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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
- y! T1 K# [7 I+ a/ hDow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs6 J( c$ F' M1 u+ h' d, c8 f3 _
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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.' `* ` M$ c, G7 j. J! t& W
4 K- C1 i! Q. i& NMary-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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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.9 f# z' X/ K& ^* ~6 |# P
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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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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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" o4 ]6 g% I1 P( g/ L( G4 BDow 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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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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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.% t& G3 m9 ^2 ~1 ?) c W
0 W+ i3 z, z" 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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