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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- m, r5 _; a- Q% \5 u
Dow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs
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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.9 Z2 B5 ]) m" I7 A. q0 n

$ h6 T, T" a+ d9 t9 G/ e2 aMary-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./ l1 Q1 ?3 b2 z+ h- s4 }5 k: H) ?" l; v

0 v5 z, n1 t. XDow 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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9 f% U6 f. ^) C6 F0 P3 j- _- E1 |Dow posted weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Tuesday because demand has plummeted in markets such as the construction, electronics and automotives." y# `3 e" e4 A) o4 y3 [

8 J% z" {# c* C( s3 j4 TDow 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.+ B8 i. D( H: U0 U( O. R

2 l& a2 X; ~, l. u# N! ^) CDow’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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Dow 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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