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...For 10 years, Gaetan Geoffray worked as a plasterer and painter, before learning metalwork at a company that made cranes. Arnaud Dupuy was a policeman....
...“I’ll bring a crane mechanic over from a neighbouring platform, I don’t need one permanently stationed here,” said Mr Horin....
...Tough conditions in global energy markets led to a fall in profit margins at UK engineering conglomerate Smiths Group, which makes products from X-ray scanners to industrial valves....
...At John Crane, the oil and gas business that contributes the largest chunk of Smiths Group’s profit, nearly two-thirds of revenues come from after-sales activity....
...Alongside Facebook-owned Oculus, games companies such as Sony PlayStation and Valve are planning to release headsets of their own this year, with anticipated price tags of a few hundred dollars....
...“Every time we pick up a car, we’re making a bet on the company,” Mr Moorman says....
...The size deviation allowed in some valves made at Montrose is just zero to plus two millionths of a metre....
...A Chinese-built gantry crane – the dimensions of which dwarf London’s Tower Bridge – is assembling the huge steel blocks that are the main parts of two aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy....
...A crane?’ “Everything is short,” he said. “The market is extremely tense.”...
...Its long-lasting valves are exported to oil and energy customers around the world....
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