Specifically, the Commission found that the consummated merger significantly reduced competition in four separate markets involving the design and construction of various types of field-erected specialty and industrial storage tanks in the United States: 1) liquefied natural gas storage tanks; 2) liquefied petroleum gas storage tanks; 3) liquid atmospheric gas storage tanks; and 4) thermal vacuum chambers.
Heating elements in the thermal vacuum chambers are used to heat the spacecraft to plus or minus 125C (257deg to -193deg) to simulate operations in the spaceflight environment; and * Interference to broadcast signal strength, in an anechoic chamber; also used to test the signal patterns of the satellite's antennas.
supplier of field-erected low temperature or pressurized tanks, used to store liquefied natural gas, refrigerated liquid petroleum gas, liquid nitrogen, oxygen and argon, and thermal vacuum chambers (used to simulate vacuum and extreme temperatures of outer space).
The Complaint alleged that the acquisition violated Federal antitrust laws by threatening to substantially lessen competition in four specific markets in which both CB&I and PDM competed in the United States: liquefied nitrogen, liquefied oxygen and liquefied argon (LIN/LOX/LAR) storage tanks; liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage tanks; liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks and associated facilities; and field erected thermal vacuum chambers (used for the testing of satellites).
The Complaint alleged that the acquisition violated Federal antitrust laws by threatening to substantially lessen competition in four specific markets in which both CB&I and PDM competed in the United States: liquefied nitrogen, liquefied oxygen and liquefied argon (LIN/LOX/LAR) storage tanks; liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage tanks; liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks and associated facilities; and field erected thermal vacuum chambers (used for the testing of satellites).
The center's 11,664-cubic-foot thermal vacuum chamber simulates the temperature and vacuum ranges found in space -- approximately 76 billion times less than Earth's atmosphere.
