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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
9 F4 u: `+ E- B: l$ K* s) r) p. S. dDow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs

& k% S' U. m6 w& O8 sEDMONTON — 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.

9 K  t' O* Z0 {) j% E! JMary-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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$ i0 h, ~9 y- I" n% D. I1 c: WThe 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.
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* p& @# T! m2 r1 {0 eDow employs about 630 people in Alberta, with 550 in Fort Saskatchewan with the balance at its Prentiss facility near Red Deer.

Dow 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 $15 billion to acquire Rohm and Haas using proceeds from the joint venture.
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" J& T/ D2 w1 v2 h# L$ L0 KDow’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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Philadelphia-based Rohm and Haas sued Dow in a bid to force the deal to close. Dow filed its response to the lawsuit on Tuesday.
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6 e( A2 `$ G3 ~7 l5 kDow 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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