[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 86 (Thursday, May 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 19638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-10854]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993, Joint Research and Development Program for the 
Production of Resistor Packs, Dow Chemical Company/VisPro Corporation

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 29, 1996, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), The Dow Chemical Company 
filed notification simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties 
and (2) the nature and objective of a Joint Research and Development 
Program in the area of computer hard drive, disk drive, substrates. The 
notification was 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 The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI and 
VisPro Corporation, Beavertown, OR. The nature and objectives of the 
venture are to engage in research and development on a process for the 
efficient manufacture of deslaged substrates of an aluminum-boron-
carbon composite for deposit of magnetic recording medium; with the 
substrates being used for computer, hard disk drives having greater 
memory capacities and improved performance.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-10854 Filed 5-1-96; 8:45 am]
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