1.   Companies in the construction and metalworking industries are rising because investors expect private construction to continue and public construction projects to resume, Hernandez said.

2.   Pay deals in the metalworking industry set the standard for German industry.

3.   And a union in the vital metalworking industry warned of potential industrial unrest if the opposition victories were not recognised.

4.   Traders said the incipient strike in the big German metalworking industry did not have much influence on the market.

5.   Traders said that capital continued to flow into German marks, despite the threat of a strike in the big German metalworking industry.

6.   Powerful German union IG Metall staged more warning strikes Thursday in the southern state of Bavaria to keep up pressure for pay rises in the engineering and metalworking industry.

7.   The industrial controls section manufactures computer control products for machine tool equipment manufacturers and refitters in the metalworking industry.