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  i5 k% Y  }' u7 [4 f% `: u# @; _' sDow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs

$ w4 U4 f0 i0 Q# p  pEDMONTON — 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.
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4 @* R+ S6 C, @8 Q3 M( jMary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far.

$ G: |2 i" t+ W/ C. V1 H& ]1 N! |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.

0 z- d. z  D* E% ^* Z- O% a" CDow 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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Dow 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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2 \) ]: r8 N0 z- e* T+ W+ _) ZDow 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.
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  g9 G4 T( t8 F0 \, o: [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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8 W* t! s' ?" f4 cDow 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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