Dow化工亚省工厂将裁员

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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
Dow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs

/ C: @) q3 a6 l3 o( TEDMONTON — 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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* t7 J$ R) b8 ]6 i# z2 DMary-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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) m) |0 R; m4 vThe 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 L0 o8 }" r; c; E/ ?( K2 BDow 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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5 Q/ a7 j3 s' m1 [) kDow posted weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Tuesday because demand has plummeted in markets such as the construction, electronics and automotives.

5 {0 V3 p; x* p: k; [5 lDow 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 $15 billion to acquire Rohm and Haas using proceeds from the joint venture.
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7 x; m8 D1 `4 w* O- I1 }  K! F$ M3 WDow’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.

5 w8 Y, {+ E' R9 w4 l5 P) aDow 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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