KYOTO, JAPAN – Europe will play host next week to its first public Jisso European Council Seminar.

The event will provide the latest news from the JISSO meeting in Kyoto in May, as well as details about the new IEC standard development work for PCB with embedded components.

Jisso is a Japanese term for cooperation and refers to a loosely knit organization in Japan 12 years ago for electronics designers and packaging experts.

Aimed at electronics designers and process engineers, the session will offer details on chip design, packaging, PWB and PCB assembly and end-product, to aid understanding of design and manufacturing options.

Details are available at www.eipc.org.

BRUSSELS – European Parliament member and RoHS rapporteur Jill Evans announced plans to drop amendments calling for a ban of all brominated flame retardants, including those such as tetrabromobisphenol-A (TBBPA), that have been found safe under European Union risk assessment.

ROCHESTER, NY – Kodak and specialty films manufacturer MacDermid Autotype will jointly provide polyester-based films in North America and Mexico.

Kodak's polyester film base and MacDermid coated films can be used in touch and vision electronic applications, including printed electronic circuits, sensors, membrane switch circuitry layers, and other applications requiring conductive flexible layers.

No financial terms of the partnership were disclosed.