Czech firms become players in the global economy.(Cover Story)(Industry Overview)

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Buoy by the agency of solid engineering and a thrifty conduct Czech metalworking
companies are poised to become competitors in the world's marketplace

The Czech Republic is rapidly becoming a player among the world's
industrial economies. The recuperation from more than 40 years of stultifying
socialist planning is moving rapidly.

At the minimum, the nation is becoming the forge and foundry of Western
Europe and to a certain quantity of extent, even for the United States and Japan.
At ZDAS, a large metalworking and machinery firm, more than 50% of
its sizable casting production is exported to