IRON AND STEEL PLANT IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE

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IION AATD STE L PLANTS IN EAST CENTRAL- EUROPE ,
January 1957
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ALBANIAN steel plant under construction
at Mamaliaj, about 60 miles 9 of Vlor8 /Valona/,South-Ssstern Albania;
referred to as a 'metallurgical combinat', situated on a brown coal mine, and
to be connected with Vlorg by a railroad about to be constructed;
expected to produce 5,000 tons steel, described as high-grade, in 1955 /Wirt-
schaft,1953,November 27/,presumably in an electric furnace# recent information
not available.
/LENIN/ DIMITROVO integrated plant under construction
at Tsrkva near Dimitrovo /former Pernik/, about 15 miles SW of Sofia, Western
Bulgaria;
an integrated plant under construction since 1952 near the largest Bulgarian
brown coal mine; originally supposed to produce in 1957 226,000 tons of pig
iron,250,000 tons of crude steel and 170,000 tons of rolled steel; pig iron
target subsequently halved,that for rolled steel increased to 150,000 tons;
construction of a coke battery with 100,000 tons annual capacity also envis-
aged; construction delayed because of non-delivery of equipment and various
shortages; all construction according to Soviet blueprints, Soviet equipment
installed;
composed 1955 of an ore beneficiating plant allegedly in operation in 1953,
three open hearth furnaces built in 1952-55, capacity of furnaces unknown,
an oxygen plant allegedly in operation in 1953, two rolling mills for bars
and-profile steel;
a blast furnace under construction, probable capacity 350 cubic meters, ex-
pected to be in operation in 1957; construction of further open hearth furn-
aces and rolling mills for flat products and wire envisaged or started;
1953 capacity of steelworks described as 50,000 tons, that of rolling mills
at 40,000 tons; 1955 estimated output substantially larger, 1956 target for
rolling goods estimated at 75-80,000 tons; sales of round and concrete steel
diameter up till 70 mm, of profile steel ahd small rails advertized in 1956.
LSTALIN/DIMITRDVOmetal and mac hingry plant.
at Dimitrovo,ibidem;
has a low shaft electric furnace for iron smelting, put into operation in 1953;
also a steel foundry; ferroalloys made.
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Antonin Kriz, editor, _The_",l_ron and Stee3,_ In-try in Czechoslovakia,
Prague, Association of Czechoslovak &iginners, 1930.
Georg Behaghel, ISp_hl e and Risen in der" Tschecho- lQw ei, Breslau,
0st-Europe Institut,1939?
No descriptive data published since 1938, all precise information
about existing plants and their facilities withgold since 1948. All estimates
of capacity and actual output of single plants of necessity very rough and sus-
ceptible of considerable margin of error.
BIIA C!KBV steel and rolling plant
a"t Hradek near Rokycany, 14 miles it of Plzen, Western Bohemia;
an old plant bought 1919 by Skoda Works Co, composed of two open hearth furnaces
at 30 tons,large section and small rolling mills, special high grade steel and
steel alloys; steel production discontinued during depression; 1929 output
47,000 tons of rolled products;
after World War II part of the United Steel Works /Kladno/ national enterprise;
steel furnaces reactivated, a new wire drawing plant added; 1953 described as
producing strip,plates and spring steel;
capacity described as of 230,000 tons of steel per year.
BOHUMIN steel and rolling plants
at Bohinin /P.Bogumin,G.Oderberg/,on the Upper Oder river N of Oetrava,in former
Duchy of Teschen; 1938-39 belonging to Poland;
seat of two plants merged in 1948 in the state corporation Bohumin_L.Kiment/
Iron Works:
1. former Hahn Tube Plant, originally a small integrated plant; iron
production discontinued during depression; composed in 1938 of open hearth furn-
aces, universal and sheet rolling mills, tube rolling, iron foundry,own power
plant; 1937 steelmaking capacity 150,000 tons, actual output 44,000 tons;
composed of 4 open hearth furnaces f1952/, also electric furnaces;
a new tube rolling mill installed after 1948; special steels supplied to Russia;
2. a wire and nail plant,1923 bought by Trinec Works,, 1937 output
62,000 tons wire; 1948 a screw factory added, 1950 a new wire drawing sill; out-
put described as twice that of prewar;
estimated steel output about 75,000 tons, rolled goods output not available.
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BRNO metallurgical center
at Brno,capital of Moravia;
seat of several large metal-processing and engineering plants,some of which
produce and/or roll their own metal:
/G0TPWAI.D1_ FIRST BRNO , AND KRALOVOPOLS MACHIN tY plant, f .1872, in the interwar
period known as ZBRC?JOVKA /Armament/ plant,greatly enlarged 1919-38, controlled
jointly by the state and the Skoda Co; a;&tr World War II merged with the machin-
ery and rolling plant at Brno-Kralovopole; makes plant equipment, automobiles
and armaments; large plant with 14 affiliated enterprises in Moravia and Slov-
akia, 1953 - 10,000 employed; has electric furnaces, a rolling mill, and a large
iron foundry;
,~SMFRAIf UNITED iGIIftING&FOUNDRIES __plant,large iron and steel foundries,
in the interwar period had three small open hearth furnaces, 1953- 6,000 em-
ployed;
capacities and output not available.
CHOMUTOV metallurgical center
at Chomutov /G.Komotau/, about 30 miles SW of Usti., North-Western Bohemia;
seat of two metallurgical plants:
/FU I ...spec a. stee~s._plant, former Petzold & Co, originally a small integrated
plant, iron production discontinued, a steel mill built in 1916 by Poldi Co at
Kladno; cold rolling,high-grade strip,anti-corrosion steels,transformer sheets
and other special steels; greatly expanded by the Germans during World War II;
now part of the United Steel Works state corporation at Kladno;
/KLIMSNT/,tube roiing_plant,f.1890 by Mannesmann Tube Co at Dilsseldorf, welded
and seamless tubes of all sizes,working mainly for export; much equipment dis-
mantled in 1945 by the Russians and resold to Switzerland; subsequently rebuilt,
the main plant of the state tube rolling concenr with seat at Chomutov; three
divisions in 1952, 4,000 employed; large tubes 7 to 12 meters long, diafeter
100 to 400 mm.
MY TAT metallurgical center
at Frvstat /P.Frysztat/,about 15 miles M of Ostrava, in Czech Silesia; 1938-39
belonging to Poland;
seat of several small metal plants,among them former Jaekel Iron Works,f.1927,
1928 output about 10,000 tons of seamless tubes of small diameter,also axles
and quality steels; dependence of Vitkovice forks;
also a screw and rivet factory,former Blumental,new screw division added in
1952, and a small steel plant,bought by Vitkovice Co, equipment transferred to
Vitkovice and steel output discontinued.
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V /KONEV/ KLADNO integrated plant
at Kladno, 25 miles WNW of Prague, Central Bohemia;
f.1852 on local iron ore, owned by Prague Iron and Steel Co, controlled by
Austrian, after 1919 by Czech banks; after 1945 merged with Poldi Steel Works
at Kladno; interwar operated conjointly with sister plant at Kraluv Dvur, see
below;
composed 1937 of 4 blast furnaces for Bessemer pig iron, capacity from 200 to
35D tons each, output above 3400,000 tons; mixer of 450 tons capacity; 5 basic
Bessemer converters at 15 tons and 8 open hearth furnaces at 30 tons each;
rolling plant including a 1100 mm cogging mill, a reversible 750 mm mill and
8 other rolling mills /universal train, 3 bar rolling mills,wire rolling/ with
14 stands; square and round bars, street car rails,girders, Thomas slag mill;
very efficient plant, 1929 output 421,000 tons of pig iron /together with
Kraluv Dvur/,433,000 tons of steel and 424,000 tons of rolling goods /also
together with Kraluv Dvur/; also electric steel furnaces,alloy and high speed
steels,sheets and tinplate,wire,screws;
intact in 1945, largely extended during World War II, increased steel prod'
uction; large investments and complete modernization after 1948; four blast
furnaces dismantled at Kladno and Kraluv Dvur and replaced by three new ones,
apparently of the same capacity /deposition by Frejka at SlanskyI s trial,
1952, replacement regarded as criminal act/ in 1950 and 1951; new steel furn-
aces and rolling mill added under Five Year Plan 1949-1953; 1953 output claimed
to be twice that of prewar; no data for the postwar period;
estimated ironmaking capacity 660,000 tons, output above 600,000 tons; estim-
ated steel output above 600,000 tons.
KRALW DVUR integrated plant
at Kraluv Dvur near Beroun,about 2D miles SW of Prague, Central Bohemia;
a very old iron and steel plant, for ownership see Kladno plant, since 1948
an autonomous state corporation;
steel production discontinued in 1922; composed of 3 blast furnaces with capacity
of about 2)0,000 tons per year, working intermittently when demand was high and
supplying iron for Kladno steel plant; production discontinued in 1932;an up-to-
date sheet rolling mill, 4 trains with 4 housings each,cold rolling mill for
automobile bodies, large iron foundry with 25,000 tons capacity,cast piping up
to 1200 mm diameter; a cement plant attached;
an ore beneficiating plant built during World War II; iron and steel production
resumed, for modernization see Kladno; plant enlarged after war, some of new
divisions regarded as key investments /Cerny,Hutnicke.Listy,1954,No 1/; erection
of agglomerating plant delayed; plant probably to be extended under the second
Five-Year Plan because of planned large extension of extraction of Bohemian
iron ore;
present capacity and output of metal not available.
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V J(DTTWALD/ KUNCICE integrated plant under extensigfl
between Kuncice and Vratimov on the eastern bank of the Ostravice river, a few
miles S of Ostrava immediately S of the Vitkovice Works;
prpjeCt of plant conceived by Germanny during World War II and known as Sidbau;
plant also known as Big Ostrava or Nova Hut' plant, also Donbass plant;
the largest metallurgical project of first and second Five-Year Plans, or&ginally
expected to be terminated by 1958; original targets 1,000,000 tons of pig iron
per year,1,500,000 tons of crude steel and over 1,000,000 tons of rolled products
and castings; construction delayed because of shortage of skilled workers and
delays in supply of equipment; cost of plant, originally fixed at 300 million
dollars, equipment supplied by Skoda Works,First Brno Sngineering Works,ingineer-
ing Works at Gottwaldov /Zlin/ and other plants, some equipment also supplied
by the Soviet Union;
first stage of construction terminated by 1954; plant composed in 1956 of two
coke batteries with 1441( ov~s and facilities for further chemical processing,
an ore agglomerating plant,) two blast furnaces at 1000 tons daily capacity,at
/least four open hearth furnaces of 2X0 tons, a special steel plant, a blooming
mill, a very large forge, a 12,000 tons press; hot metal practice used through-
out the whole metallurgical cycle; construction of a continuous wide strip rol-
ling mill delayed in 1954;
further extension of plant capacity by 1960 to include two blast furnaces of
1000 tons daily capacity or larger, steelmaking facilities of at least 500,000
tons per year, several rolldng mills of large capacity, and the beginning of
a continuous sheet rolling mill and cold rolled strip mill; extension similar
to that of Nowa Huta plant in Poland ,of somewhat lesser capacity;
pig iron output in 1952 estimated at 450,000 tons, in 1955 at about 730,000 tons,
steel output in 1953 about 850,000, tons, data for 1955 unavailable.
/STALINGRAD/ LISI9)VEC rolling p ant
at Liskovee, N suburb of Mistek, in North-.astern Moravia;
1.1833 by the Habsburg family, known as Karlshiltte,later on Karlova Hut', interwar
owned by Austrian, subsequently Czechoslovak Mining A Smelting Co,controlled by
French Union Kuropeenne et Financie`re, during World War II operated by Hermann
Goering Works;
plant processing steel from Trinec Works, largely extended in 1927-32, prewar cap-
acity 160,000 tons of sheets and plates,especially for automobile industry,also
bridges;
after World War II renamed Stalingbad Worka, a cold rolling mill added in 1947,
a strip mill ordered in the United States,delivery stopped in 1949; alternative
equipment supplied by Czech and Soviet plant,electric equipment from Switzerland;
consists of three very large sheet and plate rolling mills;
estimated rolling capacity about 300,000 tons per year.
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/STALIN/ MARTIN plant
at Martin, former Turciansky Sv.Martin, SE of Zilina, Central Slovakia;
prior to 1938, a tube rolling plant of the Mannesmann Tube Works at Dusseldorf;
after 1945, engineering plant of the CKD /C eskomoravska-Kolben-Danek/ state
concern, boilers,Diesel engines,tanks,large iron foundry,3,000 employed in 1952;
tube division assumed],y in operation.
MAY FIRST M)S T steel plant
at Most /G.BrOx/, about 2) miles SW of Usti, North-Western Bohemia;
a small steel and rolling plant owned by Stahlindustrie Co, prior to World War
II, bars, wire drawing, malleable and cast iron for electrical industry;
highly modernized and enlarged during the war, consists of two open hearth
furnaces,electric furnaces and rolling mills, praised for high technical
efficiency; dependence of United Steel Works at Kiadno; capacity and output
not available.
M)RAVIAN IRON WORKS OIDM)UC
at Olomouc-Repcin, Moravia;
former property of Moravian Steel & Iron Industry Co, now an autonomous state
concern, has several dependencies in Moravia;
prior to World War II including several open hearth furnaces,electric furnaces
and rolling mills, also wire drawing and foundries;
extended after 1945, capacity of iron foundry 15.000 tons, of steel foundry
3,000 tons; other data not available.
/SVffi3MA/ PODBRE3DVA steel and rolling plant
at Podbrezova /H.Zolyombrezo/ on the Hron river, about 30 miles S of Banski
Bystrica, Central Slovakia;
originally an integrated plant owned by Hungarian state, later by Czechoslovak
state, 1938 operated by the state conjointly with First Brno Co, 1939-44 by
the Slovak state conjointly with Hermann Goering Works, since 1948 the main
plant of Sverma Middle Slovak Iron Works state concern;
processing iron from the nearby Tisovec works, composed prior to 1938 of a
steel plant, a foundry, structural steel rolling,sheets,boiler plates and a
tube plant; also a refractory material plant;
modernized after 1945, a blast furnace ordered in Austria but not delivered,
composed of 6 open hearth furnaces at 25 tons and one at ]A tons, a new bloom-
ing mill added, sheets,plates and tubes; estimated steelmaking capacity about
150,000 tons;
described as being enlarged in 1952; no data about output available.
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POLDI special steel and rolling plant
at Kladno-Ujezd, 15 miles W of Prague,Central Bohemia;
f.1889 as crucible steel and rolling plant,1910 first rustproof steel in the
V world made on commecrial scale,greatly expanded during World War I,interwar
known as Poldina Hut, working mainly for export, also to the United States,
interwar ownership controlled by /German/ Becher-RSchling holding concern and
Zivnostenska Hanka, during World War II by Dresdner Bank;
plant of world renown again greatly expaned during World War II, electric steel
plant No 2 added, supplied armor plate and guns; end 1944, 10,000 employed in
comparison with 4,000 in 1937; market value of the plant described as 73 million
dollars; merged after 1945 with the plants of the Prague Iron & Steel Co at
Kladno and elsewhere into the United Steel Works state concern,processing
pig iron from the Kladno plant; one of key Czech export plants, subordinated
to Czechoslovak Ministry of Defense;
composed in 1938 of a steel plant with several electric furnaces and four rol-
ling mills making bars,billets,strip,sheets and wire; also large foundries and
spring factory; wartime-built steel plant No 2 has 7 electric steel furnaces;
plant again expanded under Five-Year Plan 1949-53,makes special and alloyed
steel of many kinds, plates for ships,submarines and armor, construction steel,
tubes for gas pipes in the Soviet Union in rolling plant No 3, automobile,
tractor and aircraft parts,also carbide and electrodes, capacity of steel
foundry 12,000 tons, of iron foundry 8,000 tons; 25,000 employed in 1953,
probably together with the other Kladno plant;
output of steel and rolled goods not available; steelmaker; capacity together
with the Kladno steel plant nearby described as 800,000 tons per year.
PRAGUE metal plants
at Prague and vicinity;
the seat of a number of large and medium engineering, machinery, electrical mech-
inery,automobile,aircraft and armament plants, some of which may be engaged in
producing steel and rolling it, among them
STALINGRAD electrical equipment plant at Praha-Vysocany,the main plant of the
CKD /C eskomoravska-Kolben-Danek/ state concern, electric steel furnaces and
small rolling mills for own requirements, had prior to 1938 three acid open
hearth furnaces, a forge and a press; 1938 steel foundry capacity 4,000 tons,
1953 capacity 2D,000 tons, iron foundry capacity in 1953 30,000 tons; turbines
and bridges.
ROTAVA-N&JDEK steel and rolling plants
at Rotava /G.Rothau/ and Nejdek,also spelled Nydek /G.Neudek/, & of As,NW of
Karlovy Vary /Karlsbad/ in Northern Bohemia;
old plants, steel production discontinued in the interwar period, rolling mills
at Rotava, plate rolling at Nejdek;
after World War II,rolling mills subordinated to Stalingrad sheet rolling plant
at Liskovec the equipment of which they supplied in part; there is electric
steel output; no recent data available, and some divisions may no longer be
active.
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LENIN/ SEDDA works, steel and rolling divisions
at Plzen /G.Pilsen/, Western Bohemia;
the largest engineering,machinery and armament group of plants in East Central
Europe; f.by flail Skoda in 1859,incorporated in 1899; greatly expanded as arm-
ament plant during World War I; 1919,majority of shares acquired from Vienna
banks by Schneider-C reusob armament concern, controlled by Union Europeenne et
Financiere in Paris; 1924-30 built up into a huge vertical and horizontal con-
cern by absorption of a number of mining,engineering and machinery firms in
Czechoslovakia and abroad, expansion helped by loans from British loans; 1930,
25,600 workers employed at the main plant alone;
steel division at Plzen f.1865, consisted 1929 of 6 open hearth basic furnaces
with joint capacity of 155 tons, commercial steel made from pig iron supplied
by Trinec works or imported; 3 acid Siemens Martin furnaces of joint capacity
of 105 tons,using low phosphorous Swedish and British ibon, and 3 electric
are H6roult furnaces of joint capacity of 22 tons for alloyed steels; rolling
mills for sections and bars; a steel foundry with 9 furnaces,and a very large
forge; 1929 output 77,000 tons basic ingots,19,000 acid ingots,2,600 tons
electric steel, 16,000 tons clean castings; new facilities added after 193o;
after Munich agreement in 1938,E ench-owned shares bought by the state; 1939,
main plant and its ramifications included into Hermann Goering concern; very
great investments made during World War II; 1944-45 plant repeatedly bombed
by Allied aircraft and partly destroyed; damage estimated at 160 million dol-
lars /fhe main and auxiliary plants/; occupied by American arniy,April,1945;
after 1945, plant systematically rebuilt and extended,renamed Lenin Works,
not subordinated to any industrial ministry, altogether 42 plants affiliated
to Lenin Works state concern; heavy industrial equipment and armaments sup-
plied to Soviet Union and other countries of Soviet bloc; 40,000 employed
in 1953 at the main plant at Plzen;
4 new open hearth furnaces added to the steel plant by 1953, also a 12,000
tons press, capacity of steel foundry 30,000 tons peryear,of iron foundry
and forge 40,000 tons; other data not available;
annual capacity of steel plant estimated at 250,000 tons,plus forgings and
castings.
SVINOV tube rolling plant
at Svinov /G.Sch8nbrunn/, W suburb of Ostrava, on the Opava biver at its con-
fluence with the Oder river, North-4Eastern Moravia;
a tube rolling plant, main Czech works of the Mannesmann Tube Works, DAaseldorf;
welded and seamless tubes of all sizes; plant extended after World War II,
dependence of Vitkovice Works;
capacity and output data not available.
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/SVERMA/ TISOVS iron works
at Tisovec, ca 40 miles NFE of Zvolen, Central Slovakia;
an old plant originally owned by Hungarian state, interwar and postwar history
identical with that of Podbrezova plant;
modernized after 1919, a deficitary works closed in 1932 and reopened in 1937;
output about 40,000 tons per year; a new blast furnace blown in 1943, its pig
iron processed at the Podbrezova steel plant;
modernized and enlarged again after 1945, a blast furnace described as No 6
added in 1953, four obsolete furnaces presumably dismantled; present capacity
and output notavailable.
/NDIATOV/ TRINE integrated plant
at Trinec /P.Trzvniec/,on the Olse /P.Olza/ river, about 2A miles SE of Ostrava,
in former Teschen Silesia;
f.1770,originally owned by the Habsburg family,1906 bought by Austrian Mining &
Smelting Works Co at Vienna; Nov.1918-Jan.1919 hold by the Poles, nearly one
half of the shares taken over by Schneider-Creusot bench armament concern,see
Skoda Works; the rest of the shares controlled by Zivnostenska Banka in Prague;
October 1938,taken over by the Poles and operated under Polish management; 1939
seized by the Germans and run until 1945 by Hermann Goering Works; since 1945,
principal plant of Molotov Iron Works state enterprise;
completely modernized and greatly extended in the interwar period, became the
second largest metallurgical plant in East Central Europe /after Vitkovice/;
a completely integrated enterprise comprising iron,steel and rolling works with
own coal and iron ore mines,coke plants,power plant and other facilities,as
well as auxiliary works in Czechoslovakia and Poland; in constant growth since
the beginning of century and highly profitable; entitled to 25 per cent of ex-
port of Czechoslovak steel cartel; net profit in 1929, over 1,800,000 dollars;
composed in 1929 of one coke plant at the works and two in the vicinity, 4
blast furnaces of 300 cubic meters and more, one of them of 650 tons daily
capacity; steel plant No 1 with 6 tpen hearth furnaces at 35 tons and a tilting
furnace of 75 tons, as well as a mixer of 300 tons, steel plant No 2 composed
of 7 open hearth furnaces,joint capacity 189 tons per heat; a blooming mill
put into operation in 1906 as the first electrically operated blooming mill in
the world, a number of rolling mills for sheets,billets,rails and railrodd
equipment, structural steel, and merchant iron, a Morgan continuous mill for
wire with 8 stands, and another Morgan continuous
mill for billets and blooms, installed 1928,capacity 1000 tons per shift; a
refractory material plant, also iron and steel foundries;
output in 1929: 475,000 tons pig iron, 506,000 tons crude steel,424,000 tons
rolled steel, 138,000 tons finished products; steel plant extended after 1929,
1937 output 485,000 tons pig iron,577,000 tons crude steel,477,000 tons of
rolled products; capacity of plant in 1938 described /Behaghel,p.171/ as having
reached 1500 tons of iron daily, 600 tons pf steel per heat, of wire mills daily
750 tons, total rolling capacity 2,000 tons daily; plant covering all requirements
of Czechoslovak railroads and exporting much railroad material; one blast furnace
closed but reopened by the Poles; capacity of coke plants extended during the
war to 1,260,000 tons,including 600,000 tons of the works' coke plant;
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/TRINE; continued/
plant again modernized and largely extended in 1948-53; coke battery No 6 built
in 1948,also a mixer for ores and an ore defreezing plant; blast furnace No 5
blown in 1948,cap9city not known,and No 6 in 1952,243 feet high, capacity 750
cubic meters,built by Skoda and Liskovec works,of Very high technical efficiency
/description in Hutnicke Listy,1952,No 4/; also a large turbo-blower; steel plant
No 3 under construction since 1951, at least three large open hearth furnaces
put into operation; a strip mill with three divisions ordered in the United Staes,
delivery stopped in 1950, replaced by equipment supplied in part by Russia{ and
Switzerland; plant described in 1953 as having i.ae an electric furnace,twe
blooming mills, large iron and steel foundries and large mechanical divisions;
early 1954,described as having 6 blast furnaces in operation and 17 open hearth
furnaces;
reconstruction of works in 1951-52 personally supervised by Malyshev,former
Soviet minister of ferrous metallurgy; at the Slansky trial,November 1952,
according to accused Frejka,great losses were suffered by Trinec works because
of a hasty reconstruction of the plant before 1952 and unwarranted demolition
of certain facilities; plant behind schedule in 1952, steel plant apparently
working well after introduction of Soviet technique;
late 1955,decision to built a new agglomeration plant of 600,000 tons capacity
scrapped; oil plant of same capacity will be modernized and enlarged instead;
blast No 6 to be modernized under Second Five-Year Plan 1956-60;
capacity of iron works in 1953-54 variously described at 2950 cubic meters and
1,200,000 tons per year, that of steel plants at 1,600,000 tons per year,of
steel foundry at 25,000 tons and of iron foundries at 47,500 tons;
estimated output in 1955 over 1,000,000 tons of pig iron and about 1,300,000
tons of steel; the largest output in last Central Europe.
/GO TTWALp/ VI TKQVIC E integta ted plant
at Vitkovice /G.Wittkowitz/, a S suburb of Ostrava,on the left bank of the
Ostravice river,North-Eastern Moravia;
f.1828 by the Habsburg family, taken over by Rothschild and Guttman /Vienna/
families,built up prior to World War I into the largest iron and steel works
in Austria-Hungary and East Central Europe; 1913 output 486,000 tons of pig
iron,302,000 tons of rolled products,21,600 tons of tubes,41,000 tons of iron
castings; all kind of stee l,engineering products,bridges,armor plate,cannon;
during World War I, new steelmaking and rolling facilities installed at the
cost of 12 million dollars;
in the interwar period, property of Vitkovice Mining & Smelting Co /Rothschild-
Guttman, 24 per cent of shares owned by London Rothschilds holding concern,the
Allied Insurance Co,which did most of the interwar financing of the plant/;
main works renovated,modernized and extended; a completely integrated concern
owning coal,iron ore and manganese mines in Czechoslovakia and abroad, a coke
plant and power station of Ostrava; plant of remarkable eff'iciency,capable of
competing in world market,and making much profit;
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composed 1929 of a coke plant at Ostrava of 4 batteries and 216 ovens, two iron
works, Karolina and Sofia works, 8 blast furnaces, 5 in operation, average daily
output of 4 of them 500-600 tons, special blast furnace for Spiegeleisen and
ferromanganese average output about 350 tons, two steel plants,obsolecent one
dating from prewar and plant No 2 composed of 2 fixed open hearth furnaces at
fO tons each and 6 tilting ones,including one at 110 tons and another at 150
tons,also electric furnaces; 17 rolling mills,including a blooming mill, a rail
mill, structural shape mills,various merchant mills,and a plate mill consisting
of armor plate mill, reversing duo for heavy plates,trio for light plates, and
trio and duo for sheets; a cold rolling mill transferred from Frystat plant;
a modern Mannesmann tube plant for seamless and welded tubes, annealing furnaces
for high quality sheets, very large steel and iron foundries,various auxiliary
divisions,several engineering and machinery works; refracory material plant
and power plant; description of plant in 1929 Kriz,pp.153 194;
ver,r high indices of output: maximum output of largest blast furnace 850 tons
daily, coke consumption 830 kg per one ton of pig iron, time per heat in fixed
furnaces about 6.5 hours, in tilting furnaces from 4,14 to 5.22 hours;
no new investments in facilities 1930-1938, 1937 output 717,000 tons of pig iron,
750,000 tons of steel, 524,000 tons of rolled products, 77,000 tons of tubes,
38,000 tons of iron castings, 90,000 tons of steel castings and forgings;
rolling capacity 720,000 tons, tube plant capacity up to 120,000 tons per year;
during World War II plant taken over by GIBET German holding concern; not dam-
aged during the war, plant taken over by the state and named Gottwald Works;
in 1949,an agreement signed with British share-owners, L 8 million compensation
to be paid within 10 years;
capacity of works much extended under the Two and Five Years Plans; two blast
furnaces added and two existing remodelled,some old ones apparently dismantled;
steel plants extended during the war, a new blooming nill added, cold rolling
mill extended, engineering shops extended and a new one added; plate rolling
plant reconstructed in 1953; steel plants described as including 4 Talbot furn-
aces at 250 tons capacity each, plant No 2 as consisting of 10 various furnaces;
prewar capacity of works attained again in 1947, and described as increased by
50 per cent by the end of 1952 when steelmaking capacity exceeded 1,009,000 tons;
early in 1952,daily steel production described as 2,200 tons,expected to reach
3,300 tons /Hutnicke Listvr,1952,No 4/; 1953 capacity described as 1,090,000 tons
of pig iron in 5 blasts furnaces /2 blast furnaces at Karolina works with 430,000
tons capacity; 16 rolling mills in 1953, a new tube rolling plant apparently
supplied from Eastern Germany with five automatic divisions; welded oil pipe
made for Russia, 8 to 12 meters long of 1.6 diameter, 40 mm thick; capacity of
steel foundry in 1953 described as 3 5.,000 tons, of iron foundry 50,000 tons per
year, a conservative estimate; plate of 3 to 20 cm made; no descriptive data
available after 1953;
works criticized for inefficient production, 1952 targets of production not
reached except for steel plant No 1; increasing percentage of rejects in 1949-
1953,total loss 220 million crowns; bad quality of steel; however, output of
heaviest engineering pieces and industrial equipaent,largely for Russia and
countries of Soviet orbit described as steadily increasins; among largest
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projects realized, bridge on the Danube river at Giurgiu-Ruse and large coke
plant at Chorzow,Poland;
production data for 1955 not available; estimated output approaching 1,000,000
tons of pig iron and above 1,000,000 tons of crude steel; 35,000 employed.
ZDAR steel division
at Zdar,ca 45 miles NW of Brno, Moravia;
steel and engineering works of large size under construction since 1950,
allegedly to become a counterpart of Skoda Works in Moravia,also to have blast
furnaces; original plans probably much curtailed;
high-grade steel made since August 1951, also a foundry for high-grade steel
castings, capacity 20,000 tons; 1953 steelmaking capacity assumed to be
50,000 tons.
BOHUMIN, plate rolling mills capacity 300 tons daily, plate 2 cm thick.
KUNCIG E, to be terminated soon after New Year 1957, a foundry 'largest in
Central Europe', castings up to 250 tons, cost 87 million crowns;
forge described as largest in Europe.
POLDI, 400 types of steel allegedly produced.
PRAGUE S TALINGRAD, 3 high-frequency furnaces supplied from Belgium in 1952.
The above list of Czechoslovak primary iron and steel plants may be incomplete.
It is probable that steel is made in electric furnaces in several additional
plants,and that there are rolling mills in some other ones, all of a small size
and supplying metal for processing within the plant themselves. The list which
follows includes most of the enterprises where ferrous metal may be made or
rolled thou this can not be sufficiently proven.
/Dimitrov/ BLANSKD heavy engineering plant W of Brno, Moravia, an old rolling
plant of the CKD concern,iron foundry 40,000 tons capaci'y,electric steel.
Bukovansky rolling mill at C 5KE BUD$JOVICE, Southern Bohemia,dependency of
Trinec Works, wire rolling and screws.
/Voroshilov/ DUBNICA heavy artillery work, SW of ZiLina,Slovakia, a new plant,
dependency of Skoda Works,apparently included steel furnaces and rolling mills;
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Moravia, the extended steel and machinery division of former Bata plant,electric
furnaces.
NDPRTVNTCR Tatra automobile plant, SW of Ostrava, Moravia, a small rolling mill.
j,,ADA BOL$SLAV Skoda automobile works, NE of Prague,iron foundry with X7,000
tons capacity, a smelting furnace of 60 tons daily capacity blown in 19490
LIBCICE rolling plant S of Prague,dependency of Kladno Works,screws and rivets,
a bright drawn steel wire mill put into commission in 1948?
PRANJVCE special steel mill in ,stern Slovakia NW of Kosice,known as East Slovak
Machinery Plant,during World War II electric and crucible steel furneces,high
speed and special steels,construction steel and plates; now described as steel
foundry.
STARA HUT rolling plant SWS of Prague,bars and sheet billets for tinplate, closed
during depression,rolling plant in operation in 1948.
J,RN~3A.rolling plant NE of Bratislava,Slovakia,known as Coburg plant,during World
War II tinplate,wire,Mannesmann tubes, now known as KUVOSMALT /metal smelting/.
t3 TI NAD LABEHI rolling plant at Usti on the Elbe /G.Aussig/,Northern Bohemia,
assumedly now known as Northern Bohemian Equipment Plant at Sezimovo-Usti,
elctric steel,dependency of CKD concern.
V JKY OSEK plant E of Prague,interwar a small rolling mill,electric steel since
or after 1945*
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Die eisenschaffende Industrie in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone, Bundes-
ministerium fair gesamtdeutsche Fragen, Bonn, 3rd edition, June 1954;
Steel Developments in Eastern GermaX, British Iron and Steel Federation,
London, October 1954;
Die Eisen- and Stahlindustrie in der So w etzone., SBZ-Archiv,Keiln,
November 1954*
AURHAMMER rolling plant
at Aue, SW of Karl-Marx-Stadt /former Chemnitz/, Saxony;
former F.A.Lange Metal Works, composed of three duo mills for sheets and plates,
also a small tube plant; 1953 output 28,000 tons of flat products; planned
1955 output 35,000 tons, probably realized.
BAD SALZUNGFN rolling mill
at Bad Salzungen,Western Thuringia;
a small cold rolling mill, production data unavailable.
BRAND-ENBURG steel and rolling mill
at Brandenburg,on the Havel river and Havel-Elbe canal, about 4o miles WSW of
Berlin,province Brandenburg;
in the interwar period the largest steel and rolling plant in the present Soviet
zone,favorably situated on waterways and near Berlin and Magdeburg metal-proces-
sing centers, owned by Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke Co /controlled by F.Flick hold-
ing concern at Dilsseldorf/; 1943 output 590,000 tons of crude steel,large rol-
ling mills, large output of armor plate;
plant completely dismantled in 1945-46 by the Russians,equipment shipped to
Russia,most buildings destroyed; rebuilding began early in 1950, original plan
to build 12 open hearth furnaces and a corresporidigly large rolling plant; con-
struction hasty and defectuous, January 1951 some open hearth furnaces collapsed,
had to be rebuilt by Russian engineers; July l 53,further extension of steel
plant 'temporarily stopped' and resumed in part only in 1956;
composed in 1955 of 10 Maerz open hearth furnaces at 145 tons, useful surface
of each furnace described as 45 square meters, charge described early in 1956
as 60 tons /Ulbricht's speech,March 24,1956/,crude steel supplied to six tol-
ling plants in Eastern Germarrr; 85o blooming mill, built by Wildau works,put
into operation in October 1953, also a wire mill supplied by Skoda gorks;
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construction of planned 1100 reversible blooming mill, a continuous plate mill
and other rolling facilities delayed or abandoned in the fall of 1953; however,
the plant is supposed to be extended under Second Five-year Plan 1956-60
/Wirtschaft,1955,No 40/; steel plant No 2 at nearby Hiickingen consisting of
Maerz 150 tons open hearth furnaces is envisaged, including furnace No 11
under construction,fully basic, 'first in Eastern Germany' /Wirtschaft 1955,
No 51/; outside gas will be used in addition to own generators,an oxygen plant
will be built supplying 1000 cubic meters per furnace and hour,98 per cent pure;
a 25 per cent increase of production anticipated from use of oxygen; plans to
extend the rolling plant again shelved in summer 1956; about 2,000 employed;
actual output of steel 562,000 tons in 1953, planned for 1955 - 760,000 tons,
actual in 1955 described as one-third of Eastern Germany's total /ibidem/,i.e.
about 830,000 tons if all kinds of steel and castings were meant,much less if
only Martin steel was meant; probable output in 1955 above 700,000 tons; rol-
ling output 44,000 tons in 1953, planned 230,000 for 1955, not fully realized.
BURG rolling plant
at Burg, NW of Xagdeburg,Saxony-Anhalt;
an interwar rolling plant owned by Trierer Walzwerke AG /controlled by Flick
concern/;
completely dismantled in 1945, equipment shipped to Russia; two mills returned
by the Russians in 1948 and reinstalled in 1951; composed of a sheet mill and
a cold reduction mill; makes dynamo sheets of 0.5-1 nun and transformer sheets
of 0.35 and 0.5 ngn, also ordinary steel sheets of 1 to 3 mm and chrome-nickel
sheets; large percentage of rejects; medium plate mill planned for 1954, not
realized;
output in 1953 - 32,000 tons of sheets, planned for 1955 - 35,000 tons,probably
implemented.
CALBE WEST iron works
at Calbe,on the Saale river, halfway between Magdeburg and Halle; Saxony-Anhalt;
a new plant favorably situated near iron ore and limestone deposits regarded
as one of the key constructions of Five-Year Plan 1951-55, processing poor acid
iron ores of 17 to 23 Fe content, otherwise unworkable,fine Harz ores and pyrites
waste; and metallurgical coke made at the Rakosi Lauchhammer plant out of
lignite; the latter plant able to cover Calbe's requirements only since 1956
when its output exceeded 500,000 tons;
originally planned to consist of 20 low shaft furnaces,on],y 10 were built by
1953; further extension,-of plant stopped in 1953, no such plans are known for
1956-60; daily output per furnace variously described as 65-70 tons, 80-100
tons and 80-90 tons; 2.05 tons of Lauchhammer coke used per one ton of pig
iron; some furnaces being reconstructed in 1956, anticipated output being raised
by 35-40,000 tons of iron;
after many setbacks and technical difficulties the plant developed larger capac-
ities than originally anticipated; quality of Lauchhammer coke much improved
and plant described as very successful;
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actual production of foundry pig iron 134,000 tons in 1953,planned for 1955
22D,000 tons; actual output in 1955 substantially higher, estimated figure
265,000 tons.
DOHLEId spec 1 steel and rolling plant
at Ddhlen-F eital, outer SW suburb of Dresden,Saxony;
f.1863, a medium-size steel and rolling plant of the Sgchsische Gussstahlwerke
Co, controlled by Flick concern; 1943 output 203,000 tons of crude and electric
steel;
completely dismantled by the Russians in 1945,with equipment shipped away, and
rebuilt since 1949 on the ruins of old plant,originally planned to be developed
into a large plant, extension abandoned or slowed down in the fall of 1953;
composed 1955 of two open hearth furnaces at 10 tons, two electric steel furnaces
at ]0 tons and one at 3.5 tons; construction of 8 electric furances at 10 tons
and alternative plan of building two open hearth furnaces abandoned; a steel
foundry with one electric oven of 3.5 tons, possibly two with larger capacity;
description of steelmaking facilities uncertain; a 450 medium rolling mill
built by Skoda Works in 1955; other planned rolling mills not built; a forge
with 5 hammers;
1953 output of crude steel 72,000 tons, of electric steel ]02,000 tons; planned
output in 1955 - 85,000 tons of crude and 130,000 tons of electric steel; data
about actual output in 1955 not available.
FARADIT tube plant
at Karl-Marx-Stadt, Saxony /former Chemnitz/;
a small interwar tube and rolling plant, production data not available.
FINOW rollinp- plant
near Eberswalde
at Finow, NE of Berlin, Brandenburg;
owned interwar by Hoffmann & Metz Co; bar and strip mills; planned extension
delayed in 1953 and again in 1956;
1953 output 34,000 tons, planned in 1955 45,000 tons,reduced to 40,000 tons;
actual data for 1955 not known.
GlODITZ steel and rolling plant.
at Grdditz,Saxony;
f.1780, oldest plant of present Soviet zone, in the interwar period owned by
Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke Co /Flick concern/;
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plant dismantled in 1945,equipment shipped to Russia; rebuilt in 1949-54;
conflicting information about its facilities; composed of an open hearth shop
of 4 furnaces at 60 tons capacity /Steel Developments,p.12/ and a foundry with
two open hearth furnaces at 10 tons and two electric furnaces at 20 tons cap-
acity; this description not confirmed by German sources but fitting with the
steelworks output in 1953 and planned output in 1955; a blooming mill /Develop-
ments,not confirmed/,two rolling mills for railroad equipment /Bandagenwalzwerk/,
capacity 75,600 tons per year /Bonn Mitteiluxngen aus dem Institut ftir Raum-
forschung,1951,No 10/described as narrow strip mill /Developments/; also a forge
with 6,000 tons press,the largest in Eastern Germany;
output of crude steel 112,000 tons in 1953, planned for 1955 - 225,000 tons,
actual output not available; rolled goods output in 1953 - 62,000 tons, planned
for 1955 - 75,0W tons,probably attained.
/FLGRTN/ HIDINIGSDORF steel and rolling Plant
at Hennigsdorf, a NW outer suburb of Berlin,Brandenburg;
interwar steel and rolling plant controlled by Flick holding concern,Dtisseldorf;
built near brown coal mines to take advantage of Berlins metal scrap and to
supply rolled goods to Berlin's electrical industries; rolling plant and most
other facilties dismantled by the Russians and shipped away, subsequently some
equipment returned from Russia; rebuilt in 1947-53;
composed 1953 of a steel shop with 4 open hearth furnaces at 80 tons and a
steel foundry with two open hearth furnaces at 40 tons /one,Steel Developments/,
one electric furnace at 10 tons capacity and another at 18 tons capacity,
joint capacity 220,000 tons per year; a 750/650 blooming mill with 300,000 tons
capacity built in 1948 in Eastern Germany and regarded as defectuous, 0' four
light and medium section mills, 350 trio sheet] mill and a 280 rod mill, de-
tailed description in Eisenschaffende Industrie,pp.21-22; rolling plant proct
essing own and Brandenburg plant steel; large portion of profile steel used
for armament production; a metallurgic research institute attached to the
plant whose workers took a leading part in June 17,1953 rebellion;
planned another open hearth furnace in the steel shop and three electric 15
tons furnaces in the foundry,also extension of engineering shops; operation
of plant curtailed in October 1955 because of non-arrival of Polish coal;
1953 output of steel 198,000 tons,planned 250,000 tons in 1955,possibly at-
tained; 1953 output of rolled goods 188,000 tons, planned for 1955 - 200,000
tons.
HETPSTEDT rolling plant
at Hettstedt, NW of Halle,in the Harz Mts, Saxony-Anhalt;
a steel rolling division of the interwar copper and brass rolling plant Mansfeld;
plant taken over by the Russians and returned to Eastern German government on
January 1,1954; ferrous rolling introduced in 1947; composed of blooming mill,
working on ingots from Brandenburg, a plate mill for medium plates and a rod
mill;
actual output in 1953 t 173,000 tons,planned for 1955 - 190,000 tons.
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,NjEqlg~~ ER IRCH IL 9NBURG rolling mill at Ilsenburg SW of Magdeburg, in the Harz Mts, Saxony-Anhalt;
former Copper Works Ilsenburg, not dismantled in 1945, now only a plate and
sheet rolling plant, specia?i.ty ship and boiler plate, ingots and slabs from
Brandenburg plant; also 4 blooming mill /Developments/; praised for efficiency;
earmarked for further extension;
output in 1953 63,000 tons of flat products /more than planned/, expected in
1955 - 77,000 tons.
J J P I P S $R_rolling_plant
at Kirchm8ser near Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt;
interwar plant owned by German state railroads; two rolling mills shipped to
Russia and returned against full payment;
composed of a plate mill and light section mill, also a blooming mill /Devel-
opments/; slabs and ingots from Brandenburg plant; works mostly for armaments;
praised for efficient operation;
output in 1953 - 108,000 tons, planned for 1955 - 115,000 tons, assumedly
realized.
MAXIMILLIAN integrated plant
at Unterwellenborn, on the Saale river N of Saalfeld on the way to Gera,Thurt
ingia ;
f.1881, largely obsolescent in the interwar period, property of gisenhtittenwerk
M,aximillianht tte.Co, controlled by Flick holding concern and Dresdner Bank;
1944 capital 44 million marks; heavy guns and other armaments;
plant not dismantled in 1945 because of its obsolete egmipment, but was taken
over by the Russiand as a Soviet corporation and returned to the Eastern German
governraeht on January 1,1954; gun division shipped to Russia; plant modernized
and enlarged in 1947-52; working on Schmalkalded iron ore;
composed in 1955 of a sintering plant, Dwight-Lloyd type built by Gruson Magde-
burg in 1952; one blast furnace of 285 cubic meters,daily capacity 300 tons,
three at 360 cubic meters, 350 tons capacity, and a 40 ton low shaft furnace
apparently in operation; Thomas pig iron produced; four Bessemer converters
at 15 or 2D tons,apparently to be replaced by 25 tons ones; two electric fur-
naces at 2D or 25 tons; capacity of iron works 450,000 tons, of Bessemer shop
350,000 tons,of electric shop 60,000 tons; a 1000 tons mixer; a 1100 blooming
mill,annual capacity 240,000 tons, a 950 duo heavy section mill, a 700 trio
medium section mill and a trio plate mill, being the first part of the planned
wide strip mill; a forge and press shop of joint 18,000 tons capacity,modern-
ized in 1952;
regga~rded as 'mother plant of sttern German metallu gy' and having many skilled
workers, plant can nobe exten~ed because of lack o space;
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output in 1953: Thomas pig iron 382,000 tons, Thomas steel 282,000 tons,
electric steel 53,000 tons; planned for 1955: pig iron 42D,000 tons, steel
330,000 tons, electric steel 60,000 tons; all these figures reached or very
nearly so.
OLBERNHAU rolling plant
at Olbernhau, SE of Karl-Marx-Stadt /Chemnitz/, close to Czech frontier,Saxony;
a sheet mill, formerly F.A.Lange Metallwerke AG, three duo mills for fine sheets,
allegedly being extended;
output :6,000 tons in 1953, planned 30,000 tons in 1955.
RIE3A steel and rolling plant
at Riesa on the Elbe river, NW of Dresden,SaxorW;
f.1843, pre-1945 owned by Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke Co /Flick concern/, 1939
output 382,000 tons of crude steel,264,000 tons of rolled products,47,000 tons
of tubes,10,000 tons of containers,4,190 employed; 1943 output of steel 481,000
tons /together with the associated Grbditz plant nearby/;
plant dismantled in 1945,equiin'nt shipped to Russia, 95 per cent of capacity
and 60 per cent of buildings lost; plant carefully and competently rebuilt in
1947-52; first steel produced in 1948;
composed in 1955 of 6 open hearth furnaces at 200 tons capacity,fully mechanized;
steel foundry with an open hearth shop of one furnace at 40 tons and two at 60
tons /according to Developments, one at 25 tons and 6 at 60 tons/, one electric
steel furnace at 5 tons and another at 10 tons /according to Developments,two/;
according to Wirtschaft,1955,No 4o, composed of 9 open hearth furnaces,two
electric furnaces and a steel foundry; a rolling plant composed of a 800 rever-
sible blooming mill and another 650, a 500 trio medium section mill, a 360
light section mill, a 280 wire rod mill, a butt welded tube mill,tubes up to
38 mm diameter,supplied from Russia, and two seamless tube mills, tubes 52 to
140 mm diameter; also apparently a 360 sheet mill /may be identical with above
light section mill,/; armor plate up to 36 mm and profiles up to 300 mm;
no extension planned because of local topographic conditions; plant described
as efficient; a school of metallurgy attached to the plant,the only in Eastern
Germany; 8,120 employed in 1952,probably together with the Gr8ditz plant;
output of steel in 1953 - 358,000 tons,planned for 1955 - 380,000 tons; output
of rolled goods in 1953 - 252,000 tons, planned for 1955 - 280,000 tons,prob-
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STALIN iron works
at Stalinstadt,former Ftarstenberg-.Schliesssee,on the Oder river and Oder-Spree-
Berlin canal,across the river from Poland,about 20 miles S of Frankfurt on
the Oder,Brandenburg;
plant known as Eisenhilttenkombinat Stalin /SKS/, originally planned as the larg-
est Hastern German integrated plant with full cycle of production, similar to
Kuncice,Nowa Huta and Dunapentele projects, though with lesser production of
steel; supposed to work on Soviet iron ore and Polish coke; targets as fixed
in 1951: 500,000 tons of pig iron,550,000 tons of steel and 990,000 tons of
rolled products /including the capacity of blooming mill/; target for pig
iron raised in 1952 to 900,000 tons and later on to 1,200,000 tons after com-
plete termination of iron works sometime after 1955; steel target raised in
1952 to 600,000 tons ;
the erection of steel and rolling mills indefinitely postponed in the fall of
1953; no indication that any large facilities will be built in the course of
the Second Five-.Y ear Plan 1956
plant composed in 1955 of six blast furnaces at 600 cubic meters capacity
/Developments: three at 500 meters and three at 700 meters/,No 4 built with
help of Soviet engineers, Nos 5 and 6 fully automatic; No 1 defectuous,had
to be rebuilt; production behind schedule because of technical difficulties
and delays of supply of imported iron ore and coke; in 1955, 70 per cent of
coke supplied from Poland, 30 per cent from Western Germany; quality of Polish
coke described as bad,and that of Krivoi Rog ore as fines of 45 per cent Fe;
the sintering plant has five belts with 1000 tons capacity daily per belt;
1955, one ton of coke used for the output of one ton of pig iron /1953 indice
1,39 tons of coke/;
the capacity, of two blast furnaces supposed to be raised in 1957 from 600 to
700 cubic meters;
output of pig iron 658,000 tons in 1953, planned for 1955 - 1,200,000 tons;
actual output in 1955 in the vicinity of 1,000,000 tons; target for 1956
one ton iron per one cubic meter of capacity, i.e* about 1,250,000-1,300,000
tons /after extension of two blast furnaces/.
PI'S
THALE steel and rolling plant
at Thale,SW of Magdeburg,NW of Halle,in the Harz Mts,Saxorjy-Anhalt;
f.1872, in the interwar period owned by Otto Wolf concern in Cologne, the only
major plant in the Soviet zone not controlled by Flick concern; 1943 output
113,000 tons of crude steel;
not dismantled in 1945-6 because of its obsolete equipment, operated until
Januarv 1,1954 as a Soviet concern /SAG/,returned to Eastern German author-
ities; enlarged and modernized in 1949-50;
composed of three open hearth furnaces at 60 tons capacity and at least two
electric furnaces at 10 tons; a blooming mill, a plate mill,built in 1912,
annual capacity 120,000 tons, two sheet mills with seven trains,annual cap-
acity 78,000 tons, a cold reduction mill, iron foundry of 12,000 tons capacity,
steel foundry, stamping and enamel work;
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description of rolling mills and their output, Die eisenschaffende Industrie,
pp.23-4; no pland known for further extension of plant in 1956-60,which would
be difficult because of the location of existing facilities;
output of steel in 1953 172,000 tons /including 41,000 tons of electric steel/,
planned for 1955 - 190,000 tons /50,000 tons electric/; of rolled steel 156,000
tonsiin 1953, planned for 1955 - 220,000 tons; actual data for 1955 not avail-
able.
LIST OF PRINCIPAL STEEL FOUNDRIES AND SOME LE3:5ER PLANTS.
The list of Eastern German primary iron and steel plant presented above is not
complete. It includes only steel foundries attached to primary metallurgic
plants but not those existing at heavy engineering plants and independent steel
foundries. It should be borne in mind that a large proportion,possibly one
half of Eastern German steel castings /283,000 tons in 1953, 325,000 planned
for 1955/ was made in the latter foundries. The list which follows includes
most of such steel foundries,as well as a few plants which possessed or were
assumed to possess small rolling mills but were not usually included among
primary metallurgic plants.
BO=,former Krautheim steel and iron foundry at Karl-Marx-Stadt /former Chem-
nitz/, has electric steel cast g furnaces; 1951 capacity described as 12,000
tons; until 1954 a Soviet concern.
COPITZ steel foundry near Pirna,Saxony, two oil furnaces at 2 tons.
DRESDEN rod wire mill,planned output in 1955 - 5,000 tons.
FRANKLEB EN rolling plant near Merseburg,S of Halle,Saxony-Anhalt; until 1954
a Soviet concern.
1MiX;W BUR /_LALCHA*IER WEST heavy engineering plant at Lauchhamner N of
Dresden,Saxony, has electric furnaces,including one at 3.5 tons capacity,
ferroalloys plant.
LIPP TDORF, former EULA works, electric machinery plant,enlarged after 1945,
makes ferroalloys, esp.ferrosilicium.
LEIPZIG,,Saxony,seat of many heavy engineering plants, among which:
Leipzig_Iron and steel Wo1s,former Meier & Weichelt, has a large iron
and steel foundry with three open hearth furnaces of 8 to 10 tons cap-
acity and two electric furnaces of 8 and 10 tons;also malleable iron
division;
Electrical Steel Castin plant,former Jahn, Leipzig-West, has two el-
ectric arc furnaces at 5 tons,capacity about 6,000 tons per year;
high-alloyed steel castings.
MAGDEBURG and wicinity, Saxonv-Anhalt, is the largest heavy engineering and
heavy machinery center of Soviet zone and Soviet-controlled part of Europe;
among which:
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17h3,mann heavy machinery, plant-a' former Krupp-Gruson,1953 steel output
28,000 tons / astings/; 1945-54 Soviet corporation; has at least one
elctric steel furnace at 3 tons; planned output of steel foundry in
1955 25,000 tons, of forged and pressed pieces,35,000 tons;
/D mitroff heavy, machinery___plant,former_Otto _._Gruson, until 1954 a
Soviet corporation, planned output of steel foundry 19,000 tons in 1955;
/sari-Marx industrial,equimment plant,former Scaeffer_ & Budenberg,
special steels, planned output of steel foundry 15,000 tons in 1955?
O BSS PREEcable plant at East Berlin, has rod wire mills; planned output in 1955
28,000 tons, actual in 1953 - 23,000 tons.
ORANI3NBURG spring-making plant NW of Berlin,Brandenburg, fine steels;
RADEB~RG_.rolling plant NE of Dresden,Saxony, axles;
SI ITZ,.&.RAGBE steel plant, Saxony, former Kunsch & Co, has two or three
small open hearth furnaces in steel foundry;
WTTERZ JBE steel works near Zeitz,Saxony-Anhalt; two electrical furnaces at
2 tons;
/RAU/ WnILDAU heavy machinery plant at Wildau S of Berlin, Brandenburg, former
Schwarzkopff locomotive plant, dismantled in 1945 and rebuilt as the key plant
for heavy engineering under the first Five-Year Plan 1951-55, making a.o.
metallurgic equi*ment; has a great forge,planned output 30,000 tons in 1955;
also a rolling division.
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Industrie Compass 1943/4, Ungarn, Wien, 1943
Ministry of Economic Warfare, Hungary, Basic Handbook,part II,
London, May 1944
War Depaetment,Pamphlet No 31-135, Organization of the Iron and
Steel Industry in Enemy Europe,Washington,March 1945
Hungarian Bulletin,Budapest,various issues since 1947
Cordero, Iron and Steel Works of the World,London,1951
Teleki, Economic Geography of Hungary, MS, New York,1953
Most data quoted in the above sources are uncertain and contradictory or
obsolete. In the description which follows, the writer has benefited by the
advice of Dr.George Pill of New York City.
No BORSODNADASD steel and rolling plant
at Nadasd, ca 25 miles W of Miskolc, NE Hungary;
f.1881, owned until 1947 by the Rimamurany-Salgdtarjdn Smelting Co;
originally a tinplate rolling plant, 1928 output 30,000 tons, 1,Z)0 employed;
one electric furnace put into commission in 1951; according to Teleki, had
in 1947 one small blast furnace and 3 open-hearth furnaces; information not
confirmed by other sources.
No CSEPEL steel and rolling plant
at Csepel, an island on the Danube immediately S of Budapest;
former Manfred Weiss Steel and Machinery Works, large engineering and machinery
works which in time came to make its own steel; 1943,making crude and rustless
steel,bars,sheets,wire,seamless tubes,steel profiles, railroad material,hoops,
steel castings and screws, in addition to lorries,tractors,farming machinery,
guns,sheels and light tanks; steelmaking capacity in 1943 described at
150,000 tons;
tube plant expanded in 1947-49; 1947 composed of 3 open-hearth and 4 electric
furnaces, 1950 /Cordero/ steelmaking capacity 250,000 tons,also a blooming mill,
medium,light and tube rolling mills,wire drawing,foundries; one open-hearth
furnace and one electric furnace added in 1951, also a medium rolling mill and
heavy construction mill; a new steel plant under construction in 1953, a new
open-hearth in 1953 described as having 180 tons daily capacity,also a new
slabbing mill /Vneshnaya Torgovla,Moscow, 1953,No 2/;
estimated steelmaking capacity about 300,000 tons, 1955 output about 25),000 tons;
known as Rakosi plant 1948-1956; processes iron from Ozd; supplies steel to
Csepel engineering and armament plant,also shipyards; presumably damaged in
1956 revolution.
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DANUBE Iron Works, former STALIN, integrated plant under construction
at Dunapentele /1951-56 known as Sztalinvaros/, on the western bank of the
Danube , 40 miles S of Budapest;
key plant of Hungarian Five-Year Plan 195)-54, initially planned to be erected
at Moha'cs near v ugoslav frontier, construction transferred to Dunapentele in
195D; originally planned to consist of 4 blast furnaces with annual capacity of
1,000,000 tons of pig iron and a steel plant with capacity of 1,300,000 tons;
also a coke-chemical plant, vast rolling mills and a number of auxiliary plants;
expected to work on Komlo coking coal and Soviet iron ore;
construction delayed, only a small part of plan realized by the end of 1956;
composed then of one coke battery at 55 ovens,working on mixture of Komlo coal
/high percentage of ashes/ and imported coking coals; one blast furnace;d at
700 cubic meters capacity /highest daily output 814 tons/, three oil-heated
open-hearth furnaces at 125 tons capacity,at least one electric furnace, a
refractory brick plan*,an oxygen plant, one rolling mill' erected in 1952,
iron and steel foundries, construction and machinery workshops; equipment
largely supplied by the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia;
end 1955, construction began of a fully automatic cold and hot rolling plant;
ore preparation plant expected to be ready in 1956 and second blast furnace
in 1957; two more open-hearth furnaces also expected to be built under Second
Five Year Plan 1956-60; works expected then to produce a.o. 280,000 tons of
plates,also tinplate and galvanized sheets; all these plans doubtful after
1956 revolution,during which the plant suffered some damage;
estimated 1955 output 175,000 tons of pig iron and about 350,000 tons of crude
steel.
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No DIOSG(OR L&IN integrated plant
at Didsg$-or, W suburb of Miskolc, NN Hungary;
a 19th century plant founded by the Hungarian government, operated by MAVAG Co
/Royal Hungarian State Iron and Steel and Machinery Works,subsequently Vitez
Horthy Istvan Works/;
ordginally a steel and rolling plant, had one blast furnace blown in 1926 and
another one in 1935; output included Martin and electric steel,iron and steel
castings,boiler plate,sheets,rails,bars,sleepers,rivets,screws,axles,commercial
steel,wheels,bridges and girders,also locomotives,farming machinery,buses and
trucks; 1943 capacity 150,000 tons of pig iron and 250,000 tons of construction
and tool steels,railroad material, and a large range of engineering and machinery,
also guns,shells,light tanks; steel plant regarded as obsolete;
badly damaged during World War II,subsequently completely modernized and much
extended; 1947,composed of two blast furnaces, 7 open-hearth furnaces and four
electric furnaces, 7,100 employed /Teleki/; 1950, composed of two blast furnaces
of 150 cubic meters capacity each and one smaller one /?/, 8 open-hearth furn-
aces up to 80 tons capacity and 6 electric furnaces, medium,light,universal and
spring mills,forge and foundry; three new open-hearth furnaces,one described
as of 180 tons capacity,and one or possibly two electric furnaces added in 1951;
a blast furnace of '1O0 cubic meters capacity put into commission in June 1953
and a triple slabbing mill in November 1952 /Bulletin,No 129/;
expected after termination of extension to supply one million tons of steel and
a corresponding amount of other products /Bulletin,No 142/; extension stopped
in second half of 1953; plant assumedly damaged in 1956 revolution;
data about Didsgydr incomplete and misleading; plant assumedly suffering from
shortage of raw materials; pig iron output in 1955 estimated at 340,000 tons,
steel'output above 500,000 tons.
No CYOR plant
at (Sr, ca 80 miles NWW of Budapest, NW Hungary
owned until 1947 by Hungarian Waggon and Machinery works; railroad material and
bridges plant, 1943 also coaches and trucks;
since the war has also an electric steel furnace; a screw factory, coaches plant
extended, new press added in 1953; also makes machine tools; named after Pieck.
No OZD integrated plant
ca 30 miles NW of Miskolc,NK Hungary;
f.1881,owned until 1947 by Rtmamurany-Salgotarjdn Co; the oldest Hungarian plant;
1931 composed of 4 blast furnaces working on imported coke, 10 open.hearth furn-
aces with joint capacity of 360,000 tons, a duo and trio rolling mills,rolling
capacity 280,000 tons, 5,000 employed; 1943 ironmaking capacity 300,000 tons,
steelmaking capacity 400,000 tons, commercial steel,bars,rails,container and ship
plates, girders,bridges;
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investments made during Three-Year Plan 1947-49 and plant regarded as recon-
structed, capacity of ore preparator plant increased; described in 1950 as
composed of 4 blast furnaces, 8 open-hearth furnaces with capacity pf 42o,000
tons,one electric furnace, a blooming mill,heavy plate rolling mill,medium
for rails and sections,light for bars; apparently a new blast furnace added in
1951; 3 modern Open-hearth furnaces mentioned in 1952 /(Ferd/; 12 openthearth
furnaces apparently working in 1953;
1947 output 200,000 tons &ron and 275,000 tons steel; estimated 1955 production
300,000 tons pig iron and 420,000 tons steel; all data pertaining to the plant
uncertain.
PESTSZENTLORINC rolling plant
at PestszentlorincT a ST suburb of Budapest;
former Orenstein & Koppel rolling stock plant, has a new rolling mill since 1950.
SAL(lDTARJAN steel and rolling plant
at SalgotarjIn, ca 30 miles W of Miskolc, NE Hungary;
f.1881, owned until 1947 by limamurany-Salgotarjan Smelting Co;
1931, a steel plant, electric ovens,steel foundryy,making rivets,axles,drawn
wire, farimng tools; 1943, annual steel capacity 50,000 tons, pig iron supplied
by sister Ozd plant;
composed of 4 open-hearth furnaces, two electric furnaces /one added in 1951/;
also a cold rolling mill,wire drawing mill, forge,iron and steel foundries,
galvanizing plant;
1953 estimated output 50,000 tons steel; datum uncertain.
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Studies Center,1953.
Steel Developments .in,..Polanda British Iron and Steel Federation,
London, October 1953.
Prewar and postwar corporations reports, general press and tech-
nical publications.
ANDRZEJ rolling plant
at Zawadzkie, on Malopiana river, E of Opole, in Western Upper Silesia;
f.1834 as an iron puddling plant, discontinued after World War I, owned until
1945 by Vereinigte Oberschlesische Htittenwerke;
devastated in 1945 and rebuilt since, extended under the Six Year Plan 1950-
1955; composed of a large profile mill,a forge and a construction shop, spec-
ializes in railroad equipment, apparently also tanka parts; depends on the
special steels divsion of the ministry of metallurgy; capacity and output
not known.
BAILDON special steels and rolling plant
at Katowice in Eastern Upper Silesia;
(.1815 by John Baildon and known as Baildonhftte,assigned to Poland in 1921,
taken over by Pok6j state-controlled corporation; during World War II oper-
ated by Ballestrem holding co.;
enlarged in the intrewar period,composed in 1938 of two open-hearth furnaces at
25 tons each, i electric furnace at 15 tons, 2 at 10 tons and 1 at 2.5 tons,
I high frequency furnace at 2 tons, 1 at 1 ton,and 1 at 0.3 tons, 1 sheet rolling
mill and another at 4 stands, Q profile mills at 7 stands each,12 hammers,two
presses;
greatly damaged during World War II and subsequently rebuilt and enlarged, one
new electric arc furnace supplied from Eastern Germany in 1953, produces Martin
and elctric,also high-spedd steel, sheets,plates,bars,drawn wire; claimed to
have been entirely modernized by 1955 and often praised for its performance,
produces 'ten types of ferrous products', including forged rollers for cold rol-
ling mills and magnets of powdered metal; targets of Six-Year Plan realized
ahead of schedule;
estimated 1955 steel output about 100,000 tons of crude and electric steel;
six divisions to be extended under the Second Plan 1956-60 and output raised
by 6 to 12 per cant; depends on special steels divsion.
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BAhoRY special steel and rolling plant
at Hajduki Wielkie, S suburb of Chorzow in Eastern Upper Silesia;
f.1872 as Bismarckhtttte, assigned in 1921 to Poland, taken over by Pok6j state-
controlled corporation, during World War II part of Hermann Goering Works;
originally a fully integrated plant, iron smelting discontinued after World War
I. composed in 1938 of 3 open-hearth furnaces of joint 80 tons capacity,one
electric arc furnace at 10 tons and 3 at 5 tons capacity, heavy,medium and light
section mills,heavy and medium plate and sheet mill, six units Mannesmann tube
rolling hot welded tubes 400 nn by 30 mm, foundry and forge;
damaged and rebuilt after World War II, being enlarged since 1951, a new open-
hearth furnace built in 1951 and some others in 1953; not all of these in
operation in 1955; furnace No 2 fully automatic;
assumed steel producing capacity above 100,000 tons per year; plant operated
by special steels division; makes among other armor plate of 35 mu, rails,
pressed and forged parts; no plans known for the extension of plant in 1956-60.
BOBREK integrated plant
at Bobrek-Karb, an E suburb of Bytom /G.Beuthen/ in Western Upper Silesia;
f.1883 by Caro family and known as Julienhtttte, owned since 1926 by Vereinigte
Obeirschlesische Hutt enwerke, after 1939 by Gewerkschaft Castellenge-Abwehr
/Ballestrem holding concern/,since 1945 Polish state works;
plant repeatedly reorganized and modernizedbetween 1910 and 1945; the only iron
works left in the interwar period in German Silesia,working on Swedish and German
ore and own coke; pig iron output 292,000 tons in 1940 and 236,000 tons in 1944;
wartime steel output above 500,000 tons, coke plant capacity 702,000 tons;
the only plant in German Silesia taken over by the Poles intact,except for bloom-
ing mill shipped away by the Russians; composed in 1956 of three coke batteries
type Kogog and Otto,each at 45 ovens; ore agglomeration plant Greenawalt of 13
units,capacity 240,000 tons /Steel Developments/; two blast furnaces at 400 tons
per day capacity and one at 550 tons, another blast furnace not in operation;
Martin pig regarded as best in Poland,also foundry iron,Spiegeleisen and ferro-
manganese; open hearth shop of 8 furnaces all of which are gradually being
altered into Venturi chromo-magnesite model; a blooming mills of apparently 1
million tons capacity, delivered in 1952 by Soviet plants; rolling plant includ-
ing the first stage of a new bar rolling mill installed in 1954,also a large
plate mill; working of steel plants but not other divisions often described as
faulty;
annual pig iron capacity 480,000 tons /Steel Devts/,actual output in 1955 not
much lower; estimated steel output in 1955 above 700,000 tons;
under new long-range plan, blast furnace C to be reconstructed, output of plates
to rise by 1957 by 60,000 tons; other projects not knomnl.
(note: 1955 production of pig iron, 464, 000 tons; of crude steel, 431,000
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/BIERUT/ C ZESZOCHOWA integrated plant under extension
at Rak6w, S suburb of Czestochowa, N of the coal basin; compsed of two plants;
OLD PLANT: f.1897 by Bernard Hantke,subsequently half-owned by Gleiwitz metal-
lurgists; interwar onwed by Modrzejow-Hantke /Polish/ United Mining 4c Metallurg-
ical Works Co; seized by Germans in 1939;
composed in 1938 of one blast furnace of 250 tons,another of 300 tons daily cap-
acity not in operation, 2 open hearth furnaces as 60 tons and one at 50 tons,
presumed annual capacity 110,000 tons; making commercial steel,rails,sheets and
wire; damaged and partly looted during World War II but reconstructed; plant
obsolete but described as working very well,esp. the steel plant.
NSi PLANT being built since 1951 next to old one; supposed to produce after term-
ination 1,000,000 tons of crude steel; construction discontinued in 1953 and
supposed to take place only after 1960 with exceptions quoted below;
composed 1956 of two coke batteries under construction and an ore agglomeration
plant both suppoed to be put into operation early in 1957,two blast furnaces at
862 cubic meters each,built in 1953, steel plant No 2, composed of 6 open hearth
furnaces at 75 tons each,built in 1951-52; a roughing mill built in 1951 and a
Soviet-made tube rolling mill inaugurated in 1952; working in part on local ores
supposed to cover half of its requirements; an ore defriezing plant, a very large
ore conveyer a portique 300 meters long a large power plant under construction;
plan to built steel plant No 3 of 6 open hearth furnaces at 185 tons each, an
electric steel plant and a plate mill delayed till after 1960; because of lack
of own coke and non-termination by 1956 of ore agglomerating plant regarded as
inefticinet and very expensive,heavy annual losses; steel plant defective,demands
long repairs, tube rolling plant also working badly;
3stimated 1955 pig iron output of old and new plants 430,000 tons /new one
375,000 tons/,capacity much larger; estimated joint steel output about 460,000
tons, new plant being much behind schedule.
/DZIHRZYNSKI/ former HUTABANEDWA integrated plant
at Dabrowa Gdrnicza, NE of Sosnowiec, N of the coal basin;
f.1839 by Bank of /Congress/ Poland,hence the name, had a.o. the first coke
blast furnace in Russian Empire; owned until 1939 by Wench Huta Bankowa Metal-
lurgic Co; sold under duress during World War II to German interests;
composed in 1938 of two blast furnaces at 150 tons,one open hearth furnace at
100 tons and four at 60 tons, a blooming mill,a sheet mill, three profile rol-
ling mills,forge with 4 hammers, iron foundry with 4 copulas; making a.o.
rails,plates,sheets,rods,hoops,strip,wire,malleable iron, crucible steel,hot
welded pipes; capacity of both iron works and steel plant described as 140,000
tons /Organization/;
damaged during World War II,gradually rebuilt and modernized, blast furnaces
obsolete, two new open hearth furnaces inaugurated in 1952, equipment for rol-
ling plant supplied from Italy in 1947; rolling plant expected to be rebuilt
before 1955, all interwar lines of production maintained,steel plant still
regarded as efficient; renamed after Dzieriynski in 1951;
estimated 1955 pig iron output with one blast, furnace working/ 90 000 tons,
steel output 700,000 tons /Stee Developments/, in fact probably hgher.
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ELBLAG steel plant
at ELblag /G.ELbing/, on the Baltic Sea E of Gdansk /G.Danzig/;
originally a steel division of F.Schichau Werft, a shipyard which also had iron
and steel foundry, also serving Bossing automobile parts work; the two plants
employed 25,000 men;
largely destroyed during the siege df 1945 and subsequently stripped of all
equipment by the Russians; gradually rebuilt as Gen.Swierczewski :Engineering
and Turbine plant; classified as metallurgic plant having a steelmaking division;
probably includes open hearth furnace or furnaces in its steel foundry; very
little known about this plant;
crude steel output in 1948-49 about 50,000 tons /European Steel Trends,1949,
p.117/; datum not quite convincing; no recent figures available.
FERRUM m steel and tube rolling plant
at Katowice, Eastern Upper Silesia;
f.1836, assigned to Poland in 1921, owned by Pokbj state-controlled Co; during
World War II controlled by Ballestrem holding concern;
enlarged in the interwar period,composed in 1938 of two open hearth furnaces
with Joint capacity of 54,000 tons of steel, and a tube rolling plant for welded
high-pressure tubes of large diameter, a screw and rivet factory;
damaged during World War II,subsequently rebuilt and enlarged, composed 1955 of
a steel shop, being modernized, a foundry being reconstructed, a mechanical
division, a screw factory and a tube plant making welded tubes above 400 mm in
diameter and supplying pipelines to many countries; tube output represents one-
fourth of Polish output in tonnage and one half in value /description in
Wiadomo6ci Hutnicze,l956,p.26 ff/; also equipment for boilers;
regarded as a very good plant; supposed to increase its output by 25 per cent
by 1960; steel furnaces will be deepened;
estimated steel output in 1955 about 55,000 tons.
FIORIAN integrated plant
at Swietochlowice, SW of Chorz6w, in Eastern Upper Silesia;
former Bethlen-Falva plant, part of the Bismarckh"utte Co, in late interwar
period owned by the Community of Interests Polish Co,1938 composed of a coke
plant of 173,000 tons annual capacity, two blast furnaces at 15D cubic meters
each, one open hearth at 100 tons and five at 60 tons, a blooming mill, a strip,
a sheet and a profile rolling mills, a cold rolling mill and a construction
shop;
during World War II tperated by Krupp's; after war regarded as obsolete and
supposed to be dismantled; however rebuilt and modernized in 1948-49 and again
later on; one blast furnace enlarged to 25D cubic meters in 1949 /Cordero re-
gards it as a new one/,new open hearth furnaces added in 1953, a new blooimng
mill in 1955, new spa rolling mill in 1953; production plans not met in 1951-
53,large percentage of rejects;
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/continuation on Florian plant/
composed in 1953 of medium and light section mills, a cold reduction mill,
equipment for small seamless tubes, tinning facilities and a foundry /Steel
Developments/ in addition to coke plant, blast furnaces and steel shop;
supposed to be rebuilt in 1956-58; 1955 production of pig iron 179,000 tons;
of crude steel 314,000 tons.
GLIWICE MAY FIRST steel and rolling plant
at Gliwice /G,Gleiwitz/, on the Klodnicki Canal, in Western Upper Silesia;
a plant arisen out of the amalgamation of three or four interwar plants
whose equipment,sepecially rolling mills and forges,have been removed by
the Russians in 1945; gradually put again into operation after 1947;
successor to 1. Prussian state foundry, f.1796, originally a small integrated
plant /first blast furnace on the European continent working on coke/, 1937
known as Kunstgiesserei of the Prussian Itate Mining and Metallurgic Co,
basic,acid and electric steel castings, ferroalloys,mining machinery; 2.
Stahlwerke Gleiwiz and Stadtwerke Gleiwitz,owned by Vereinigte Oberschlesische
Htlttenwerke Co, 3 basic open hearth furnaces, a steel foundry with one open
hearth furnace, malleable and crucible steel furnaces and four rolling mills;
making a.o. iron and steel castings of very large dimensions, motor car frames,
railroad equipment and freight cars; 3. Stahlrtlhrenwerk Gleiwitz-Stadtwald,
seamless and welded tubes; 4. Gleiwitzer Draht- and Nggelwerk, all kind of
wire,nails,screws,rivets, 1937 a cold rolling mill, during World War II also
a rolling and crucible steel plant.
only a part of this joint capacity rebuilt by 1955,compsed of three open hearth
furnaces of unknown capacity, some rolling mills, and a large steel foundry;
tube plant probably not reactivated; described in 1955 as the best steel plant
in Poland, open hearth furnace No 3 record output of steel per one square
meter of area in 1955;
outside of May First plant,there is in Gliwice a wire plant and two industrial
equipment plants specialized a.o. in metallurgical equipment; building in 1954-
55 very large /360 tons capacity/ tilting Siemens-Martin furnaces for the Nowa
Huta plant;
steel output unknown, possibly above 2DO,000 tons in 1955?
OM)O: _JLAURA/_ointegrated plant
at Siemianowice,halfway between Chorzow and Sosnowiec,in Eastern Upper Silesia;
f.1835 as Laurahtttte$owned by Vereinigte Kenigshtltte & Laura Works,assigned to
Poland in 1921,taken over by Community of Interests Polish state-controlled Co;
1938 composed of two obsolete blast furnaces with joint annual capacity of
108,000 tons, one open hearth furnace at 6o tons and another at 40 tons, a
section mill, plate and sheet mills,the former with two stands,and two Mannes-
mann tube rolling units;
no information about its pig iron output,if any after World War II, a new
open hearth furnace /or furnaces/ added in 1952-53,also a new tube rolling
mill in 1955; plant praised for its performance in 1953 and 1955;
steel output unknown, possibly about 100,000 tons in 1955.
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NQSC IUSZK) ink ted _plant
at Chorzow, Eastern Upper Silesia;
f.1802 as K8nigshtttte, throughout the 19th century the largest iron and steel
plant in Silesia, owned by Vereinigte K8nigs- and Laurahtitte Co, assigned to
Poland in 1921, since 1935 owned by Community of Interests Polish state-con-
trolled Co;
plant enlarged in the interwar period,Thomas converters closed, a coke plant
added in 1932 /annual capacity 243,000 tons/, d blast furnace A built in 1937,
capacity 42D cubic meters; name of plant changed to Huta Pixsudski; in 1938
composed of a coke plant, four blast furnaces /three old ones/ with joint cap-
acity of 282,000 tons, seven open heatrh furnaces of joint capacity of 360 tons,
a blooming mill,a strip mill,one profile mill with foub stands and another with
seven stands, a Morgan wire mill with four stands, and a forge with 12 hammers;
a large power plant;
during World War II run by Krupp's; after war renamed Kosciuszko plant, modern-
ized and extended as one of the key positions of Six-Year Plan,planned uicitim-
ately to produce over 650,000 tons of pig iron and of rolled goods,and up to
900,000 tons of steel; extension of plant stopped in 1954 before this capacity
was achieved;
composed in 1956 of an ore agglomerating plant /one conveyer/, three coke bat-
teries,built by Czech plant in 1952-54, one blast furnace at 420 tons,rebuilt and
enlarged in 1947 and two at 769 Cubic meters,built in 1952-53, open hearth shop
(including two fixed furnaces at 5D tons,one tilting at 160 tons and another
at 300 tons /Steel Developments/,using hot metal practice, a blooing mill,
a 75o an heavy section mill, a medium 42D mm mill and a light 310/330 mm mill,
and a Morgan mill; also a foundry and a tube division;
praised for its metal production in 1955, ahead of schedule in 1951)1953 and
1955, four heats per day made in one steel furnace; 8000 employed in the spring
of 1953; agglomeration plant regarded as insufficient;
pig iron output in 1955 604,000 tons; of crude steel 427,000 tons.
L.ABEDY /former STALIN/ steel and rolling plant
at Labedy /G.Laband/,NW of Gliwice,on the Elodnicki Oanal,Western Upper Silesia;
a merger of two plants existing prior to 1945: 1. Herminienhtitte,f.1849, in 1938
owned by Vereinigte Oberschlesische HUttenwerke Co, medium and small profiles
rolling mills,cold rolling mill, two thin sheets mills,wire; a heavy 750 mm
two-stand mill added in 1938; 2. Werk Laband, a modern steel plant owned by
Vereinigte Deutsche Nickelwerke Co, built in the late thirties and doubling as
a tank plant;
all rolling equipment dismantled and shipped away by the Russians in 1945,though
some of it might have been returned; plant closed until 1947; decision taken in
1948 to rebuild and extend plant as one of key items of Six-Year Plan; a new
open hearth furnace built in 1952,another in 1953,a pparently at 90 tons capacity;
extension stpped in 1954 and apparently no longer envisaged; plant praised for
its performance in 1954 and 1955; it has a mechanical division building for ex.
a 10 tons matrix hammer for shipyards, rolling mills described as among the best
in Poland;
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MALAPAN. special steel and rolling plant
at Ozimek, $ of Opole,on Maxopiana river,in Western Upper Silesia;
f.1753 by Frederick the Great, known as Malapane plant,owned by Prussian state;
open hearth shop and rolling mills closed during the depression, prewar production
steel castings, electric steel,allois; some facilities carried away Ana by
Russians in 1945; monthly rate of production in 1945 2000 tons; open hearth shop
resumed operations after the war; May 1954, a new electric steel plant put into
operation consisting of 'several' electric steel furnaces,two of which constructed
at the plant itself, 1955 a hew steel foundry opened; plant subordinated to
special steels division of ministry of metallurgy, Soviet advisres present there;
apparently a very large number of people employed working on three shifts;
there is steel rolling;
steel output in 1955 possibly exceeding 50,000 tons.
NOWA HUTA /LENIN/ integrated plant under extension
at Nowa Huta, S suburb of Cracow,on the Vistula river;
the key plant of Polish Six Year and Five-Year plans and the largest single plant
under construction in Soviet-controlled part of Europe; allegedly entirely planned
by Soviet engineers on the modernized model of the Zaporozhe plant; the bulk of
equipment and machinery to be supplied by Soviet Union on the basis of trade
agreement of 1948; the share of equipment made in Poland greatly increased since
1953;
originally planned to produce 1,000,000 tons of pig iron and 1,500,000 tons of
crude steel, subsequently up to 2,000,000 tons of iron and even more steel;
plan cut down in 1955 to 1,300,000 tons of iron and 1,600,000 tons of steel by
1960,with prospects of further extension;
construction began in 1949; by the end of 1956,the plant was composed of an ore
preparation plant with four conveyers,annual capacity claimed to be 2,700,000
tons of ore; four coke batteries and two under construction,first million tons
of coke made by January 1956; two blast furnaces at 1050 cubic meters and No 3
under construction at 1386 cubic meters,the largest in Europe east of the Ruhr;
three fixed open hearth furnaces at 180 tons and thteetilting ones at 370 tons,
No 7 fixed furnace at 370 tons under construction; two electric furnaces-
blooming mill with alleged 2,500,000 tons capacity; a continuous hot rrlling
wide strip mill; a refractory material plant with three dibisions; a cement
plant to use slag; a very large power plant; iron and steel foundries;
plant supposed to work on a mixture of Gliwice,Rybnik and dalbrzych coking coals,
Krivoi Rog ore and,in the future,of local bog ores specially processed, and
scrap from the plant itself,working on fluid metal on full metallurgical cycle;
nearly all steel to be used for plate and sheet production;
under construction in 1956,besides already quoted, a cold rolling sheet mill of
very large dimensions', planned to be built before 1960, four open hearth furnaces
of 185 /two/ and 370 tons /two/ capacity; investment until the end of 1955 estim-
ated at 771 'investment! dollars equal to 15 zlotys each; among further planned
facilities are a small profile mill and a draw wire mill; planned capacity of
iron foundry 90,000 tons; original official plan of iron output in 1960 raised
by plant's manpower council from 1,850,000 tons to 1,980,000 tons,reduced because
blast furnace No 4 will be built after 1960;
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coke output in 1956 about 1,100,000 tons; pig iron output in 1955 about 600,000
tons,expected in 1956-645,000 tons,in 1957-74O,O00 tons,in 1958,after the blowing
of blast furnace No 3- 1,200,000 tons; first million tons of steel made by Jan.l,
1957, probable output in 1955-300,000 tons,in 1956-700,000 tons, expected in 1960-
1,800,000 tons; no data for plate output,much of it sold abroad; average productiv-
ity of steel furnaces in June 1956 described as 6.81 ton3 per day and square meter
of-surface, however high percentage of rejects; cost of pig iron 935 zlotys per
ton,the lowest in Poland; plant described as yielding profit since mid-1956;
28,000 emplo-.? ed in July 19 56 .
OS TROWIPL___1NOWD TID/ integrated plant
at Ostrowiec, about 25 miles SSW of Radom, in Central Poland;
f.1845, owned by Ostrowiec Blast Furnaces and Iron Co /Polish/; during World War
II operated by Hermann Goering Works;
composed in 1938 of one blast furnace of 15D tons per day capacity,another not
in operation, 6 open hearth furnaces at 60 tons, 3 profile rolling mills, forge
with 20 hammers and 4 presses, making railroad equipment,freight cars, a pipe
foundry,malleable iron; steelmaking capacity 140,000 tons;
plant looted and dynamited by Germans in 1944; gradually rebuilt,especially
steel plant; composed in 1956 of two old blast furnaces and a new blast furnace
/possibly reconstructed/ put in operation in September 1954, fully automatic,
cubature unknown; a new open hearth furnace added in 1953, a rolling milli in
1947 and another in 1953, a pipe foundry for pipes of 80-300 mm by 3-5 meters;
rolling goods include sections,bars,tires,rails; large freight car plant;
plant being extended in 1955;
estimated 1955 steel output above 100,000 tons.
POIff)J' integrated plant
at Nowy Bytom, halfway between Chorzow and Zabrze,Sastern Upper Silesia;
f.1840 as Friedenshtltte, interwar owned by Obesrachlesische Sisenbahnbedarf Co,
since 1933 by Pok6j Polish state-controlled Co; during World War II operated by
Ballestrem holding concern;
in 1938,composed a coke plant with annual capacity of 440,000 tons,two blast
furnaces at 350 tons,two at 250 tons and three obsolete and not working at 150
tons, annual capacity 420,000 tons of iron; steel plant with one open hearth
furnace at 100 tons and four at 60 tons, a blooming mill,a strip mill,two sheet
mills with 15 stands,two profile mills with 8 stands,a cold rolling Sedzimir
mill, a forge with 8 hammers, a machinery shop;
plant reconstructed and modernized since the war, one coke battery dismantled and
old steel plant about to be dismantled because of obsolescence; a new blast
furnace added /or old reconstructed/ in 1953, a new open hearth furnace added in
1953, large plate mill put into operation in 1954,representing 23 per cent of
the then Polish capacity; a new 'giant' rolling mill under construction in 1956;
one electric furnace; 6 blast furnaces in operation in 1953 /Steel Developments/
with joint capacity of 1110 tons daily and 425,000 tons annually;
pig iron output in 1955 - 424,000 tons; of crude steel 429,000 tons.
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SILFgSIA rolling plant
at Paruszowice, N of Rybnik,Eastern Upper Silesia;
f.1898, assigned to Poland in 1921, since 1935 owned by Pok6j Polish state-cont-
rolled Co, during World War II by Bal_lestren holding concern;
a fine sheet rolling mill with 5 stands,very badly damaged during the war and
rebuilt afterwards, new divisions apparently added, covers much Polish demand
for tinplate, production data unavailable.
SOSNOWLE metallurgical center
at Sosnowiec, E of Katowice, and vicinity;
a group of small iron,steel and rolling plants dating from the 19th century and
largely obsolete by 1939, which suffered much damage during World War II and
have been partially enlarged,renamed and merged since 1945 with their prewar
identity confused;
they are: 1. BUCZXK, former KATARZTNA integrated plant, f.1881, interwar owned
by Modrzejo Hantke Co, 1938 composed of two blast furnaces not in operation,
two open hearth furnaces, one sheet mill of 4 stands, welded tubes division and
an iron foundry; 1953 composition described as one blast furnace of 12D tons
per day capacity, open hearth shop with 60,000 tons of steel capacity,sheet mill
with 2),000 tons capacity and tube capacity of 7,000 tons /Steel Developments/;
also screw factory and mechanical division; plant seems to be operated jointly
with the Sosnowiec plant,see below;
2. C EDLER, former R [ARD_rolling mill, old plant interwar owned by
French Huta Bankowa Co, wire rod and wire products,forge and press;
3. MILOWICE rolling mill, f.1883,originally a small integrated works,
interwar owned by Mcdrzejpw-Hantke Co, in 1938 composed of three profile mills,
a forge with 6 hammers, a screw and hook factory; rolling mills may no longer
be in operation; described as a forge and pressing department /Steel Develop-
ments/; possibly identical with Fbrged Products Works at Milowice;
4. S09NOWi$3 steel and rolling plant, f.1881, interwar owned by French
Sosnowiec Co of Tube and Iron Works, in 1938 composed of two electric furnaces,
,one sheet mill; main output seamless Wellman tubes; described in 1953 as com-
posed of an open hearth shop /not in operation in 1938/, roughing mills, seamless
and butt welded tubes,cold drawing plant and malleable iron foundry /Steel Devel-
opments/; a new tube rolling mill added in 1955, also makes cold drawn tubes;
regarded as an efficient plant, apparently operated in merger with the Buczek-
Katarzyna plant nearby;
5..S TASZIC2 former PUSZKIN rolling mill, wire drawing;
iron and steel output figures not available,can not be large.
S TAL)WA WOLA special steel and rolling plant
at Stalowa Wola, on the San river, about 30 miles N of Rzeszow, province of
RZeszow;
built in 19377-39 by the Polish government, most construction done by German
firms; regarded as the most efficient plant in Poland;
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1939 composed of two open hearth furnaces at 30 tons,heated on natural gas,
two electric arc furnaces at 15 tons and three high frequency electric furnaces
at 0.3, 1 and 2 tons respectively, total capacity 84,000 tons annually /Organ-
ization/; a small blooming mill, one sheet mill with two stands,three profile
rolling mills with 16 stands, a forge with 10 hammers,four presses up to 25)O
tons; cold drawn rods,springs, gun division;
during World War II operated by Stahlwerk Braunschweig, 1941 production at the
annual rate of 54,000 tons steel and 72,000 tons rolled steel; partly looted
in 1944 by Germans; production resumed after war,52O0 employed in 1947;
much extended during Six-Year Plan,large power plant added, plant subordinated
to special steels division of ministry of metallurgy, gunmaking facilities
assumedly much enlarged; existence of blast furnace /Steel Developments/ not
confirmed;
no data about steel available, output may approach 150,000 tons annually.
S TARAC HOWIC E integrated plant
at Starachowice, about 2) miles S of Radom,in Central Poland;
iron works in intermittent existence for several hundred years, interwar owned
by Starachowice Mining Co, partly controlled by Polish government; during World
War II seized by Hermann Goering Works;
1938 composed of one blast furnace of 150 tons daily capacity,two open hearth
furnaces at 30 tons, two are electric furnaces at 5 tons and one high-frequency
furnace at 0.5 tons; annual steelmaking capacity 72,000 tons; three profile
mills, cold drawn rods, a forge with 5 hammers, a 2000 tons press, own small
fireproof bricks plant; making special steels, &ron and steel castings,construct-
ion steel, boilers, arms and ammunition; during was making gun shells and armor
plates;
new facilities from Dance and Belgium supplied by Germans during the war,but
plant heavily damaged as their withdrawal; plant modernized and much enlarged
under the Six-year Plan, a new /or reconstructed/ blast furnace blown in 1951;
only metallurgical Polish plant administered by Ministry of Defense; details
of enlargement not available; much metal processed in automobile division of
the plant manufacturing Star trucks; probable large output of amnuni4tion;
iron and steel output not available, may be in the vicinity of ])0,000 tons.
SX ZMr IN iron works.
at Stolczyn, N suburb of Szczecin /G.Stettin/,on the Oder river;
f. 1898 by Count von Donnersmarck,known as isenwerk Kraft at Kratzwieck-
Stolzenhagen,interwar owned by Hochofenwerk Lfibeck Co,194o taken over by
Mitteldeuteche Stahlwerke Co;
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originally consisting of three blast furnaces at 150 tons daily capacity and a
coke plant of 130 ovens; working on Swedish iron ore and British coal; foundry
iron made;
nearly completely destroyed during the siege of Stettin in 1945 and looted of
all equipment by the Russians; one blast furnace restored in 1947 and enlarged
to 180 tons capacity,another in 1949 to the capacity of 250 tons; coke plant,
prewar capacity 400,000 tons, rebuilt in 1948; a blast furnace rebuilt in 1954
with capacity increased b'r 13 per cent; plant has an agglomeration plant;
capacity of works in 1953 described as 155,000 tons per year /Steel Developments.
output in 1953 given as about 90,000 tons, in 1955 presumably much higher.
WARSZAWA special steel and rolling plant under construction
at Mlociny, N suburb of Warsaw,on the left bank of the Vistula;
under construction since 1952,delayed a.o. because of the marshy site; expected
to supply by 1958 180,000 tons of crude steel and 120,000 tons of electric steel;
to consist of three open hearth furnaces at 75 tons each /for special steels/,
two electric furnaces at 45 tons each, a blooming mill, heavy and medium profile
mills, pressing and drawing divisions, and a steel foundry;
one electric furnace to be put into operation early in 1957, and the remaining
furnaces and blooming mill by 1958, other facilities in 1959-61; when termin-
ated, plant supposed to employ 8300 people.
ZAWIEW IE integrated slant
at Zat+iercie, 20 miles S of Czestochowa, N of the coal basin;
f.1902 by Huldschinsky & Sons Co, interwar owned by French Sosnowiec Tubes &
Iron Co;
in 1938,composed of one blast furnace of 55,000 tons annual capacity, 4 open
hearth furnaces at 30 tons each, a blooming mill, 3 profile mills, a small
electric furnace, and a steel construction shop; 1943 output 65,000 tons of
steel;
partly destroyed in 1945, restored and modernized since, a new rolling mill
added in 1953; plant praised for its performance in 1952 and 1953; one open
hearth furnace enlarged by 10 tons capacity,other expected to be enlarged in
1956;
estimated iron output in 1955- 50,000 tons, steel output about 100,000 tons.
ZYGMUNT steel and rolling plant
at tagiewniki Gorne, between Bytom and Chorzow, in Eastern Lipper Silesia;
obsolete plant formed of the merger of former Hubertushtitte and Martahltte,
owned by Kattowitzer Mining & Smelting Co; interwar property of Community of
Interests Polish Co;
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originally a small integrated plant, blast furnaces closed in 1929; inm1938,
3 open hearth furnaces in operation at 25 tons each, a foundry, a boiler forge
and a construction shop; at Marta division, a small steel and rolling plant;
rebuilt after 1945, an open hearth furnace built or rebuilt in 1948; obsolete
coke plant of 260,000 tons capacity was reconstructed in 1952-53;
steel output unknown,probably very small.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
iciclopedia Romaniei, vol.III,Sconornia Nationala,Bucuresti,1939.
Steel Developments in Rumania, British Iron and Steel Federation, London,
February,1952.
BRAILA steel and rolling plants
at Braila on the Danube, S of Galati, in Moldavia;
two prewar plants:
1. former Goldenberg works, f.1929, bar rolling mill with capacity of
25,000 tons in 1934, subsequent],y enlarged, and
2. former Industria Sarmei plant, now PROGRMUL, prewar capacity and
30,000 tons of bars and wire;open hearth and electric steel made
since 1951;
steelmaking capacity and output unavailable.
BRASOV metallurgical plants
at Brasov /G.Kronstadt,H.Brasso, also known as Orasul .Stalin/, in SS Transyl-
vania ;
seat of several large metal-processing plants some of which also make their own
steel:
1. ASTRO-VAGDANE rol].ing stock and armament-plant, has its own open
hearth furnaces working on natural gas /one completed in 1947/;
2. SOVROMTRACZOR nt has electric' steel furnaces, forge and foundry;
3. STEAGUL HOSU ball-bearing plant has an open hearth furnace since 1950,
also making special steels;
estimated capacity of three plants above 50,000 tons of crude and electric steel,
output not available.
BUCHAREST meta1lur&ical_plants
at Bucharest and vicinity, seat of several large metal-processing plants,some of
which make and roll their own steel:
1. AUGUST 23 plant, f.1928 as Malaxa Loconative abd Machinery Works, oper-
ated during World War II by ROGIF. Rumanian-German Co; has since 1936
a steel and rolling division; 1939, composed of two open hearth fur-
naces at 25 tons and several electric furnaces, 1944 capacity 65,000
tons of steel, a new open hearth furnace added in 1950, some of fur-
naces heated on natural gas; estimated steelmaking capacity above
100,000 tons annually, output not available;
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2. INDUSTRIA Dg FIER steel rolling plant, 1939 capacity ]0,000 tons;
3. REPUBLICA tube plant, formerly a division of Malaxa works, now
much extended and operated separately; a large plant;
4. VtIII;AN steel rolling plant,f.1936,rebuilt and extended since 1939,
has an electric steel furnace since 1951.
ALAN VIC IORIA iron works
at Calan, E of Hunedoara, in Transylvania;
f.1871, originally a small integrated plant, closed in 1918,reactivated in 1934,
Awned interwar by Titan-Nadrag-Calan Co, in 1938 composed of a blast furnace
of 100 tons daily capacity working do charcoal,one of the largest in the world;
blast furnace No 2 added in 1951,working on coke; joint capacity in 1952 de-
scribed as 70,000 tons; a grey iron foundry and an enamel work; output of iron
not available.
CAMPIA TURZII1steel and rolling plant
at Campia Turzii, Sts of Cluj in Transylvania;
originally owned by Industria Sarmei Co; has an open hearth furnace since 1951,
a rolling aggregate built in 19W; special steels and wire.
F.ERDINAND steel and rolling plant,
at Severin, in Banat;
an old plant owned interwar by Titan-Nadrag-Calan Co, enlarged interwar, com-
posed in 1939 of 4 open hearth furnaces,capacity 100,000 tons /1938 output
70,000 tons of steel/,one bar rolling mill,one profile mill, and one sheet
rolling mill; also one Henault electric are furnace; conflicting official
information about capacity and output of rolling mills,the latter allegedly
being ]03,000 tons; 1944, also iron and steel foundry, drawn wire made;
1948 capacity described as 70,000 tons of steel; no further data available;
recent output of steel not available.
HUNED0ARA /GHEDRGHIU-D J/ integrated plant
/H.Vajda-Hunya
a t Hunedoara,halfway between Timisoara and Sibiu,in Transylvvnia,on the Mures
river;
f.1882 by the Hungarian state on the site of an old iron works, operated since
1919 by RIWA Co /Mining and Metallurgic State Enterprises in Transylvania/;
originally an iron works supplying metal to Hungarian steel plants and iron
foundry for cast iron pipes- in interwar period steel furnaces and rolling plant
added; in 1943 composed of three blast furnaces working on charcoal and two
working on coke,all regarded as obsolete; annual ironmaking capacity 155,000
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tons,maAximum output 110,000 tons of iron; four open hearth furnaces at 25 tons
and one electric furnace, alleged steelmaking capacity 105000 tons /?/; rolling
mills for bars and commercial iron,alleged capacity 150,000 tons per year; iron
casting capacity 12,000 tons;
reconstruction and enlargement of plant provided in Five Year Plan 1951-56;
a blast furnace blown in in 1952, annual capacity 45,000 tons of iron, another
of larger capacity in 1955, and still another in 1956, assumedly of 650 cubic
meters capacity annual capacity 200,000 tons; two open hearth furnaces enlarged,
another added in 1950, still another 'of 'very large capacity' blown in 1952; 3
electric furnaces added in 1951; an ore beneficiating plant put into operation
in 1952; one coke battery opned under Five-Year Plan, another under construction
in 1956, planned joint capacity 600,000 tons /1955 planned output 160,000 tons/;
two rolling mills put into operation in 1950;
plant constantly suffering from insufficient supply of fuel ores and electic
power,and working much below its capacity; its further enlargement planned under
the second Five Year Plan 1956-60;
roughly estimated pig iron production in 1955 above 300,000 tons, much more in
195h; steel output in 1955 estimated at above $30,000 tons.
MAY FIRST steel plant
at Ploesti,45 miles N of Bucharest;
former Concordia plant,f.1936, electric steel plant,composed of 2 Heroult arc
furnaces at 3 and 0.5 tons; also an iron foundry; postwar developments not
available.
NADRAG rolling plant
at Gevojdia, near Severin, in Banat;
f.1850,originally a small iron and rolling plant owned by a Hungarian firm; inter-
war owned by Titan-Nadrag-Calan Rumanian Co; iron output discontinued, 1939
composed of two small sheet rolling mills,capacity 15,000 tons per year; also
tinplate goods; postwar data unavailable.
RMITA, /L iN/ integrated plant
at Resita /H.Resicza/, about 50 miles Sg of Timisoara, in Banat;
plant existing since 1718, iron made on coke since 1846,steel since 1868; prior
to 1919 owhed by Austro-Hungarian railroads, property changed hands several times
during the interwar period,1941 taken over by Hermann Goering i4orks,1945 seized
by the Russians and until 1955 operated by SOVROMMETAL Soviet-Rumanian mixed Co;
1955 returned to the Rumanian state;
early vertical concern including all stages of metal production and processing;
much enlarged and modernized since 1919; in 1939 composed of a coke plant built
in 1934,capacity 80,000 tons,two blast furnaces with Joint capacity of 100,000
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ton,6 open hearth furnaces and two are electric furnaces at 6 and 2 tons,joint
capacity 260,000 tons, 7 rolling mills including a reversible blooming mill,
plate,sheet and universal rolling mills, joint capacity 260,000 tons, a refract-
ory material plant,dron and steel foundries, 16,000 employed in 1938; also a
locomotive plant, railroad material,ekectrical machinery and armaments;
1950 output 110,000 tons of coke and 242,000 tons of steel crude and electric;
a 23-oven battery added in 1949, prewar blast furnaces reconstructed and enlarged,
two new ones built, some old open hearth furnaces modernized, three new ones
built by 1952; new electric power plant built in 1951; since 1953 extension of
plant discontinued;
in interwar and postwar periods plant operating below its capacity because of
shottage of iron ore since the rupture with Yugoslavia and of coking coal,as
well as power;estimated ironmaking capacity above 300,000 tons peryear,steel-
making capacity about 400,000 tons; actual output unavailable,may have reached
by 1955 about 225,000 tons of pig iorn and about 300,000 tons of steel.
ROMAN integrated plant under construction
at or in the vicinity of Roman, SE of Iasi, on the Siretul river in Moldavia;
a completely integrated plant to be built /first stage/ by 1960, presumably to
work entirely on Soviet coke and iron ore, to include a blast furnace of 650
cubic meters, a steel plant of ']00,000 tons annual capacity, a blooming mill
and a tube rolling mill for tubes of 400 mm diameter of 300,000 tons annual
capacity /Prime Minister Chivu Stoica, December 28,1955/;
construction of tube rolling mill intermittently going on since 1952.
TITAN rolling mill
at Galati,on Lower Danube, in Moldavia;
small plant interwar owned by Titan-Nadrag-Calan Co; 1939, two sheet rolling
mills,capacity up to 25,000 tons per year; also wire drawing; postwar data
unavailable.
VVFiITA iron works
at Vlahita N of Brasov, in Eastern Transylvania;
very old iron plant, two blast furnaces working on charcoal, joint capacity
7,000 tons; 1941-45 assigned to Hungary and known as Szentkereszbarva plant;
blast No 3, presumably also working on charcoal,added in 1900; high grade
iron of some specialized applications; output data unavailable.
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Ivan Crnic, Die jugoslawische Eisenindustrie,K8ln, Orthen,1938.
Stevan Kukoleca, Industrija Jugoslavije, Beograd, 1941.
Ivan Avsenek,Yugoslav Metallurgical Industry, New York, Mid-&ropean
Studies Center,1955.
ILIJAS iron works under construction
at Ilijas, N suburb of Serajevo,Bosnia;
expected to consist of three electric furnaces for iron smelting with joint annual
capacity of 81,000 tons, to be supplied by Norway and Sweden; also three casting
divisions;
one electric furnace of 27,000 tons capacity in operation; cast iron pipes up to
700 mm diameter made since 1954, capacity 16,500 tons per year; water pipes ex-
ported to Asia.
JESE\TICE integrated plant
at Jesenice /G.Assling/,on the Sava river about 35 miles NW of Ljubljana, near
the Austrian frontier in North-Western Slovenia;
f.1869,owned by Industrial Co of Carniola /Kraina/,the main plant of a concern
owning iron works at Trieste and iron ore mines in Austria,divided in 1919;
taken over by a Yugoslav consortium, 1937 composed of 4 open hearth furnaces at
35 tons each,4 rolling mills for strip,rails,bars and wire, and a fireproof mat-
erial plant,2,850 employed; 1937-41, two blast furnaces,another open hearth
furnace and rolling mills of large capacity added; 1939 output 51,000 tons of
pig iron,125,000 tons of crude steel and 85,400 tons of rolled goodd; best plant
in vugoslavia;
plant extended and modernized after World War II: capacity of blast furnaces al-
legedly doubled, open hearth furnace No 6 built in 1952, No 7 under construction;
two electric furnaces built with joint capacity of 9 tons of steel per heat; plant
now includes four profile mills with extended capacity, a plate mill and a sheet
rolling mill, all situated at the nearby auxiliary plant at Javornik /G.Jauerburg/,
and a drwn wire millat the Jasenice plant proper; also a cold rolling mill, forges
and steel foundry; an oxygen plant built in 1952;
plans called by 1955 for pig iron output of 125,000 tons, termination of open
hearth furnace No 7 and crude steel output of 234,000 tons, plus 9,000 tons of
electric steel,also modernization of strip and wire rolling mills and total output
of 183,000 tons of rolled goods; plant to specialize in the production of medium
sheets and heavy plates; about 16 million dollars spent on the reconstruction of
the plant since 1945;
7,000 tons welded tubes made in 1955, 10,000 tons in 1956; assumed pig iron output
about 100,000 tons in 1955, steel output about 200,000 tons in 1956.
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/KIDRIC/ i,I'IC steel and rolling plant under construction
at Niksic, about 30 miles NEW of Titograd /former Podgorica/, Montenegro;
plant under construction originally planned be terminated in 1958 and to produce
80,000 tons of steel in open hearth furnaces, 57,000 tons of special steels made
in three electric furnaces supplied by Sweden,48,000 tons of profile steel,
15,000 tons of thin sheets,15,000 tons of drawn steel and 4,000 tons of steel
castings; iron to be supplied by the Zenica works;
in operation late 1956 one open hearth furnace,capacity 27,000 tons and one
electric #urnace,capacity 10,000 tons; also a thin sheet mill,capacity 30,000
tons and a heavy profile mill,capacity 10,000 tons; supposed to be in operation
in 19.579 a cold rolling mill,capacity 15,000 tons.
RAVNE special steel and rolling plant
at Ravne hear Gustanj /G.Gutenstein/ on the Drava river,about 45 miles NE of
Ljubljana,Norther.n Slovenia;
f.1774,owned by Counth von Thurn,Vienna; 1937 composed of a small double open
hearth furnace,crucible and temper ovens, a rolling plant with three small
mills,joint daily capacity 160 tons, a foundry,a forge with 17 hammer's, a
press of 600 tons; 1939 output 8,000 tons of high-grade stee1,5,3 50 tons of
rolled steel; nearly all output exported;
after World War II modernized and extended; two small Bessemer converters added,
also another open hearth furnace and one electric furnace of 4 tons; another
electric steel furnace adried in 1955,largest in Yugoslavia,capacity 21D,000 tons;
interwar equipment of other divisions replaced by modern one;
plans call for the extension of capacity to 45,000 tons steel,half Martin and
hald electric, 12,500 tons of rolled steel and 5,000 tons of steel castings;
chrome,vanadium,molybdenum and chrome-nickel steels to be produced like in the
past;
actual output in 1955-56 not available.
SISAK integrated plant under extension
at Caprag near Sisak on the Sava river, about 35 miles SE of Zagreb,Croatia;
plant consisting prior to World War II of a small blast furnace working on
charcoal, 65 tons daily capacity, put into operation in 1939, and two small
rolling mills working on purchased steel;
being extended into a fully integrated plant, consisted in early 1956 of an
ore agglomerating plant, the prewar blast furnace possibly not in operation,
two postwar blast furnaces at 15o tons capacity each,two oil-heated open hearth
furnaces at 65 tons each,built in 1954; a seamless tube plant,built in 1954
by a Milan firm with the help of a loan from International Bank in Washington
/4,360,000 dollars/; iron foundry,capacity 5,000 tons,with an electric furnace
of 1.5 tons,also a small steel foundry; 22 million dollars spent upon the ex-
tension of the plant br the end of 1954;
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/SISAK continued/
plans call for the extension of ironmaking capacity to 700,000 tons and of steel-
making capacity tb 220,000 tons, also annual production of 62,800 tons of tubes
/target for 1957 - 40,000 tons/ and extension of iron foundry to 70,000 tons
capacity; erection of coke plant with 400,000 tons capacity envisaged;
capacity of plant only partly used because of shortages of raw materials and
power; 1955 production 28,000 tons of tubes,4,500 tons of iron castings and 250
tons of steel castings; expected gross output of entire plant 20,500,000 dol-
lars; expected export of tubes in 1956 - 22,000 tons,m?inly to India;
estimated output of pig iron in 1956 about 100,000 tons, of crude steel about
120,000 tons.
SMEDEREV0 steel and rolling plant
at Smederevo,on the Danube river,about 25 miles ST of Belgrade, North-Sastern
Serbia;
originally a metal-processing plant owned by Sartid Co, after 1933 extended
by a metalmaking and rolling division; composed of a small open hearth furnace
and a small rolling mill; 1939 output, 16,000 tons of crude steel,l2,70U tons
of rolled goods,2,200 employed; plate,construction steel,axles,nails,tools;
after World War II, an electric steel furnace built with capacity of 2,500
tons per year,also a small sheet rolling mill,capacity 4,000 tons,built in
1953; extension pl?ns call for erection of another open hearth furnace and
extension of steelmaking capacity to 47,000 tons, including 3,000 tons of
electric steel,and of rolling capacity to 30,000 tons;
assumed 1956 output of steel about 2D,000 tons; sheets exported.
STORE. integrated plant under extension
at Store,ca 5 miles $ of Celje, Slovenia;
f.1881 by Viennese capital,composed in 1939 of one open hearth furnace of 20
tons capacity, annual capacity 20,000 tons,processing pig iron from two char-
coal ironworks no longer active /Beslinac and 7ppusko/, three small rolling
mills, also an iron foundry; 1939 output 8,000 tons stee1,5,600 tons rolled
products; an efficient plant;
another open hearth furnace put into commission after World War II, capacity
of open hearth shop allegedly increased to 24,000 tons; an electric furnace
for ironmaking put into operation in 1955; capacity of rolling mills is to be
increased to 30,000 tons in three divisions, and the foundry's capacity to
18,000 tons;
actual data of output not available.
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ZIIIICA-VARES integrated plant
at Zenica, about 30 miles NW of Sarajevo, and Vares, about 25 miles NW of
Sarajevo,Bosnia;
f.1891 /Vares iron works/ and 1892 /Zenica steel and rolling plant/ by Viennese
capital; after several changes of ownership taken over in 1937 by Jngocelik
/Yugosteel/ state iron and steel concern; 1941-45 operated by Croatian Iron
and Steel Co; main Yugoslav metallurgic center under extension in the proxim-
ity of iron ore, non-coking coal and limestone deposits;
prior to 1936 composed at Vares of two obsolete blast furnaces,annual capacity
60,000 tons, an iron fouridrr,a steel foundry with a small electric oven and an
obsolete tube plant not in operation; at Zenica,of 3 open hearth furnaces,joint
capacity about 50 tons per heat,and four obsolescent rolling mills; extended
1936-41,t.o open hearth furnaces added at Zenica,No 4 built by Krupa-Zseen,
annual capacity increased to 95,000 tons; an electric furnace added; heavy
rolling mill rebuilt and extended by Krupp-Magdeburg,capacity increased to 180,000
tons; 1939 output, 50,600 tons of pig iron at Vares,79,400 tons of crude steel
and 2,800 tons of electric steel,as well as 55,300 tons of rolled steel at
Zenica; structural steel,rails,plates and sheets made;
plant much enlarged after World War II and supposed to be further enlarged;
composed late in 1956 of a coke plant of four batteries,built in 1953-56,
joint capacity 400,000 tons; also using coke from the nearby Lukavac plant
/working on local brown coal mixed with imported coking coal,plant still in
experimental stage/; of two blast furnaces built in 1954-55, joint annual
capacity 400,000 tons; six open hearth furnaces, some built with the help
of a loan from International Bank in dashington,D.C., and others under con-
struction; a blooming mill,first in Yugoslavia,built in 1953 by Brassert & Go
of Pittsburgh, Pa.., capacity 400,000 tons; in addition to prewar rolling facil-
ities, some equipment obtained as reparation goods from Watenstedt plant,
Hanover,Germany; this sheet mill modernized in 1955, annual capacity 36,000
tons; put in operation in 1956 or about to be installed in 1957, a wire mill,
capacity 70,000 tons, a medium profile mill,capacity 150,000 tons, a railroad
bandages mill, capacity 15,000 tons; a forge with 5100 tons press;
total investment in the plant by the end of 1955 - about 100 million dollars,
about 16 million dollars to be invest?d in the near futuret plant supnoser' to
reach the annual capacity of 600,000 tons of pig iron,755,000 tons of crude
steel /after the erection of four Bessemer converters/ and 540,000 tons of
rolling goods,mainly plates for shipbuilding; capacity of steelworks in 1956
described as 500,000 tons;
estimated output in 1956 about 250,000 tons of pig iron and about 425,000
tons of crude steel; about 120,000 tons of rolled goods /concrete reinforcement
rods,billets,structural steel /exported in 1956,mainly to Soviet Union and India.
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