History of a factory in Ragna - Neman

                

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The company was founded in 1912 and was called «Zellstoffabrik Ragnit AG» in the city Ragnit, East Prussia. It delivers paper in Konigsberg and Poland.

In 1932 Zellstoffabrik Ragnit AG joined the German group Waldhof enterprises. The company consisted of a pulp mill, paper mill, drying plant and distillery, had korodrobilok 5, 4 chippers, 5 digesters, 3 decanted, 2 PM, 2 pulp drying machine for the production of bleached pulp and other process equipment. It turned out to a monthly performance: bleached pulp - 2100 tonnes of securities - 1,000 tons, alcohol - 23,000 decaliters.

The factory worked two shifts to May 1944 as the defense enterprise. Under the threat of the entry of Soviet troops, he ceased production, and in the days of January 1945 has undergone a powerful bombardment of the Soviet Air Force as an important military site of the city.

After the capture of the city by Soviet troops was formed Ragnitsky pulp and paper mill, according to the order № 167 of May 11, 1945 People's Commissar of Industry of the USSR, in accordance with the decree of the USSR State Defense Committee on May 8, 1945 "On the use of pulp and paper mills in the cities of Tilsit , Kenigsberg, Ragnit, Klaipeda, conducted ".

                  

ruins TSBKV May - June 1945, the first settlers arrived Ragnit to restore the enterprise. In the first series of factory workers have become yesterday's war veterans, showing examples of heroism in peacetime. The plant was not a single car, a single unit in working condition. All the shops - huge holes in the walls, rubble, twisted metal girders explosions, piles of broken bricks, broken foundations. The city had no electricity, water, steam.

In January 1946 the first issue of large-circulation "Ragnitsky tsellyuloznik" newspaper. The first factory newspaper editor was a military journalist Vyacheslav Prokopevich Verkhovskii.

In April 1946 it completed the restoration of the first stage of the plant. The team restored the mill and passed the state commission high-voltage line Frindlyand - Ragnit 150 km, restored railway line Ragnit - Tilsit, launched primarily pulp, paper and steam power plants.

May 15, 1946 - a great day for the team of Neman Pulp and Paper Mill. On this day at the plant, regenerated in a short time from the ruins, it was developed first batch - 3600 kg wrapping paper.

In June 1946 he made the first pulping. Since October 1946 the inhabitants of the city began to receive water from the water pumping plant station. In February 1946, construction began on №2 paper mill in the former plywood factory. In March 1947, the plant begins to export pulp production. Manufacturing production went abroad, particularly in England.

    

recovery TSBK17 June 1947 the city was renamed Ragnit Neman city, in this connection, 30 June 1947 PPM Ragnitsky was renamed to Neman Pulp and Paper Mill, the newspaper "Ragnitsky tsellyuloznik" - in the "Neman wallet." Restored distillery and started the production of alcohol from liquor from the pulping.

Years of the plant after the war were very heavy. Here is an excerpt from the explanatory memorandum to the management of Neman PPM report on manufacturing activity Works for the year 1947 (January 1948).

"As a result, took place in the area of

military actions the plant was heavily damaged part of its production equipment was moved into Germany before the entry of Soviet troops in Ragnit.

In particular, it was withdrawn and removed equipment, the majority of electric motors, measuring instruments, the most valuable, acid and all electronic components and the number of parts from individual units.

Manufacturing recovery operations highly complicated due to lack of technical documentation (diagrams, drawings, etc.). and arrived to restore, start-up and operation of the plant staff did not know the equipment and in the vast majority earlier in the pulp and paper industry in general did not work.

Lack of self-elektrobazy, irregular and totally inadequate provision of electricity from "Kaliningradenergo" was not allowed to produce run-in and testing of equipment during and after the rehabilitation works and identify shortcomings that are hidden from visual inspection, and so the individual units and production units were put into operation without due diligence and testing ...

                       

Production testing Pulp Production testing of the refurbished equipment was launched in 1946. At the end of May 1946 was commissioned a paper machine number 2, and in the second half of July - the first stage of a pulp mill (the small production flow). Operational activities in 1946 continued until October, and October due to fuel constraints and the need to continue restoration work on the full range of technical equipment of the plant, the creation of stocks of raw materials, training and other reasons, the factory work was stopped and resumed from April 1947 ".

Recovery was long and difficult: a cost-effective Neman plant was only in 1958, when in the production of organized training. During the Soviet era plant produced printed paper, parchment, pasteboard, fodder yeast and alcohol.

If history bduet interesting, I will tell you how in the 2000-2012 year were stolen and cut into the metal paper-making machines, entrepreneurs from Moscow. The factory gave 2,000 jobs.

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