Solar One wouldn't be there if not for the doggedness of Gilbert Cohen, the French-born engineer who runs the operation on behalf of Spanish conglomerate Acciona Solar Power.

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On the Ferrari pit wall chief track engineer Chris Dyer was overseeing the whole operation.

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Technology upgrades being such a daunting operation - Thai Farmers had to re-engineer 500 branches over three years - they have to pay for themselves and more.

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An ambitious forest engineer who had executed a turnaround at a state-owned coal operation, his biggest challenge was to rid SQM of its inefficient state-owned mentality.

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The UK operation is among those expanding rapidly, as I found out this week when I met the engineer in charge of one of the firm's most important ventures, Graph Search.

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