EATON CORP
SC 14D1/A, 1997-08-04
ELECTRONIC & OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT (NO COMPUTER EQUIP)
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                        SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                 WASHINGTON, D.C.

                                 SCHEDULE 14D-1/A

                       (AMENDMENT NO. 2 -- FINAL AMENDMENT)

            TENDER OFFER STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(d)(1) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

                                       and

                                   SCHEDULE 13D
                    UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

                            Fusion Systems Corporation
                            (Name of Subject Company)

                              ETN Acquisition Corp.
                                Eaton Corporation
                                    (Bidders)

                      Common Stock, Par Value $.01 Per Share
                          (Title of Class of Securities)

                                    361129109
                      (CUSIP number of class of securities)

                             Gerald L. Gherlein, Esq.
                                Eaton Corporation
                                   Eaton Center
                            1111 Superior Avenue, N.E.
                              Cleveland, Ohio  44114
                                  (216) 523-5000
             (Name, address and telephone number of person authorized
            to receive notices and communications on behalf of bidder)

                                    Copies to:

                               Daniel A. Neff, Esq.
                          Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
                               51 West 52nd Street
                            New York, New York  10019
                                  (212) 403-1000

                            Calculation of Filing Fee

         Transaction Valuation*                Amount of Filing Fee**
         $292,224,465                            $58,445


         *    For purposes of calculating the filing fee only.  Based
              upon 7,492,935 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per
              share, of Fusion Systems Corporation outstanding on June
              27, 1997.

         **   The fee, calculated in accordance with Rule 0-11(d) of the
              Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is 1/50 of one percent of
              the aggregate Transaction Valuation.

         /x/  Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by
              Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing with which the
              offsetting fee was previously paid.  Identify the previous
              filing by registration statement number, or the Form or
              Schedule and date of its filing.

         Amount Previously Paid:             $58,445       
         Filing Parties:                     Eaton Corporation
         Form or Registration No.:           Schedule 14D-1
         Date Filed:                         July 7, 1997<PAGE>







                   Eaton Corporation ("Parent") and ETN Acquisition
         Corp. (the "Purchaser") hereby amend and supplement their Ten-
         der Offer Statement on Schedule 14D-1 originally filed on July
         7, 1997 (as amended, the "Schedule 14D-1") with respect to the
         Purchaser's offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Common
         Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Shares"), of Fusion Sys-
         tems Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), to-
         gether with any associated preferred share purchase rights
         ("Rights"), issued pursuant to the Rights Agreement, dated as
         of September 8, 1994, as amended as of April 19, 1995 and June
         30, 1997, between the Company and BankBoston, N.A. (formerly
         The First National Bank of Boston), as Rights Agent, at a price
         of $39.00 per Share (and associated Right), net to the seller
         in cash, without interest thereon, upon the terms and subject
         to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated July
         7, 1997 (the "Offer to Purchase") and in the related Letter of
         Transmittal (which, together with any amendments and supple-
         ments thereto, collectively constitute the "Offer"), as set
         forth in this combined Amendment No. 2 to the Schedule 14D-1.
         Capitalized terms not defined herein have the meanings assigned
         thereto in the Schedule 14D-1.  This Amendment No. 2 also con-
         stituted the Statement on Schedule 13D of the Purchaser and
         Parent.

         ITEM 6.  INTEREST IN SECURITIES OF THE SUBJECT COMPANY.

                   The Offer expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City
         time, on August 1, 1997.  Pursuant to the Offer, based upon a
         preliminary report from the depositary, the Purchaser accepted
         for payment 6,921,380 Shares tendered by physical delivery and
         252,405 Shares tendered by guaranteed delivery.  As a result of
         the foregoing, excluding Shares tendered by guaranteed delivery
         (as to which the tendering holders have three NASDAQ trading
         days to submit physical certificates), the Purchaser presently
         owns 6,921,380 Shares representing approximately 92.3 percent
         of the Shares currently outstanding.

                   Item 6 is hereby amended and supplemented to incorpo-
         rate by reference the information set forth in the press re-
         lease issued by Parent on August 4, 1997, filed as exhibit
         (a)(9) to this Amendment No. 2.  

         ITEM 11.  MATERIAL TO BE FILED AS EXHIBITS.

         (a) (9)   Press Release dated August 4, 1997, issued by Parent.<PAGE>







                                    SIGNATURE

                   After due inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
         belief, I certify that the information set forth in this state-
         ment is true, complete and correct.


         Dated:  August 4, 1997

                                       EATON CORPORATION



                                       By:    /s/ Alexander M. Cutler   
                                          Name:   Alexander M. Cutler
                                          Title:  President and Chief
                                                  Operating Officer



                                       ETN ACQUISITION CORP.



                                       By:    /s/ Brian R. Bachman      
                                          Name:   Brian R. Bachman
                                          Title:  President<PAGE>







                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS




         (a) (9)   Press Release dated August 4, 1997, issued by Parent.



                                                        EXHIBIT (A)(9)




         August 4, 1997
         Renald M. Romain (216) 523-4736
         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


         EATON ACQUIRES OVER 95% of FUSION SYSTEMS SHARES IN TENDER
         OFFER

         CLEVELAND, OH....Eaton Corporation today announced that its
         wholly owned subsidiary, ETN Acquisition Corp., completed its
         $39 per share cash tender offer for all of the outstanding
         shares of common stock, and the associated preferred share pur-
         chase rights, of Fusion Systems Corporation.

                   According to a preliminary count by the depository
         for the offer, there were tendered and not withdrawn 7,173,785
         shares (including 252,405 shares tendered by means of guaran-
         teed delivery) as of the expiration of the tender offer, which
         represent approximately 95.6 percent of the Fusion Systems
         shares currently outstanding.  The offer expired at 12:00 mid-
         night, New York City time, on Friday, August 1, 1997.  ETN
         Acquisition Corp. accepted for payment all such shares validly
         tendered according to the terms of the tender offer.

                   The tender offer will be followed by a merger of ETN
         Acquisition Corp. into Fusion Systems, in which each Fusion
         Systems share not acquired in the tender offer will be con-
         verted into the right to receive $39 cash.

                   Founded in 1971, Fusion Systems has approximately 400
         employees and offices throughout the United States, Europe,
         Japan and Korea.  Sales in 1996 were $84.6 million, more than
         half of which were in Europe and Pacific Rim countries.

                   Fusion Systems is a leading supplier of front-end
         process equipment to the semiconductor industry with strong
         positions in photoresist ashing, post-ash residue removal and
         photostabilization.  Ashing is a low-pollution, high-technology
         resist removal process that is key to new generations of semi-
         conductor technology.  Fusion Systems' photostabilizer rapidly
         hardens photoresist patterns on silicon wafers, which allows
         for greater reliability and higher yields than with conven-
         tional thermal resist stabilization methods.<PAGE>

                   Eaton's Semiconductor Equipment Operations (SEO),
         headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, is currently comprised
         of three business units offering a full line of ion implanta-
         tion and thermal processing equipment.  SEO is a market leader
         in the manufacture of high current, medium current and high
         energy ion implantation equipment for semiconductor device
         manufacturers worldwide.  SEO has recently shipped its first
         ion implanter for the emerging flat panel liquid crystal dis-
         play business.

                   In 1996, Eaton acquired High Temperature Engineering
         Corporation (now Eaton Thermal Processing Systems), a
         manufacturer of rapid thermal processor furnaces and small
         batch vertical furnaces for use in the production of
         semiconductor wafers.  SEO has manufacturing facilities in Bev-
         erly, and Austin, Texas, and a joint venture operation in Ja-
         pan.  In June, 1997, SEO opened a new semiconductor equipment
         manufacturing facility in Korea.

                   Eaton Corporation is a global manufacturer of highly
         engineered products which serve industrial, vehicle,
         construction, commercial and aerospace markets.  Principal
         products include electrical power distribution and control
         equipment, truck transmissions and axles, engine components,
         hydraulic products, ion implanters and a wide variety of
         controls.  Headquartered in Cleveland, the company has 55,000
         employees and 155 manufacturing sites in 26 countries around
         the world.  Sales for 1996 were $7 billion.

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