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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
* Y4 \2 y$ s4 H1 O5 y* @7 ODow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs* D8 G1 o: z4 d% j: n0 Y
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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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- ]& I% z( Q9 b% I2 rMary-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.
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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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. E5 b7 s5 c- I0 o. `+ cDow 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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% C0 d- q. ?" P% kDow 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.# w8 Y) r" I1 W: T7 r
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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.; G% G! X+ l8 _2 g- A; T
$ c/ U" |3 q: f" O9 |# l; g' SPhiladelphia-based Rohm and Haas sued Dow in a bid to force the deal to close. Dow filed its response to the lawsuit on Tuesday.$ e% _; \1 N% R& o/ N. o+ q* K+ K6 g
) P/ B5 [- l8 F- t# S- EDow 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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