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CirTran Completes 'Incredible Q1' by Earning ISO 9001:2000 Certification for its 40K Sq. Foot Facility, Largest Non-Captive in the Intermountain Region.


SALT LAKE CITY -- CirTran Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB

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CIRT Critical Incident Response Team
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), an international full-service contract manufacturer of IT, consumer and consumer electronics products, announced today that its modern 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility - the largest non-captive in the Utah-Nevada Intermountain in·ter·moun·tain  
adj.
Located between mountains or mountain systems, especially lying between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada or Cascade Range in the western United States.
 Region - has earned the prestigious ISO (1) See ISO speed.

(2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI.
 9001:2000 certification.

"Being ISO 9001:2000 certified means CirTran's Quality Management System is world-class and has met the exacting standards set by the International Organization for Standardization International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Organization for determining standards in most technical and nontechnical fields. Founded in Geneva in 1947, its membership includes more than 100 countries.
 (ISO)," said Iehab Hawatmeh, the company's founder and president.

"While everyone at CirTran is very proud that we are ISO 9001:2000 compliant," he said, "what is most important here is how we can now be viewed by our customers. It tells them that CirTran is committed to quality, focused on their needs, ensures that we have adequate resources and a trained and capable staff, and that our entire process - from procurement to shipping - is top of the line."

Patrick L. Gerrard Sr., director of Quality Systems for CirTran, praised Mr. Hawatmeh and Shaher Hawatmeh, the company's COO, "for their focus and leadership in gaining the certification.

"For more than two years CirTran has rededicated itself to providing only the highest quality and service to our customers," he said. "As fourth and fifth generations of Kiazen (continuous improvement) projects grounded in LEAN and Six Sigma Not to be confused with Sigma 6.
Six Sigma is a set of practices originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects.[1] A defect is defined as nonconformity of a product or service to its specifications.
 methodologies continue and mature, it is our goal that the quality achieved by CirTran will be unsurpassed."

'Incredible First Quarter'

The ISO 9001:2000 certification is part of what Mr. Hawatmeh called "a truly incredible fist quarter" for CirTran, including

- Winning more than $30 million contracts for work in Utah from major companies, including Lockheed Martin For the former company, see .

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 Corporation (NYSE NYSE

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: FLEX), Nortel(TM) (NYSE: NT) and Linux Networx(TM), and for CirTran-Asia, including exclusive contracts to manufacture sold-on-TV consumer electronics products, and

- Successfully negotiating a settlement with the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws.  and a subsequent conversion of $2.5 million debt-to-equity, significantly impacting the overall financial strength of the company's assets and net equity,

"Now, with the largest manufacturing facility in the Intermountain Region ISO 9001:2000-certified, we look for even bigger and better things ahead," Mr. Hawatmeh said.

About CirTran Corporation

Founded in 1993, CirTran Corporation (OTCBB:CIRT), (www.CirTran.com) is a premier international full-service contract manufacturer of low to mid size volume contracts for printed circuit board assemblies, cables and harnesses to the most exacting specifications. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, CirTran's modern 40,000-square foot non-captive manufacturing facility - the largest in the Intermountain Region - provides "just-in-time" inventory management techniques designed to minimize an OEM's investment in component inventories, personnel and related facilities, while reducing costs and ensuring speedy time-to-market.

About CirTran-Asia

CirTran-Asia (www.CirTran-Asia.com) was formed in 2004 as a high-volume manufacturing arm and wholly-owned subsidiary of CirTran Corporation with its principal office in ShenZhen, China. CirTran-Asia operates in three primary business segments: high-volume electronics, fitness equipment and household products manufacturing, focusing on being a leading manufacturer for the multi-billion dollar Direct Response Industry, which sells through infomercials, print and internet advertisements.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. With the exception of historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release involve risk and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

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