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Enthone Inc. (West Haven, CT) has appointed Aaron Storms as managing director of Enthone Latin America. Storms' primary focus will be on developing Enthone's Central and South American businesses, with a special emphasis on the Brazilian market. He will also be responsible for the management of Enthone's Mexico business operations and will be based at the comany's Mexico City facility.
Storms joins Enthone from Crompton Corp., a global specialty chemical company, where he held the dual role of general manager of Mexico and human rescources director for Latin America. Storms previously spent 23 years with Hewlett-Packard, specializing in finance, quality assurance, customer service and human resources.
Enthone, a business of Cookson Electronics, is a supplier of high performance specialty chemicals and coatings used in the electronics and surface finishing industries. Enthone manufactures, markets and distributes its functional, decorative and electronic processes that are used in printed wiring board, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, jewelry, and hardware and plumbing applications.
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Production Solutions Inc. (Poway, CA), a provider of substrate support tooling systems, has appointed of Protec Sales as a manufacturer's representative serving Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Protec Sales, founded in 2003 by Greg Buffaloe, focuses on technical sales and application engineering for its customer base. It is this capability that allows Protec to create and maintain long-term relationships with its large and diverse client base.
Production Solutions manufactures and distributes the Red-E-Set support system for printed circuit board screen printers, dispensing systems and surface-mount pick-and-place equipment.
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Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL, Northbrook, IL) and CSA International (Toronto, Ontario, Canda) announced the further expansion of a 1996 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) allowing the free exchange and acceptance of data between the two product testing organizations.
The companies also implemented the second phase of a three-phase, 18-month pilot agreement allowing the mutual acceptance of certain components used in low voltage distribution equipment and industrial control equipment. As part of the second round of negotiations, both parties agreed that a total of at least four follow-up inspections of manufacturers' facilities are necessary for acceptance of components under this agreement.
The agreements, designed to assist manufacturers in getting their products to the Canadian and U.S. markets more quickly, are the result of several months of negotiation between the companies, with support from National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), Electro-Federation Canada (EFC) and major electrical manufacturers.
Based upon a request from NEMA, UL and CSA International have expanded the scope of the MoU to include transfer type switches. Work is also under way to expand the MoU to include the acceptance of high-current capacity short-circuit follow-up test (re-testing) reports conducted on circuit breakers and series-rated circuit breakers. The target date for the completion of this work is Aug. 30, 2004.
Phase two of the components agreement now includes the end products and components from phase one, which have been certified in accordance with Canadian requirements. Phase two also includes the addition of transfer switches and power conversion equipment certified in accordance with Canadian and U.S. requirements.
A complete listing of components and end products covered by the agreements is available on the company Web sites.
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent, not-for-profit product safety certification organization that has been testing products for more than 110 years. CSA International is a provider of product testing and certification services for electrical, mechanical, plumbing, gas and a variety of other products.
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