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...The month before he shipped welding electrodes, insulation silicone and generators to his base in CAR....
...However, Air Liquide’s US subsidiary Airgas asked the court to ban Carlyle from “engaging in competition, or assisting any other party to compete” with its business, which supplies gases and welding equipment...
...In manufacturing, nearly 60 per cent of tasks in jobs such as welding and maintaining equipment are at risk. Higher-paying jobs are not immune from the disruption....
...Barry Loneragan (employee 102) joined as a team leader in 1985 and retired as technical services manager eight years ago....
...Tesla said on Friday that it was recommending that 90,000 Model S owners take their vehicles to a service centre to have their seat belts checked....
...The company has expanded its products and services that are accessible to the layperson and has moved into areas such as 3D printing....
...A visit to Ford’s bodyshop complex in Dearborn, Michigan, shows how much of a gamble the company has taken: it has had to replace its arc welding equipment with machines to screw, rivet, glue and laser-weld...
...“Lightweighting is critical to ensuring fuel efficiency,” says Anil Valsan, lead automotive analyst at EY, the professional services firm....
...The high wages on offer in oil jobs – about $100,000 per year for unskilled workers – make it hard for the local service industry to keep staff....
...The Pentagon task force has reached an agreement with several industry licensing agencies to help service members with experience in the engineering, logistics, machining sectors and the welding field to...
...James Phelan, general manager at PWA International’s Dublin manufacturing plant, walks the factory floor, stopping from time to time to talk to one of the operators cutting or welding the huge silver coloured...
...Inmarsat shares have dropped more than 40 per cent in a year as shipping customers traded down to cheaper services and governments cut defence spending....
...Simply welding social behaviour on to an existing web service – as Apple has proved by trying to attach its Ping music network to iTunes – does not work unless users see some compelling benefits....
...Harris reps, who sell a lot of welding equipment, can now see full details of contacts and previous dealings with customers in one place, instead of having to look in various files and databases....
...These include a welding torch and domestic boiler and cooker....
...Kraft talks of “substantial progress on bringing our sales, customer service and back office teams together” this year, but will not elaborate....
...Vague takeover rumours also lifted Charter International, the welding and gas handling group, by 2.6 per cent to 610p....
...It’s logistics, it’s the duties, it’s the closeness to the customer end-market that you can’t service remotely.”...
...Disproving the predictions of many economists, manufacturing has been far worse hit by recession than services....
...It charges an average of $17,000 a student for its courses, which include automotive and motorcycle repair, professional massage therapy and welding, most of which are paid for by government grants and loans...
...When the first line – from Tokyo to Osaka – opened in 1964, its 200km/h trains offered the world’s fastest passenger services....
...service) $85.60 Rosie Blau is the FT’s books editor...
...In recent weeks, the Financial Services Authority in the UK stated that it would not tolerate market abuses after rumours of liquidity problems at HBOS’s hit the British bank’s stock price....
...“Typically there is still a manufactured product at the centre of the business, but often there will be more people working on service support, technical information, and other services that add value....
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