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[其他] Dow化工亚省工厂将裁员

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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
' g  \, M( }! k" }  sDow 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.. u  F' D: {/ Q' y0 F
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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. 3 D$ E/ v: r  Q7 K+ I( H
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The 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./ F8 n8 d3 X2 W, v* ~* a" B; @
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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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6 Q# H( t4 Y( \5 R9 A3 o" fDow 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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& C1 D; r- e7 l/ a) _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.
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) o7 V: M( c  k# VPhiladelphia-based Rohm and Haas sued Dow in a bid to force the deal to close. Dow filed its response to the lawsuit on Tuesday.& a9 M& T' Z8 c, l

2 n9 ^6 x2 o* f( U% mDow 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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