Economics

German Industry Is Being Battered by a Perfect Storm

  • Squeeze on small suppliers risks hampering development efforts
  • Rubber maker ditches auto industry for buses, push into lasers
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Deep in Europe’s manufacturing core, a German company is taking radical steps to cope with a perfect storm that has sent traditional economic pillars into a tailspin and put the country on the verge of recession.