Listed countries that last year bought British arms and military equipment include: ■ Saudi Arabia, which has been accused of perpetrating war crimes in Yemen.
Other countries with companies selling torture equipment include China, France, Russia, Germany, Britain, Poland, Israel, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan.
The makers of recycling equipment include National Recovery Technologies and MSS Inc., both based in Nashville, and SRC Vision, in Medford, Ore.
The facilities that depend on Nortel's equipment include military bases around the world, law enforcement and antiterrorism agencies, Congress and local and state 911 call centers, Verizon said.
New customers for Chinese equipment include Argentina, which in 2011 signed a deal with the Chinese company Avicopter to build Z-11 light helicopters under license.
Other items of equipment include the starting blocks used by sprinters and hurdlers, hurdles, vaulting poles, and the implements employed in the various throwing events.
Makers of communication equipment include Research in Motion, the producer of BlackBerry phones, which is up more than 8,000 percent, and Alcatel-Lucent, which is down almost 90percentt.
Advances in high-capacity baking equipment include a chamber oven with a conveyor that carries pan assemblies (called straps) along a roughly spiral path through an insulated baking chamber.
