metal industry competitiveness

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METALLURGY AND MECHANICS IN LORRAINE, mainstays and cutting edge sectors of French industry. Whereas iron and coal mines will have disappeared from the region's landscape by 2005, the development of new industries, which are the direct heirs of this high-prestige past, show the way in which the Lorraine steel industry has been redeployed. Amongst other factors, this is due to the importance/size of foreign operations, which make it one of the leading French regions when it comes to the number of jobs being created in this way. Driven on by giants such as Sollac Lorraine (Arcelor), Saint-Gobain PAM, Unimétal, ISPAT, CORUS, this momentum has led to considerable diversification and the development of sectors specialising in the processing of metals (smelting, forging and stamping, boiler-making, cutting and drawing) with leaders such as Bronzes d'Industrie, Viessmann, Trane, Nordon, Munch, Sofreb, Ferembal, etc. and mechanical construction (roofing, aerolics, agriculture, special machines, machining, precision assembly work, pumps) represented by EXMA, ArcelorTubes, Eiffel, Viry, Sécométal, Class, Gouvy, Grundfos, ThyssenKrupp, Realmeca, CMV, etc.