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...some 500 new factories have gone up in Ireland. About 350 are foreign-owned, and the roster includes IBM, General Electric and Olin from the U.S., Plessey from Britain, Switzerland's Oerlikon, South Africa's De Beers, The Netherlands' Verolme United Shipyards and Germany's Liebherr. The Irish Industrial Development Authority, under Michael Killeen, 43, a former head of the Irish Export Board, will spend about $70 million this year to help attract and finance still more new industry and modernize existing plants...
...numbers. More than 450 of them are at work-on buildings from Eero Saarinen's 38-story CBS skyscraper in Manhattan to Los Angeles' new Gateway East building. The chief beneficiaries are the two main manufacturers, Sweden's A. B. Lindenkranar and West Germany's Liebherr. The cranes range in price from $35,000 to $60,000, depending on lifting capacity, v. about $90,000 for the crawler crane...
Lindenkranar, which has plants in Sweden and licensees in England and Finland, manufactures 500 cranes a year, exports them to 17 countries and has annual sales of $5,000,000. Bigger Liebherr, with crane sales of $20 million, turns out 2,000 cranes annually, has plants in Austria, France, Ireland and South Africa in addition to seven in Germany. Both companies expect business to rise handsomely as builders around the world discover the benefits of tower cranes. "The sky's the limit," says Lindenkranar President Elis Linden, discussing the height at which his products can work-but also describing...
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