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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.
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! Y' Y; y5 J4 B' s0 }Mary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far.

5 g1 @, `) B* `1 Q1 Y  f; r' qThe 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.

7 |/ k3 z3 Q& n; |Dow employs about 630 people in Alberta, with 550 in Fort Saskatchewan with the balance at its Prentiss facility near Red Deer.

. E* ?4 Z. C4 y; _5 A+ _1 v4 wDow posted weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Tuesday because demand has plummeted in markets such as the construction, electronics and automotives.

% W7 [- T* z- 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 }: o4 |0 c' hDow’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.
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: m/ Q4 ]7 J3 N; xDow 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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