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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
+ B! Q, E: h& L5 PDow 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.
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Mary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far. 6 l) \3 s. A! }5 N0 H
; d' V! y$ u" n8 iThe 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.) k# D* ]4 G0 W ~! R
1 w- I* e9 _) I; K. P5 }& yDow employs about 630 people in Alberta, with 550 in Fort Saskatchewan with the balance at its Prentiss facility near Red Deer.
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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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& f* s& b: i' B- g/ I' oDow 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 $15 billion to acquire Rohm and Haas using proceeds from the joint venture.3 h# y* M) [1 i' X9 F
) V9 F. g. s2 v* w @Dow’s plans faltered when Kuwait backed out of the joint venture. Rohm and Haas said its merger agreement with Dow, was not contingent on the Kuwait transaction.' y" B, S5 {0 }5 k: k: F* D$ B
8 K8 d, q0 Q. j1 u7 v9 |4 U% {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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Dow 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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