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[其他] Dow化工亚省工厂将裁员

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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
- ~- K$ P/ }) @2 Q' u. T8 ]Dow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs/ L1 M5 N7 ]0 n7 ~6 ]

% X' J! p# F& I8 C# 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.4 o( O7 p: T3 C! b
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Mary-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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$ R. T. Y/ i" G  O9 RThe 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.: j; W8 i. o( j& ~
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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.9 ?$ `9 v+ \- \$ ^8 w* o

* Q3 P7 J6 S; RDow 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.. {2 a2 }6 V4 U4 C" \# j; [. Y8 F

( ?8 {: m: a5 F) v3 O7 qDow’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.+ E1 X$ \% h0 l$ ~. P: K

) p8 Z$ g0 t: |8 WDow 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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