31.  Already, Mannesmann, the German machinery and engineering company, has developed a competing mobile-phone system.

32.  British manufacturers and engineering companies, for example, do much of their business on the European continent, so they see little threat to their business.

33.  But we have been putting some money into some of the British engineering companies that have been beaten up, like Spirax.

34.  By selling half of itself to BBA Group, a U.K. engineering company, Holvis gave International paper the slip.

35.  Chief Executive Heinrich von Pierer said the profit forecast for the diversified electronics and engineering company was unchanged in the current fiscal year, amid declining semiconductor earnings.

36.  Chrysler is now making mini-vans at an Austrian factory run through a joint venture with an engineering company, Steyr-Daimler-Puch.

37.  Communications issues got a boost after Nippon Comsys Corp., an engineering company that subcontracts for NTT, reported strong earnings yesterday.

38.  Competitors include General Electric Co. of the U.S. and Asea Brown Boveri, the Swiss-Swedish engineering company.

39.  Companies such as Siemens AG, an electronics and engineering company, attacked the same problem by shipping an increasing share of operations to countries where wages were lower.

40.  Cookson, a specialist engineering company, said Haverhill, Massachusetts-based Camelot will give it greater access to the semiconductor and medical electronics markets.