"They reflect car lights so crossings are more visible at night and when it's raining or foggy," said Stephan Meyer, who heads the road markings department at the city's depart of civil engineering. The city is planning to mix Swarovski glass beads into the surfacing. Crossings are now being repainted a different yellow, and next spring they will be resurfaced. In Bern, Switzerland, where four people have died in recent weeks as they crossed in pedestrian crossings, there has been an outcry to improve the safety of crossings – something the city had already started planning for this past summer. Today, the group known as Swarco AG has more than 80 companies in 20 countries and employs 2,600 people. Swarovski GmbH in Amstetten, Austria, to make the beads. For more than 40 years, it has made micro glass beads for street markings.
BERN - The world-renowned Austrian firm Swarovski doesn't only produce jewelry and small crystal figures.
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