After a 25-year career at Pechiney, a big French aluminium manufacturer, Mr Varin had been hired in 2003 to sort out Corus, a troubled Anglo-Dutch steelmaker.

• 结束在一家法语大型铝业生产公司，普基，25年的职业生涯之后，2003年瓦兰受雇并救助一家饱受苦难的英荷钢铁冶金集团康力斯。