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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
, g b" l3 J9 ], n* WDow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs9 v- m! o# F* w! e% U
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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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: a& a2 [4 v' EMary-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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1 `/ c4 v t _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 x; E$ q: ?. i
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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.; y) W: y2 w4 I7 A0 c
0 }5 S" }- h* YDow 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.; D+ x7 [0 O* b" P3 s; b& T1 _( Z
3 s% a G+ o" M4 m6 D% g6 M/ B+ EDow’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.6 p7 h N4 E& F; @
; K L* u- w i2 HDow 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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