KAISER WILL BUY TECHNOLOGY DATA FROM THE SOVIET

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 —The Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation has signed an agreement to purchase technological information and licenses from the Soviet Union to manufacture aluminum at reduced costs, a Soviet trade official announced today.

The Kaiser agreement confirmed by a spokesman for the Oakland, Calif., concern is the latest in a steadily growing number of quiet, often little publicized, transactions between American companies and Soviet trade organizations dealing in technological processes as distinct from goods or commodities.

Usually, the Russians are the ones buying the technological data from the Americans. But to an increasing degree, American companies, looking for ways to cut costs in their own research and development, are buying the latest Soviet ‘technology. The trend is most apparent in the metallurgy field.

Other Agreements Disclosed

Boris E. Kurakin, a, spokesman for Licensintorg, the official Soviet buyer and seller of technology, disclosed they Kaiser agreement and several, others at a joint news con ference at the National Press Club sponsored by the Soviet organization and Patent Management, Inc., a Washington technology transfer and patent company that has signed six agreements with Licensintorg.

The Soviet organization had been active at UNIMART 72, the Washington State International Trade Fair in Seattle, which ended on Sunday. Mr. Kurakin said Licensintorg was “moving more aggressively to adapt its operations to American‐style technology transfer of know‐how and patent rights.”

“The object is to operate under the United States patent system and according to accepted rules and procedures familiar to American businessmen,” he said.

Henry Shur, president of Patent Management, said the Soviet Union “constitutes the world's largest single concentrated source of high technology with proven industrial results which eliminate the risk of costly R. & D. efforts for United States industry.”

“The U.S.S.11 demonstrably excels in many areas of metallurgy, production and fabrication of metals and welding,” he added.

Mr. Kurakin, in announcing the Kaiser agreement, said it should bring in “several millions of dollars” to the Soviet Union over the term of the license—about 12 years.

Under the arrangement, Kaiser will be licensed to cast standard and special’ aluminum ingots in a way that eliminates ingot “skin,” which results when prevailing American practices are used, Mr. Kurakin said.

“This avoids the need for costly equipment and processing steps to remove the cast ingot skin before further working of the ingot to roll sheet aluminum,” Mr. Kurakin said.

Other transactions announced by Mr. Kurakin include the following:

¶Andco of Buffalo has bought a license to manufacture an evaporative cooling system for blast furnaces that will be used in the construction of furnaces in Canada. Mr. Kurakin said “this Soviet blast furnace system is probably the most advanced in the world.” No sale figures were made available either by Mr. Kurakin or an Andco representative reached by phone.

¶The American Magnesium Company of Tulsa, Okla., has signed an agreement to use an advanced Soviet system for the extractiod of magnesium at a plant in Snyder, Tex. In a phone interview, John Mezoff, a company vice president, said the cost of the agreement was more than a million dollars for the long‐term accord.

¶Licensintorg has purchased the expertise and rights to build cash registers at a plant outside of Moscow based on a model manufactured in West Germany by a subsidiary of the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Kurakin said Soviet authorities hoped the new machines would begin to be produced later this year and would eventually replace the ancient abacuses still used in many stores. Robert S. Gelman, chairman of the company, said in a statement through a spokesman that the German affiliate would provide technical assistance and give manufacturing’ and royalty rights.

41Cooper‐Bessemer of Mount Vernon, Ohio, has sold licenses and data to the Russian organization for the manufacture of large gas compressors for transmitting natural gas. A com pany spokesman, In confirming the deal by phone, said it would amount to “multi‐millions” in the course of the 10‐year agreement. John Kovelan, who negotiated the deal, said the Russians would produce the engines with his company's drawings and technology as well as with technical assistance from American engineers there and in Mount Vernon.

¶The Boeing Corporation has sold the Russians the technical data and expertise for the manufacture of doors similar to those on the Boeing 727. Harold Carr, a spokesman for the company, said by phone that the agreement was for the entire 727 door and frame assembly, and involved the turning over to Licensintorg of the complete set of drawings and the tooling diagrams for the door and the frame. He added that the deal had been made by a subsidiary, Boeing Associated Products of Seattle.