ROME, NY - The ESD Association requests abstracts for technical papers covering the effects of electrostatic discharge (ESD), electrical overstress (EOS) and static electricity for presentation at its 29th Annual EOS/ESD Symposium.
 
The symposium takes place Sept. 16-21 in Anaheim, CA.
 
Submissions must include a 50-word abstract and a maximum four-page summary. The deadline for abstracts is Jan. 12. The final submission deadline for the finished paper (max. 10 pages) is June 8.
 
Contact the ESD Association at 315-339-6937; info@esda.org; www.esda.org.

SALT LAKE CITY -- CirTran Corp., a full-service EMS firm, has closed and received bankruptcy court approval to purchase almost all assets of Advanced Beauty Solutions for a total of $2.31 million.

Iehab J. Hawatmeh, CirTran's founder and President, said an

Last week's agreement covers ABS's flat iron and hair dryer product inventory, intellectual property, customer lists, a 30-minute infomercial and trade secrets.

CirTran will pay ABS $1.125 million in cash at closing, and will reduce its approved claim in the bankruptcy against ABS by $750,000. CirTran will pay the balance to ABS as a guaranteed royalty over two years.

ABS had defaulted on a manufacturing agreement with CirTran under which the EMS firm was to build hair dryer kits. Through October 2005, CirTran had shipped about $4.75 million worth of product to ABS, for which it had received payments of $788,000. In November, CirTran repossessed approximately $2.34 million worth of product from ABS and began selling those products directly.

In January, CirTran sued ABS, claiming breach of contract and fraud. At the same time, ABS filed for Chapter 11.

The bankruptcy court last week approved of the sale of ABS's assets to CirTran.

 

EL SEGUNDO, CA — Research firm iSuppli Corp. will host a free Webinar on India automotive electronics market next week. Jagdish Rebello, Ph. D., director and principal analyst for iSuppli, is the featured speaker.

India's automotive electronics market is set to expand 21.8 % over the next five years, predicts iSuppli, but is facing a host of potential roadblocks including weak infrastructure and government beauracracy.

The Webinar will take place on Nov. 1, at 11:30 a.m. EST. Visit: http://www.isuppli.com/events/default.asp?EventCode=WB.

ATLANTA -- Effective March 1, China will require labels on products sold to end-users that contain any substances that can be considered to fall under any of the six RoHS classes. But two problems persist: What the labels will look like, and the particulars of how companies will comply. Of particular concern are the unknowns at play preventing companies from compliance.

“The law didn’t specify what the labeling and disclosure requirements will be – just that there are labeling and disclosure requirements,” explains Michael Kirschner, president of Design Chain Associates, a consulting firm that has been closely tracking the issue. 

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