[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10864-10865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4868]



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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Dkt. C-3555]


Oerlikon-Buhrle Holding AG; Prohibited Trade Practices, and 
Affirmative Corrective Actions

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Consent order.

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SUMMARY: In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting 
unfair acts and practices and unfair methods of competition, this 
consent order permits, among other things, a Switzerland-based 
corporation to acquire Leybold AG, a German firm, but requires the 
respondent to divest both the Leybold compact disc metallizer business 
and the Balzers-Pfeiffer turbomolecular pump business, within 12 
months, to Commission approved entities. If the divestitures are not 
completed within 12 months, the Commission is permitted to appoint 
trustees to complete them. In addition, the respondent is required, for 
ten years, to obtain Commission approval before acquiring any interest 
in any entity engaged in either of the two markets at issue.

DATES: Complaint and Order issued February 1, 1995.\1\

    \1\Copies of the Complaint and the Decision and Order are 
available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 6th 
Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ann Malester or Michael Moiseyev, FTC/S-2224, Washington, DC 20580. 
(202) 326-2682.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On Friday, November 18, 1994, there was 
published in the Federal Register, 59 FR 59780, a proposed consent 
agreement with analysis In the Matter of Oerlikon-Buhrle Holding AG, 
for the purpose of soliciting public comment. Interested parties were 
given sixty (60) days in which to submit comments, suggestions or 
objections regarding the proposed form of the order. [[Page 10865]] 
    No comments having been received, the Commission has ordered the 
issuance of the complaint in the form contemplated by the agreement, 
made its jurisdictional findings, and entered an order to divest, as 
set forth in the proposed consent agreement, in disposition of this 
proceeding.

(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 
Stat. 719, as amended; sec. 7, 38 Stat. 731, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 
45, 18)
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-4868 Filed 2-27-95; 8:45 am]
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