[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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