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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
Dow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs
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EDMONTON — Some employees at Dow Chemical’s Alberta facilities have been notified they will be laid off but the full extent of the job cuts won’t be known until late next week, a company spokesperson said Wednesday.

. |# B: e4 s2 T- W- b* N5 ^4 ?Mary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far.
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8 |/ E. ^! W: X. T5 XThe cuts are not expected to be as deep as the 11-per-cent target announced by the U.S.-based company in December, she said.

3 N5 E) Z0 x) Y1 @Dow employs about 630 people in Alberta, with 550 in Fort Saskatchewan with the balance at its Prentiss facility near Red Deer.

) a. d: }( [5 Q( X! Y  E9 V7 YDow posted weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Tuesday because demand has plummeted in markets such as the construction, electronics and automotives.
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Dow has tried to revamp its earnings profile over the past two years, first by announcing plans to sell a 50- per-cent stake in its cyclical basic plastics business to Kuwaiti investors for more than $9 billion. Then, in July, it announced plans to spend more than $15 billion to acquire Rohm and Haas using proceeds from the joint venture.
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9 e' h4 I% h6 XDow’s plans faltered when Kuwait backed out of the joint venture. Rohm and Haas said its merger agreement with Dow, was not contingent on the Kuwait transaction.
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* {- K+ ]* p. J4 C7 D7 s  B. _& ]& v/ VPhiladelphia-based Rohm and Haas sued Dow in a bid to force the deal to close. Dow filed its response to the lawsuit on Tuesday.

0 X% X, s+ _3 y: P0 ?( MDow argued the agreement was not binding, because it was impossible to carry out “without jeopardizing the very existence of both companies.”

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