date:Jul 18, 2014
ut 2,000 jobs in its minerals business in the past 18 months, including 400 jobs in the first half of 2014, which Kirk said should enable margins to improve later this year.
The firm was also expanding market share with new testing laboratories at existing mine sites, which were not reliant on new exploration expenditure, he said.
SGS is investing 50 million francs to expand into opportunities from the U.S. shale oil boom, and has about 100-150 people working in the Bakken field and in West Te