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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....
...Working first at Harvard and then at the University of Utah, Sutherland created his own headset, so heavy that it had to be attached to the ceiling using a small crane....
...They also need better valves to release the pressure that can build up and cause an explosion in a derailment, as well as insulating jackets to prevent fires spreading....
...The size deviation allowed in some valves made at Montrose is just zero to plus two millionths of a metre....
...The programme would be capped at 200,000 workers a year, but a “safety valve” would allow employers to eat into the next year's allocation if they can show they need more workers and will pay top wages....
...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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