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Rakwon Machine Complex

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The Rakwon Machine Complex is one of the leading machine-building bases in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In May this year leader Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the complex, which is located in Sinuiju City, North Phyongan Province. He highly appreciated what the complex did in remoulding all the production processes and enhancing the production capacity to bring about a new surge in production.
    The complex has introduced IT into heat treatment and other processes and put the oil pressure technology on a high level, thus manufacturing such quality machines as 2-cubic-meter loader, oil-pressure excavator, self-inhaling pump, small-size bean-oil press and other kinds of machines.
    It started operation in September Juche 34 (1945).At that time it was the Sinuiju Machine Factory. It has manufactured numerous machines for the development of the national economy by fully displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and hard-working.
    In June 1952 when the Fatherland Liberation War was at its height, President Kim Il Sung inspected the factory and guided a meeting of the Party cell of its casting workshop to inspire the 10 Party members of the cell and other workers of the factory. They melted iron by operating the blower with a charcoal car and repairing the cupola furnace damaged by the enemy's indiscriminate bombing. In this way they ensured the war-time production even under difficult conditions.
    After the war they made Rakwon No.1-branded water pump, tower crane and truck crane, and produced thousands of water pumps in a short time.
    The President highly appreciated their indomitable revolutionary spirit and called on all other people of the country to learn from them.
    The complex has turned into a powerful machine-building center which is capable of making any machines and equipment such as 100-ton hydraulic truck, 4,000-cubic-meter oxygen plant, 8-cubic-meter movable oxygen plant, large-size bucket excavator, a new model of high-performance rotary drill, 4,000-cubic-meter nitrogen plant, 6,000-cubic-meter and 18,000-cubic-meter oxygen plants.