INSULATING MATERIALS FACTORY NO. 3

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014400310001-1
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORFIATION
INFORMATION REPORT. REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
25X1 SUBJECT Insulating Materials-Factory No.
DATE DISTR. 20 October 1952
NO.,4F PAGES 2
NO., OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
25X1
IS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENS
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18,SECTIONS 193
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT OVA . NUNAUTHORIDE6 PERSON IS
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co ,. or construction purposes, and for various technical in-.
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THIS IS` U~NEVALUATEb INFORMATION
The Insulating Materials Factory No. 3 (Isolatii No. 3), located-at
44Y Calea.Barbu.Vacarescu9 Bucharest., - is' directed by. the Insulating
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Insulators, are, also. made to measure for. parts of railroad engines
and steam boilers.
netting lined with glass,-wool,. fastened down with wire (Matrat 1`
.. Insulators for railroad engines, and steam boilers made f Wire
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ne t glass wools
.., iur Walls ann pipes mane of corrugated cardboard and
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c. A material insulating against humidity, called bitumsuspenaion,
consisting of a mixture of bitumen and lime.
d. Cork insulators for cold storage installations (produced up to.
December 1951, when the manufacture of this'product was trane?
ferred to the Izolatorul Factory). 4: . .
Following is a list of materials received by the factory:
a, The Scaeni Factory near Ploesti and the Tarnaveni Factory'in
Transylvania supplied 140 tons of glass wool during 1951. Also
in 1951, they supplied about 50 tons of glass wool for.the construction.
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of the pipeline between Ploesti and Reni. The Isolatii No. 3
Factory makes insulators 5 meters long and 1.5 to 10 ems. thick,
which require 720 grs. of glass wool per square meter of 1 cm.
thickness.
b. About 18 tons of corrugated cardboard were supplied in 1951 by
the Busteni Factory, the former Schiel works, the only factory of
this kind in Rumania. One square meter of this cardboard weighs
330 grs.
C. About 12,000 square meters of wire netting were supplied in 1951,
by the Metaloductil Factory at Stalin and Technometal at Timisoara;
The mesh spaces measure 16 square mm. and the wire has a diameter
of 0.5 to 0.6 mm.
d. Wire with a diameter of 0.3 to Ooh mm. was received from Ferometal.
One square meter of insulator required 0.040 kgs, of wire.
e. About 35 tons of granulated cork were received from Spain via
Hungary in 1950,
f. About 40 tons of bitumen were obtained from Sovrompetrol.
g. About seven tons of lime were received by the factory during 1950.
4. Because of the shortage of raw materials only 65 percent of the plan
was carried out in spite of an increase of 25 percent in capacity.
Officially, however, it was announced that 103 percent of the plan was
fulfilled.
5. Marketing is done according to the following percentages:
a. Cardboard and glass wool insulators: about 30 percent of the
total yearly production is sent to Casa Scanteii. About 30 per-
cent goes to Sovromconstructia. About 40 percent is sent to other
.enterprises, including 5 percent to Popov, the new Bucharest radio
station.
b. Wire-netting insulators: about 70 percent is sent to the rail-
roads for engines, and the remaining 30 percent is sent to the
Resita, Vulcan, Malaxa (new name not specified), 1 Mai (Ploesti),
and Progresul Works (Braila) for the production of steam boilers
later sent to the USSR. The production of these insulators is to
be doubled in 1952.
c. Bitumsuspension insulators: about 70 percent of the total output is
destined for the construction of the Casa Scanteii Building.
The remaining 30 percent is for buildings still under construction,
which are the Industria Textila at Botosani, the cement factory at
Medgidia, and the building of the Cominform at Snagov, as well as
various other buildings in the vicinity.
d. Cork insulators: the whole output is sent to cold storage in-
'stallations at Constanta, Burdujeni, and Salonta, and to the Obor
cold storage installation in Bucharest.
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