[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 165 (Monday, August 27, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 49017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-4166]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--the Nanoparticle Flow Processing Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 16, 2007, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Nanoparticle Flow Processing 
Consortium 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: 3M Company, St. Paul, MN; The Proctor & Gamble 
Company, Cincinnati, OH; Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY; BASF 
Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Imperial Chemical 
Industries PLC, London, United Kingdom. The general area of 
Nanoparticle Flow Processing Consortium's planned activity is to: (1) 
Develop, test, and validate computer-simulation technologies of near-
term application that can improve the quality and reduce the cost of 
nanoparticle suspension/dispersion manufacture (including suspension 
stability and processibility); (2) transfer the technology developed 
under the Research and Development Program in a manner that offers the 
Consortium members opportunities for commercial advantage; and (3) 
develop methodologies and aptitude for modeling and simulation of 
multiscale phenomena intrinsic to the stability and dynamics of dense, 
nanoparticle suspensions. This development will be synergistic and 
applicable to many U.S. Department of Energy campaigns for simulation 
(viz. C6, ASC, and other science and technology initiatives like those 
underpinning MESA).

J. Robert Kramer II,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 07-4166 Filed 8-24-07; 8:45 am]
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