Dow化工亚省工厂将裁员

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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
0 X$ j, r8 l5 E* o: ~Dow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs

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.
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3 A9 G* j' W$ z& F2 Y& P& I# \) wMary-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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  p& J4 a5 C! h: \& TThe 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.

& z& B( B0 [1 z# t/ _% |" R% e/ bDow employs about 630 people in Alberta, with 550 in Fort Saskatchewan with the balance at its Prentiss facility near Red Deer.

! y- K1 k' v( U- [; }% `% 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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  ~  l7 w* @9 ~$ M% yDow 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.

5 V, j& O9 Z8 d3 ~" 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.

; [; V" U# J4 P! y/ P% U2 fPhiladelphia-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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