Masaaki Tamenaga's metalworking factory consists of five relatives-father, mother, older brother, younger brother and younger brother's wife.

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"We've almost been negotiating each of our roles, " says Lorenzo Tellera, a 25-year Polar veteran who heads the packaging and metalworking division.

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Making projects is not only technology, of course, and often involves traditional DIY disciplines like arts and crafts, woodworking and metalworking, too.

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Unglamorous industries such as construction and metalworking also face growing staff shortages.

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Signal says the men who were canned did not have sufficient metalworking skills to satisfy the terms of their employment, or their visas.

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He was president of a state-registered trade union, the unlikely sounding Union of Nomadic Metalworking Gypsies, but this may have arisen simply because his clanspeople were metalworkers.

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The study found several occupational sectors in which there appeared to be an elevated breast cancer risk, including manufacture of plastics for use in the automobile industry, farming and metalworking.

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But as a philosophical statement and approach to business, I was pleasantly enlightened by my conversation with Pamela Bellesen who sells a successful wholesale jewelry line from her metalworking studio called Wide Mouth Frog Designs.

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Some of the industries within manufacturing that have shown the strongest growth over the last 12 months have included machine shops, manufacturers of metalworking machinery, plastics product manufacturing and manufacturers of electrical equipment and components, Sageworks data shows.

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