[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29241-29242]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13157]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Consortium for Battery Innovation

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 28, 2019, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Consortium for Battery Innovation 
(``CBI'') 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: Acumuladores Moura S.A., Belo Jardim, BRAZIL; 
Addenda Corporation, Indianapolis, IN; Advanced Battery Concepts, 
Clare, MI; AFEMS, Brussels, BELGUIM; Affinerie de Pont Sainte Maxence, 
Brenouille, FRANCE; Akkumulatorenfabrik MOLL, Bad Staffelstein, 
GERMANY; Amer-Sil, Kehlen, LUXEMBOURG; ArcActive Limited, Christchurch, 
NEW ZEALAND; As Batteriretur, Borgenhaugen, NORWAY; Atomized Products 
Group, Inc., Chesapeake, VA; Aurubis AG, Hamburg, GERMANY; Banner GmbH, 
Linz, AUSTRIA; Battery Energy Power Solutions, Pty. Ltd., Fairfield, 
AUSTRALIA; Berzelius Metall GmbH, Braubach, GERMANY; Black Diamond 
Structures, Austin, TX; BMG Metall & Recycling, GmbH, Arnoldstein, 
AUSTRIA; Boliden AB, Stockholm, SWEDEN; BSB Recycling, Braubach, 
GERMANY; C&D Trojan Battery Company, Blue Bell, PA; Cabot Corporation, 
Billerica, MA; Calder Industrial Materials, Chester, UNITED KINGDOM; 
Campine Recycling, Beerse, BELGUIM; Cookson Group, London, UNITED 
KINGDOM; CoplosaSA, Barcelona, SPAIN; Crown Battery Mfg. Co., Fremont, 
IL; Daramic, LLC, Owensboro, KY; Doe Run Company, St. Louis, MO; East 
Penn Manufacturing, Lyon Station, PA; ECOBAT Technologies, Derbyshire, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Electric Applications Incorporated, Phoenix, AZ; EnerG2 
Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA; EnerSys, Reading, PA; EnerSys, 
Newport, UNITED KINGDOM; Engitec Technologies SpA, Novate Milanese, 
ITALY; EnviroWales, Gwent, UNITED KINGDOM; Exide Technologies Recycling 
II, Lda, Azambuja, PORTUGAL; Excide Technologies SLU, Poznan, POLAND; 
Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd., Iwaki City, JAPAN; Glencore, Baar, 
SWITZERLAND; Gopher Resource, Eagan, MN; Gravita India, Jaipur, INDIA; 
H Folke Sandelin AB, Motala, SWEDEN; HJ Enthoven & Sons, Derbyshire, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Hakurnas Lead Works, Ahood, ISRAEL; Hammond Group, 
Inc., Hammond, IN; Hoppecke Batterien GmbH & Co. KG, Brilon-Hoppecke, 
GERMANY; Interstate Batteries, Dallas, TX; JCI (Europe), Hannover, 
GERMANY; KCM SA, Plovdiv, BULGARIA; Kovohute Pribam, Pribram, CZECH 
REPUBLIC; LignoTech USA, Rothschild, WI; Livguard Batteries Private 
Limited, Gurgaon, INDIA; Lundin Mining, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Metallo 
Belgium N.V., Beerse, BELGUIM; Microporous, LLC, Piney Flats, TN; 
Microtex Energy Private Limited, Bangalore, INDIA; MPI Reciklaza, Cra 
Na Koroskem, SLOVENIA; Muldenhutten Recycling und Umwelttechnik GmbH, 
Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, GERMANY; Orion Engineered Carbons GmbH, 
Cologne, GERMANY; Penox GmbH, Ohrdrufr, GERMANY; Recylex, Nordenham, 
GERMANY; Rombat, Bistrita-Nasaud, ROMANIA; RSR Corporation, Dallas, TX; 
South32, Singapore, SINGAPORE; STCM, Bazoches-les-Gallerandes, FRANCE; 
Superior Graphite, Chicago, IL; TBS Engineering Ltd., Brockworth, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Teck Resources Limited, Anchorage, AL; Tydrolyte LLC, 
Troy, MI; WL Gore and Associates, Elkton, MD; WaveTech GmbH, Rheinbach, 
GERMANY; and Zhejiang Narada Power Source Co. Ltd., Hangzhou, PEOPLE'S 
REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

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    Participants will provide economic support, advice, and other 
assistance to CBI, which, as an ILA project, is subject to the 
oversight of the ILA Board of Directors.
    ILA's current membership consists primarily of lead producers and 
other companies having a direct interest in lead and its use. ILA is a 
non-profit, tax-exempt research organization whose functions include 
the management of research to improve existing uses and advance new 
applications for lead. The CBI program has been established by ILA to 
carry out research and development of lead-based battery technologies. 
The CBI participants include companies who are not members of ILA.
    The general area of CBI's planned activity is to serve the needs of 
its members by supporting cutting edge pre-competitive scientific 
research and promoting innovation in lead battery technology to 
maximize the market potential for lead batteries and the prosperity of 
actors in the lead battery value chain. CBI's vision is to be 
recognized by all stakeholders as the trusted global center for 
collaborative, pre-competitive lead battery research and authoritative 
voice on lead battery innovation by taking a leadership role in 
supporting lead battery research investment and the promotion of 
innovation. Membership in the Consortium includes lead producers; 
battery manufacturers; battery equipment, material and component 
manufacturers/suppliers; commodity traders; end users; research, 
testing and other services; universities; and affiliates. Consortium 
membership remains open, and the parties intend to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership to CBI.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-13157 Filed 6-20-19; 8:45 am]
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