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Show July, 1999 ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce Monthly Newsletter Page 7 MfcrficD Sih&ufis, Ins, PC7(:03QS Ccttcvs Ira. By: Jill Shakespeare , 1 SPRINGVILLE-Ariington Scientific, Inc. ASI announced an-nounced last, week the ' completion of its acquisition . of Barrow's Inc. of Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Texas. For 23 years, Barrow's Inc. has designed and manufactured products that improve the safety and ; ease of donating blood. Cur rent products include patientdonor pa-tientdonor lounges, portable donor chairs and a blood scale-agitator. , ASI recently moved from Texas to a beautiful Rocky Mountain plant in Springville, Utah. -The two-; building facility, with just over 20,000 square feet, manufactures both in-vitro diagnostic test kits and blood donor chairs, lounges, blood mixing and weighing devices and accessories products. ASI plans to expand this new equipment line to include phlebotomy chairs and re lated products for the medi cal community. Although ASI's flagship product, RPR Screening Test for Syphilis, is one of the market mar-ket leaders in the United States, ASI's services aren't limited to local consumers. "ASI currently exports about 20 of its manufactured products prod-ucts to Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific Rim. Barrow's proven international interna-tional success will further enhance ASI's export business. busi-ness. For more information about Arlington Scientific, Inc., visit their web site at: www.arimgtmfyiraitifir.com. Eclipse Telecommunications Opens Doors in Utah Chamber president prepares Miss Utah JL ' JL After being crowned Miss Utah last month, Vanessa Ballara is spending her time preparing pre-paring for the Miss America pageant pag-eant this fall. Part of her preparations include in-clude interviewing with a variety vari-ety of individuals from around the state. Steve Densley, p r e s i -dent of theProW 0 r e m Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, threw between 400 and 500 questions ques-tions at Ballam, to help prepare her for the com- tember. Each year Densley interviews several area queens to help prepare them for the interview in-terview segment of their local, state or national pageants. His questions range from, "Who are your favorite people?" to "When A new member of the Prove Orem Chamber of Commerce, Eclipse Telecommunications has only recently opened its doors in Utah. Specializing in the combining of telecommunications services such as data, voice, and Internet over one telecommunications gateway, Eclipse offers an integrated inte-grated approach that helps businesses busi-nesses lower their costs and simplify sim-plify billing by using Eclipse for all their services. While Eclipse Telecommunications Telecommuni-cations is new here in Utah, they arent new to the communications communica-tions industry. Eclipse is a wholly owned subsidiary of IXC Communications Services, Inc. headquartered in Austin, Texas. IXC has been in the industry for nearly 30 years and owns and was the first time you cried?. His favorite question is, "What is the first thing you would do if you could improve the world?" Aside from conducting interviews, inter-views, the Chamber helps prepare pre-pare the local queens for their upcoming competitions by providing pro-viding them with opportunities to share their talent at the annual an-nual award banquets and other events. TheProvo and Orem queens also participate in the grand openings, open houses and ribbon cutting ceremonies cer-emonies for local businesses. busi-nesses. All ofthisaddi- petition During her stay in Utah County, ttonal expo-this expo-this Sen- Miss Utah Vanessa Ballam was in- sure helps terviewed by unamDer rresiaent to Duiia Steve Densley to help prepare her their confi-for confi-for the Miss America competition. - dence and '- ' become ac quainted with a variety of busi-' ness leaders. For more information on the Chamber and the benefits and . services it provides, call 379-2567.'- operates the newest coast to coast fiber optic network in the U.S-A Providing network services ser-vices to major carriers, bell companies com-panies .and government entities, IXC created the Eclipse division to market these same network services to commercial businesses busi-nesses throughout the country. For more information on IXC, visit their Web site at www.ixc-comm.com. www.ixc-comm.com. - Eclipse can offer your business busi-ness services such as private line, fast packet (ATM and frame relay), Internet, and long distance (switched and dedicated). Their network-based delivery solutions solu-tions are designed to address the speed and capacity requirements require-ments of the global communications communica-tions market. To find out more about how your business could benefit from Eclipse&s ser ices, please contact con-tact Darren Mosier at (801) 495-2999. TIPS We wantlha scoop on what s happening in Caljjn News Hps: 225-1340 ' All VOOl Suits Finchley Oscar De La Renta American Trend Jones New York Ernesto Bellini Sport CoatS Stanley Blacker Finchley Oscar De La Renta Featuring... Suits Boss-Germany Redaelli-ltaly Fioravanti-USA Manzoni-ltaly Ties Robert Talbott Ferrell Reed Cole Haan Shoes ft x Or B-36 Univorsity Mall 224-4520 |