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ATLANTA – Beginning Oct. 14, Circuits Assembly seeks participants for its annual Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for EMS providers and electronics assembly equipment, material and software suppliers.

Now in its 17th year, the SEAs honor companies in electronics manufacturing for excelling in the critical area of customer service, allowing participants to benchmark customer service against their peers.

SALT LAKE CITY -- CirTran Corp. reported second-quarter rose 47% to $4.2 million from 2007, while losses from operations improved 19% to $991,052.

For the period ended June 30, the contract assembler, which also manufactures and distributes beverage and certain OEM products, saw beverage sales increase three-fold sequentially to nearly $250,000.

GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN – FlexLink today reported second-quarter sales of $58 million, up 18% year-over-year.

The company took in $68 million in orders for the quarter, up 28%, setting a company record.

VANCOUVER, BC – Northstar Electronics said second-quarter revenues rose 32% to $562,031, but losses widened 60% to $321,114.

The company, which builds electronics products and performs refurbishment work for marine and defense OEMs such as Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, cited cost anomalies that should reduce to normal levels once repeat part production commences

LONDON – The SMART Group today announced a packed program of events for the remainder of the year, including a series of seminars with technology experts during the EKTN event, Technology Breakthroughs – Bending the Design Rules. Most events will be held in the UK or Ireland, except as noted.

Sept. 10:Solving Counterfeit Components – The Problem, Identification & Testing

Sept. 18: New Environmental Regulations – Beyond Reach?

Sept. 25^: Environmental Directives Update Seminar

Sept. 28: Step-by-Step Temperature Profiling

Oct. 7: Conformal Coating Workshop – Hands-On

Oct. 8: Back to Basics Part 1 – PCB Manufacture

Oct. 13: The A to Z of Soldering (South Africa)

Oct. 14: The A-Z of Soldering (South Africa)

Oct. 15: The A to Z of Soldering (South Africa)

Oct. 30: PCB Design for Manufacture & Assembly

Nov. 6: Profit from RFID in your Business

Nov. 17-18: Technology Breakthroughs – Bending the Design Rules

Nov. 26: Hands-On Wave Soldering Workshop

Dec. 2: Monitoring & Controlling Your SMT Process

Dec. 4: Logistics in Electronics Workshop

Jan. 22: Materials Reliability Workshop

Feb. 3: Lead-Free Rework & Repair Workshop

Feb. 12: Back to Basics Part 2 – PCB Assembly

For information contact Tony Gordon at info@smartgroup.org or visit smartgroup.org.

HIALEAH, FL -- Electronics manufacturing services provider Simclar Inc. will delay filing its quarterly 10-Q report for the quarter ended June 30, due to potentially significant problems arising as a result of the implementation of a new ERP software system within its Mexico subsidiary.

In a press release, the company said it is investigating but "confident that the problems are confined to the second quarter" and do not materially affect results for any previous period.

NEW YORK -- The American Electronics Association spent $256,000 in the second quarter to lobby on tax issues, customs and tariffs, and trade measures, according to a mandatory disclosure form filed July 17.

COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND -- Qualmark Corp.. a provider of HALT/HASS chambers, will install a Typhoon HALT chamber at DfR Solutions under a recent agreement, the companies announced today.

WEST BERLIN, NJ -- Dynasil Corp. reported third-quarter revenues of $2.7 million, up 3.5% year-over-year.

Net income was $53,002, down 46% from last year. On July 1, Dynasil acquired the stock of Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. (RMD Instruments LLC) for $20 million. RMD's revenues for the 12 months ended June 30 were approximately $22.5 million with pretax profits of $3 million.

SAN JOSE – Doug Rasor, vice president of emerging medical applications at Texas Instruments, will keynote the MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council’s Medical Electronics Symposium in September.

Rasor will discuss the coming convergence of technology and healthcare and share some truly inspiring examples of this trend in action.

Rasor’s presentation will take place Sept. 25 at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, MEPTEC said.
The program also includes sessions on revolutionary concepts in medical electronics, advanced materials, key enabling technologies and next-generation bio-medical systems

For information, visit www.meptec.org.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — Linda Woody of Lockheed-Martin will keynote the High-Performance Electronics Cleaning Symposium.

The IPC- and SMTA-sponsored event takes place Oct. 28-29, in Rosemont, IL.

Woody, a 30-year veteran in electronics assembly and electro-optical design, is a member of Lockheed's Missiles and Fire Control Technical Excellence Staff. She will speak on nozzle design and implementation for cleaning flux residues from high-density, low-profile component assemblies.

MANKATO, MN – Winland Electronics reported second-quarter net sales fell 15% from last year to $6.9 million amid lower demand from two of its three largest customers. For the period ended June 30, the net loss was $800,000, versus a net loss of $500,000 in 2007.