21.   It is merging the AEG rail systems operation with those of the Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.

22.   Last month it acquired the domestic steel activities of the Swiss engineering group Von Roll AG.

23.   Luoding Heavy Engineering is the largest engineering group in the city of Luoding, Guandong Province in China.

24.   Norwegian engineering group Kvaerner ASA said Monday it is final negotiations with the U.S. Navy to build a huge offshore air base in collaboration with Boeing Co.

25.   Severine Gagneraud, a spokeswoman for the Anglo-French engineering group Alstom, said the symbolic first steel sheet was cut on Wednesday.

26.   Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB said Wednesday that its chairman, Percy Barnevik, had resigned.

27.   The Anglo-Norwegian engineering group Kvaerner was saved from bankruptcy Wednesday after late-night negotiations resulted in a merger plan with Aker Maritime.

28.   The British engineering group Vickers PLC said Sunday it has sold its engine-making subsidiary Cosworth to German automaker Audi.

29.   The European Commission gave the green light Friday for Frankfurt-based trading, metals and engineering group MG to takeover the German chemical company Klockner Chemiehandel.

30.   The troubled trading, metals and engineering group also confirmed plans to sue for damages two executives that it blames for big losses on oil futures contracts.