51.   Tchuruk also said that his company was continuing to study a plan for Gec-Alsthom to merge with Framatome, a French nuclear power and engineering group.

52.   The Dutch engineering group Stork has joined Samsung and Bombardier in showing interest in the failed Fokker aircraft group, Fokker said on Monday.

53.   The German engineering group Hoesch-Krupp went back into profit in the first six months of this year, the company announced Wednesday.

54.   The Norwegian engineering group Kvaerner received the provisional go-ahead to slice the steel hull of the rig into sections which would then be used to house a fish farm.

55.   The president of the French engineering group Schneider has tried to buy his way out of fraud charges in Belgium, officials said on Wednesday.