employs about 300 workers;
nanagar is V. Herman, a moderate Communist. This plant, Which
started production of industrial porcelain in 1945, produces
inaulators for high and low tension lines. It has a branch
plant in Struzna (formerly Kysibl N51/118), which employs
about 150 workers managed by Cisar? and produces a poor
grade of insulators and fuses for law tension lines. A second
branch plant is located in As and employs about 150 workers:
managed by Tauber. This plant produces insulators for low
tension lines and a good grade of pyrostat board,
3) Bohosudov Porcelain Factory (N51/F34), employs about 400
workers, managed by Jan Horejsi. This plant produces in?
sulators and other item for low tension lines, bottle
stoppers and more complicated electric lamp(sic). Production
is of variable quality; eviveent is old. A branch factory
is located at ',advice (N51/F23). It employs about 150 workers
and is managed by Jeroalav Nezbeda. This factory produces
insulators for high tension lines and the more complicated
items used on low tension lines. Plant machinery is not
modern.
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4) Jisera Porcelain Plant at Potocna near jablonec, employs
about 150 werkers, managed by Mg. Havlik, about 50 years
old. It produces high-grade porcelain for the textile
industry, although plant equipment is old. A branch
factory is located in Desna (051/036) which employs about
100 workers and is managed by Alexa. It produces labora-
tory porcelain and recently, after long tests, has suc-
ceeded in developing a porcelain in which the glaze is
melted into the base material and which will not crack.
This new porcelain is being tested at the newly establish-
ed Ceramics Research Institute at Hradec Kralove. It
will go on the market in April 1951 and may be needs if
it proves successful An use, for parts of jet planes.
A second branch plant is located at Raspenava (051/G1S).
This is a new plant which employs about 100 persons. It
produces bottle stoppers and items for low tension lines;
quality is below average. Other new branch factories are
located at Replica (051/027) and Libverda near Jablonee.
5) Lonny Porcelain Plant (N51/1'21) employing about 1,600
persons and managed by Rudolf &clinger, about 37 years
olds a Conmunist. This plant hes been modernized and Is
to be expended to 4,000 eorkers by 1955. The plant has
a modern tunnel furnace 1 and
a modern testing hall. Its production capacity or /ugh
tension items will bo very larva, probalAy doubling the
total Czech production of industrial porcelain although
only test production has been undertaken to date. A
small branch factory in Louny is slowly being abolished
and the employeee absorbed by the main factory. It pro-
duces items for both high and low tension,
6) Krknose Porcelain Plant in Zacler (051/G75) employs about
400 workersand is naged by S., Sohiller. It produces
items for law tension and ..eadably porcelain (sic). The
quality of porcelain production is average. It is planned
that the plant will produce electric lamps.* A branch
plant located at Kuks (051/373) produces a small number
of false teeth,
7) Electroceramic Plant in PregueeLiben employs about 150
workers and produces pyrostat equipment and ceramic, heat-
ing tubes. Production is snail and plant equipment is
old. A small branch plant located in Elena (N50/P60)
produces steatite items.
Abrasives
Denatky nad Jizerou plant produces oarborundam disks and files, and
paper and cloth-backed abrasives. The plant manager is lng.
Novak, Although the plant lacks raw materials, which formerly
came from Canada, it is believed that it is using some new,
very hard material in the production of abrasives.
k. Cooking ware, ornamental earthenware
Teplioe
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. Porcelain dinnerware, produced by four national enterprises, prim-
itively equipped for the moat part.
1) Thun National Corporation in Klastereo nad Ohri? employs about
450 workers; plant manager is Ruzicka. It hag a branch plant
at Lubenec (N51/P98).
2) Epiag National Corporation at Dvory near Karlovy Vary, employs
about 400 workers and is equipped with modern machinery and a
tunnel furnace. Branch plants are at Brezova (Birkenhammer)
and Buchan'.
3) Bohemia. National Corporation at NoloaRole (N51/1359) managed by.
Ing. K. Rutz, has a branch plant at Stara Role.
) Slaakov Porcelain Enterprise at Clavkov (N51/P68) has branch
plants at Chodov (1451/P59), which employs about 270 workers,
and Loucky, which employs about 150 workers,
Insulating material, including rock wool and heraolite board
produced by Banka a Rutni National Corporation in Kolin.
n. Brick is produced throughout Czechoslovakia, One of the largest
yards in the country is at Svitavy (P5026).
o Roofing tiles are produced primarily in southern Moravia
3. Very few raw materials needed by the ceramics industry must be imported.
Of those that do feldspar, which is imported from Sweden and Norway,
Is the most important. Other imports for themanufactIlre of porcelain
include amen amounts of gold for ornamentation, natural sponge for
smoothing the surface of porcelain, paper for transfer prints and paint
brush bristles. In addition', certain oxides for the manufacture of
abrasives and asbestos must be imported and have been very difficult to
obtain. The main difficulty in the industry is caused by. the lack
of trained personnel. The majority of workers before World War II
were Germane. Very few Czechs are expert in the production of ceramics,
Only at the Deana plant for the production of laboratory porcelain
is there a ceramics engineer, Ing. !Cumin, and he is at present in
the military oervice. Most of the plant equipment is old and worn and
production tools, which are produced at Rroznatin (050/00) and biby,
are inaufficient to the needs of the industry. The quality of pro-
duction has, therefore, become very inferior since the war.
Commont: this plant to JO 0,111t,
dawn %lien the teeny plant goes into full prouuetione
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