Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Notice is hereby given that, on April 27, 2026, 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 Rare Earth Technologies (“CREaTe”) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, BlueShift, Somerville, MA; Tubitak, Boston, MA; Longivity Minerals PVT Ltd., Mumbai, REPUBLIC OF INDIA; DexTech Inc., Boston, MA; EXOLAB LLC, Gig Harbor, WA; University of Virginia—ReAsh DOC EnergyTech Competition Team, Arlington, VA; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; Tetra Tech, Salt Lake City, NE; The Cohen Group, Washington, DC; ReElement Technologies Corporation, Fishers, IN; GHOST Development, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA; JOC LLC, Loudon, TN; The Manufacturing Technology Centre Limited (MTC), Coventry, AL; Sadoway Inc., Jamestown, RI; Retech Systems LLC, Buffalo, NY; GeoSkills.ai, The Woodlands, TX; Claros Technologies, Minneapolis, MN; Deep Root Biolabs, Inc., Baltimore, MD; American Renewable Metals LLC, Bessemer, AL; Sovereign Eagle Laboratories, Bedford, IN; Julius, Somerville, MA; Symbiosis.io LLC, Smyrna, GA; Polar Semiconductor LLC, Bloomington, MN; Globalstratos Management Corporation, Durham, NC; K66, Plano, TX; Diversified Technologies, Inc., Bedford, MA; Privately held REE Mining Company, Lake Park, IA; Alpha Commodities, Inc., Gary, IN; Firepoint Energy, Inc., Saltsburg, PA; Redbird Bluebird, Inc., Kingsland, TX; and Solvus Global, Worcester, MA, have been added as parties to this venture.
No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned activity of the group research project. Membership in this group research project remains open, and CREaTe intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On April 22, 2022, CREaTe filed its original notification pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on May 13, 2022 (87 FR 29384).
The last notification was filed with the Department on April 21, 2025. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on June 11, 2025 (90 FR 24668).
Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.