Its French maker hopes to have it on the American market in 2000.

Tereos is a French maker of sugar, starch and bioethanol.

Motobecane was the first French maker to start using Japanese parts, in the late '70s.

A couple of paperweights, by a French maker called Baccarat.

He volunteered to wrap up a pending deal with a French maker of chemical laboratory equipment.

These may have included additional members of the Hotteterre family, as well as other French makers active around the same time.

He made fortepianos after public taste started to favour them, and was an important early French maker of the instrument.

"Few of the past French makers surpassed him in refinement."

Dane-Elec is a French maker of computer memory chips and storage products.

Whether the French makers ever used the name "Flutina" is not known.