 In the late 1930s the company also branched into producing military equipment (artillery guns and anti-aircraft search lights).During the Second World War the company was confiscated and turned over to Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken and Cegielski's factories were used to produce various equipment for the German war machine.After the war, the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland, renamed (in 1953) the company to the "Joseph Stalin Metal Works in Poznań" ("Zakłady Metalowe im.