Employment opportunities in engineering continue to be negatively affected by globalization and the ongoing restructuring of assets by both Swedish- and foreign-owned manufacturing and industrial companies. Many companies continue to reduce or close operations, and increasing numbers are moving their operations or outsourcing production to countries with cheaper sources of labor or less governmental red tape. Yet evolving from this dim economic picture is a handful of companies that already have rationalized their operations and are beginning to experience a return to profitability. Many of these companies have done so by expanding beyond the confines of traditional European and US markets to the Asia-Pacific and India as sales closer to home have dwindled.

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