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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
; a9 I+ N; E) t  y0 t  y* [% ?- IDow 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.0 E& k  Q* m# S0 C; @0 m" f

; [6 O1 g7 L/ x" `  M- S; JMary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far.   Z, R) ?' l# E- [1 R) e2 L1 J

" |; C" G1 I8 {$ P; L" p# r9 pThe 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.7 z+ g, E, d0 c, B
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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 ^5 q. y+ E, ?

5 b! K8 y, g# nDow posted weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Tuesday because demand has plummeted in markets such as the construction, electronics and automotives.* R8 b+ S$ b) ?4 F& \" j) c
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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 $15 billion to acquire Rohm and Haas using proceeds from the joint venture.  _  s0 E" F% T2 s& K$ \$ s1 k
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Dow’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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( N! G& b2 r. E- rDow 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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