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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  [4 K1 }5 g" G9 u. P( b, U9 N
Dow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs' o; H' `, S/ b
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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.7 |+ f* p3 R) B! E7 x; F' \. Z

, m' j3 ?& _0 E  e# M6 BMary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far. 3 }1 n" I* M0 R+ [3 d1 ?

8 J) O; U% x# A7 b" `' cThe 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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" ~: ~. ]' L" ?% Z7 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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" o" w; i! W' r+ K& c5 R2 iDow 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 $15 billion to acquire Rohm and Haas using proceeds from the joint venture.3 e9 u: j: |+ K8 h: r$ {, V

* B2 I3 x4 X) BDow’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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. s2 a7 l/ Q5 [# r( @4 EPhiladelphia-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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