Germany, which supplied China with the high-precision machine tools needed to support its growth, saw its exports boom.

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Two years ago, Adrian Allen, group sales director of Technicut, which makes precision-cutting machine tools, decided to try to sell some machines to Boeing.

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Sales of high-precision five-axis machine tools are declining.

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As marketing manager of Makino, I drive our marketing programs to exhibit the same precision and high performance that our machine-tool centers deliver to our customers.

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Much of the precision machinery, computer-controlled machines that can machine anything you want, are already there.

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