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ll ship gearing is produced by five .. producersGeneral Electric, Westinghouse, Falk, Philadelphia Gear, and Cincinnati Gear. In recent years, .. and West German firms have entered into agreements allowing for .. production of marine gearing using design and technological input from West German firms. Gearing for pleasure craft is manufactured principally by three .. firms, OMC Corp., formerly Outboard Marine Corp., Mercury Marine, subsidiary of the Brunswick Corp, and Twin Disc. There are some small job shops participating in the marine market, but their activities are usually restricted to repair operations. Structural Changes The past decade has brought many changes in the .. gear industry. Many gear-consuming industries, such as shipbuilding and agricultural and construction equipment, have experienced significant declines, and others, such as steel, have adopted new manufacturing processes that utilize substantial amounts of imported production 4-1 equipment These factors, combined with increasing imports of finished products containing gears and gear products, and the growing trend for .. gear consumers to establish captive shops, have resulted in major changes in the industry. Like many other .. industries, the domestic gear industry has been affected by number of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs (LBOs), and joint ventures in recent years, following period of divestitures prior to mid-1. According to industry sources, in the early 1s, there were number of divestitures of well known gear companies by large multinational corporations, principally because many of these operations generated low returns on investment during and immediately after the 1-8 recession. Examples of such divestitures include Bu-Erie selling Western Gear, Brad-Foote, and clgtutt'Ssburgh Gear; FMC Corporation selling PT Components; Dresser Industries selling its Foote Jones division; and Westinghouse selling Nuttall Gear. Since mid-1