Untitled - David Kronemyer

increase of I per cent.
THORN EMI Gchnology also has continuing
activities in semiconductors and flow measurement.
INMOS has manufactured all its semiconductor
products in Newport" South Wales, for over a year
and all technology development has now fiansfer
red there fiom the US. Due to growing worldwide
interest, transputer products now account {or half
total revenues and significandy aided last year's
overall 35 per cent reyenue grou,lh' Its US
marketing cenhe has been relocated following the
recent sale of the Colorado Springs facility.
THORN EMI Flow Measurement had an excellent
year, supplying record volumes of gas meters to
British Gas. Demand outlook is buoyant. The
Poll.mer Components activity also performed well,
increasing its output of synthetic meter diaphragns.
An agreement to sell THORN EMI's 5I per cent
interest in the UK telecommunications company'
Thom Ericsson, to its partner in the joint
venture, Ericsson of Sweden, was announced on
9 June 1988.
Hong
Kong to Beijing to sell THORN Secuity\ fwe
proltfii.bn systems and serurily equipmcnl Lo rhc
People's Republic of Chirn - potentiolly the world's
largest market. Alfred. is 31, recently mnnicd. and
speal* both Mand.ain anl, Contonese, as weII as
the Chnnzhou d,ial.ect of the coastal region. ulhke a
recent project like the nan Xinhua Neus Agen'q,
hzad. ofi.ce,'Alfteil says.'It's importurt to talk
tedmical.ities in th,e atstomcr's lnnguage. We
alread,y haae af,ne reputation in Chirut,'he adds.
'Our auxessful tedmologt-transfer otrangemnnt for
the proifu.ction offire detection equipm.ent in
Beijing olso hclps.'Alfed hos the tort,
persuasiveness and, Jlexibility e ssential for
tronsaainns in China- But euen h.e gets the odd.
surprise. Like being obliged to ilrinh a near-lethal
mia of beer, white uine m.d Mqa Thi - afi.ery spirit
- before closing a recent deal.'I still ltrvw exa.ctly
whnre to sign,' he says,proudly.