[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 41 (Thursday, February 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 7806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4658]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Trico Steel Company, L.L.C.: Construction and 
Operation of a Flat Rolled Steel Minimill

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 18, 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''), the parties to a cooperative 
production venture relating to the construction and operation of a flat 
rolled steel minimill have 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 project. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking 
the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to 
actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) 
of the Act, the identities of the parties are: LTV-Trico, Inc., 
Cleveland, OH (controlled by the LTV Corporation, Cleveland, OH); SMI-
Trico, Inc., Wilmington, DE (controlled by Sumitomo Metal Industries, 
Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN); and British Steel Trico Holdings, Inc., 
Wilmington, DE (controlled by British Steel plc., London, ENGLAND). The 
nature and objectives of the venture are to design, finance, construct 
and operate in Decatur, Alabama a flat rolled steel minimill with the 
capacity to produce approximately 2.2 million tons annually of hot-
rolled steel coils. The joint venture products will be sold to a 
separate entity owned by the LTV Corporation and will be sold by that 
entity to steel service centers and tubular converters, as well as to 
the automotive, construction and general manufacturing industries. The 
joint venture will utilize state of the art technology to produce hot-
rolled, light gauge products that will compete against hot-rolled steel 
sheet and strip, tin and plate products and certain cold-rolled sheet 
products. Major components of the plant will include electric furnaces, 
thin slab casters and a hot-strip rolling mill.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-4658 Filed 2-28-96; 8:45 am]
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