like brandauer, in birmingham.tech materials, it makes the switches for 90% of all the kettles in the world — billions of them. its order books for household goods, the car sector and aerospace are bulging. we've always exported a huge percentage of what we make. currently, that's around 70—75%. global growth of our customers and the manufacturing supply chain means growth for us. our customers are doing well, and technology demands are ever—increasing, which means brandauer, as a net result, will do well. it has been a ten year roller—coaster for britain's makers. manufacturing suffered badly in the financial crisis, and has only slowly recovered since then. but, in the last year, things have taken a turn for the better, and output is now at its highest since april 2008. behind these betterfigures is a big economic trend, global growth. for the first time since the financial crisis, ten years ago, all the economic centres, usa, china, japan and the rest of europe, are seeing stronger growth. and that rising tide i