Layoffs coming at jet maker Pratt & Whitney

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Aircraft engine maker Pratt & Whitney Canada is poised to lay off as many as 1,000 employees worldwide in the coming months.
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The company employs 10,000 people around the world, including 7,000 people in Canada. Most of the company's workforce is in the province of Quebec.

9 W$ A; f: q- h9 O) IIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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* L7 R% m! y% o- f! CEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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$ ~. T& k9 _0 F% i4 q2 K' @4 k( k5 MThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

% g. c  k# l8 F* J. BSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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% \7 ~, x8 u" F% P- g) RPratt & Whitney Canada makes jets for Bombardier and Cessna, two airplane makers that have announced their own cuts due to a slowdown in the aerospace industry.

% |9 U4 e/ e  d  o! O& KNews of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.
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Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.
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5 J+ s2 V: s) ~3 APratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.