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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
" G5 Y5 a  P& X6 d+ ]0 ]Dow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs

9 ~6 V5 j4 ^  @6 KEDMONTON — 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.

Mary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far.

( g" b: F0 J" o5 HThe 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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/ }6 |& Y8 x( h1 \3 |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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, L' y& `, A1 M; n6 \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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6 Q! M! m1 \1 d6 {  P6 ZDow 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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2 T" i* y) ^" v! b7 _( mDow’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.
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7 ~4 i' d! k2 {+ Y1 A2 h) IDow 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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