She said JW Kane was one of Northern Ireland's "foremost aerospace-focused precision engineering companies".
Immigrants founded a quarter of successful high-tech and engineering companies between 1995 and 2005.
That suggests a buoyant sector with engineering companies like Bombardier, Wrightbus and FG Wilson all doing well.
The foreign construction and engineering companies pouring into Warsaw are sceptical it will all happen on time.
Also in 2007, Dockwise acquired two design and engineering companies and was listed on the Oslo Stock exchange.
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Engineering companies like Siemens, transport firms like Deutsche Bahn, and machine tool firms could all be in Russia's sights.
The chemicals industry saw exports rise by nearly 11% but engineering companies had a 0.8% dip in overseas sales.
For technology and engineering companies, remaining innovative is key to their survival.
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According to the Kauffman Foundation, 25.3% of technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005, at least one key founder was foreign-born.
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Geographically, engineering companies in Scotland and the south of England will fare worst this year, with northern English firms supported by demand for metal products, the federation said.
Engineering companies like Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ), transport firms like Deutsche Bahn, and machine tool firms could all be in Russia's sights.
British industry is littered with hte ruins of engineering companies where they let the accountants and lawyers take over: excluding the actual engineers from senior management in many cases.
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Geoff Ford, chairman of two South Shields engineering companies, Ford Aerospace and Ford Component, praised the council for the plans, which he said needed to be "imaginative and bold".
As I wrote in June, according to the Kauffman Foundation, 25.3% of technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005, at least one key founder was foreign-born.
At a time when most Asian investors were focusing on high-growth markets close to home, he was nurturing contacts and making introductions between Chinese construction and engineering companies and Gulf contractors and officials.
Mr Leutwiler chose to become chairman of Brown Boveri, an ailing Swiss manufacturing company, and guided through its merger with Asea of Sweden to become Asea Brown Boveri, one of the world's leading engineering companies.
Today, operating through various foundations and front companies, the family is also believed to control one of Iran's biggest oil engineering companies, a plant assembling Daewoo automobiles, and Iran's best private airline (though the Rafsanjanis insist they do not own these assets).
We must also eliminate barriers for those students who work hard to acquire STEM skills but lack the funds to attend four-year colleges by providing scholarship programs and support through organizations like NACME ( National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Industry groups like the American Council of Engineering Companies.
Principal Lee Kilgour said students would also spend time working within engineering or science companies.
In December, the government extended a cheap loans program for exporters by an year and also added engineering-goods companies to the list of beneficiaries under the program.
Researchers at the Kauffman Foundation released a study late last year showing that from 2006 to 2012, one in four engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. had at least one foreign-born founder in Silicon Valley it was almost half of new companies.
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It has encouraged domestic companies to beef up their engineering expertise and is offering tax breaks to companies to develop their own products.
Second, German strengths in industries such as biotechnology and advanced engineering are spawning interesting companies.
Ejabat was probably the perfect CEO for Ascend when its customers were primarily engineering managers at Internet companies.
Take the reauthorization of the 2005 law on highway and transit spending, which stirred up interest in publicly held heavy equipment, engineering and construction materials companies.
Sastri's talented multitudes reside on the servers of HelloBrain.com, an "intellectual capital exchange" in Santa Clara, California, where high-tech companies post engineering projects and freelance engineers around the world bid on the work.
In the late '80s and '90s, nobody went into petroleum engineering, so now companies must rely on a cadre of aging graybeards plus an influx of newbies who can't come onstream fast enough.
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These include carmakers, technology companies and engineering firms.
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