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20020165: CHB Capital Partners II, LP; Law Companies Group, Inc.
20020243: National Dairy Holdings, LP; Suiza Foods Corporation
20020230: The PMI Group, Inc.; Fairbanks Capital Holding Corp.
20020223: Limestone Electron Trust; El Paso Corporation
20020221: Digimarc Corporation; Polaroid Corporation
20020201: UNIPAC Service Corporation; EFS, Inc.
20020175: GenCorp Inc.; GenCorp Inc.
20020172: B & C Privatstiftung; Bayerische Hypo - und Vereinsbank AB
0112012 Informal Interpretation
Airgas, Inc., In the Matter of
Airgas, Inc., the nation's largest distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, settled antitrust charges that its January 2000 acquisition of Mallinckrodt, Inc.'s Puritan Bennett Medical Gas Business eliminated competition in the North American market for the production and sale of nitrous oxide. Under terms of the order, Airgas is required to divest two nitrous oxide plants and related assets to Air Liquide America Corporation within 10 days after the Commission issues its final order. Nitrous oxide is a clear, odorless gas used mainly in dental and surgical procedures as an analgesic agent or as a supplement to anesthesia.