Dow化工亚省工厂将裁员

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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
3 l: O& H7 p: l, {Dow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs

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.
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6 J, t' _1 ^7 k( Y( r; x* MThe 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.

6 k5 @) \, ~; F* a- f! {Dow 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.

4 V* ^1 C0 m: z. i/ ^3 h0 fDow 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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1 [" R8 x7 G! `4 m9 K0 }  |! gDow’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.

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.

* Y" K, f! g1 s0 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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