[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 57 (Friday, March 25, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 15352]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-5891]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Glass Manufacturing Industry Council--The Next 
Generation Melter Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 10, 2005, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Glass Manufacturing 
Industry Council--The Next Generation Melter Consortium (``GMIC'') has 
filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General 
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the 
parties to the venture and (2) the nature and objectives of the 
venture. 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 
to the venture are: Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY; Owens Corning 
Corporation, Granville, OH; PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; 
SCHOTT North America, Inc., Duryea, PA; Johns Manville Corporation, 
Littleton, Co; Gas Technology Institute, Des Plains, IL; and Glass 
Manufacturing Industry Council, Westerville, OH. The general area of 
GMIC's planned activity is to develop and demonstrate a next generation 
glass melter using a submerged burner, called steel wall glass melter 
(NGMS).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-5891 Filed 3-24-05; 8:45 am]
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