[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 21 (Wednesday, January 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 3463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1802]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Auto Body Consortium: Near Zero Stamping Joint
Venture
Notice is hereby given that, on September 14, 1995, pursuant to
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Auto Body Consortium has
filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the
parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the partnership. The
notifications were filed for the purpose of limiting recovery of
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
Pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are:
Allen-Bradley Company, Troy, MI; APX International, Inc., Madison
Heights, MI; ASC Inc., Southgate, MI; Atlas Technologies, Inc., Fenton,
MI; Auto Body Consortium, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI; Autodesk, Inc., Novi,
MI; Autodie International, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI; Bethlehem Steel
Corp., Southfield, MI; The Budd Company, Auburn Hills, MI; Chrysler
Corporation, Auburn Hills, MI; Deneb Robotics, Inc., Auburn Hills, MI;
Detroit Center Tool, Detroit, MI; Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI;
General Motors Corporation, Flint, MI; Helm Instrument Co., Inc.,
Maumee, OH; HMS Products Co., Troy, MI; ISI Automation Product Group,
Mt. Clemens, MI; ISI Robotics, Fraser, MI; Lamb Technicon, Warren, MI;
Lobdell-Emery, Alma, MI; Modern Engineering, Troy, MI; Perceptron,
Inc., Farmington Hills, MI; Sekely Industires, Inc., Salem, OH;
Signature Technologies, Inc., Carrollton, TX; Tecnomatix Technologies,
Inc., Novi, MI; Tower Automotive, Farmington Hills, MI; Verson,
Chicago, IL; and The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
The purpose of this joint venture is to develop and demonstrate a
new generation of sheet metal stamping technologies to achieve
precision and agility in sheet metal stamping by improving the standard
of accuracy in stamped sheet metal parts from present industry
standards of a few millimeters to submillimeter tolerances and reducing
the time currently required for sheet metal die design, try-out and
production by 30 percent. The activities of the joint venture project
will be partially funded by an award from the Advanced Technology
Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-1802 Filed 1-30-96; 8:45 am]
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