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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