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Technical Modernization in DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- An extensive campaign for retooling existing equipment is being conducted in different sectors of the national economy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Much effort is being directed to reconditioning generating equipment in hydro-power stations.
    The Suphung Power Station has manufactured and installed highly efficient turbines of a new type and improved various kinds of equipment including stators of generators and oil cooler of large-size transformer.
    The Kanggye Youth Power Station has introduced new technical inventions into extending the serviceable life of impellers and raising their efficiency.
    Minor power stations in Jagang and other provinces have remodeled impellers in a rational way to generate more electricity with the same volume of water.
    Technical modernization of production processes are being dynamically accelerated in metal and machine-building industrial establishments.
    The Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex has introduced a new oxygen-blowing method into the oxygen furnace so as to remarkably shorten the steel-making time and improve the quality of steel.
    The Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex has renewed tundish nozzle of continuous roughing machine to save a great deal of fuel.
    Hundreds of technical inventions have been introduced into production at the Rakwon Machine-Building Complex.
    The technical modernization is taking place in chemical industrial establishments, mines and collieries, too.