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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
6 J4 |; O% s9 G& NDow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs
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8 @6 }" _$ Z; N3 B+ r; q5 s* NEDMONTON — 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.

8 {) _$ m8 _8 ^9 d6 jMary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far.

5 ?7 M7 r2 }$ {; w) q# N$ 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.
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% l/ U+ P" I+ X3 I2 ?* t7 @9 TDow 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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: K6 y8 Q( p6 X$ C* qDow 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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# V( e+ O" a* G# c5 YDow’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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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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