Dow Chemical Begins Layoffs
Dow Chemical Co. has begun laying off workers in Texas and in other regions and will close a third manufacturing plant in the state as part of a corporate restructuring announced last month.
Layoffs started this week at all of the Midland, Mich.-based chemical giant’s operations in Texas, where the company employs 6,000 people at manufacturing sites in La Porte, Freeport, Texas City, Clear Lake, Seadrift and an administrative office in Houston, Dow spokeswoman Tracie Copeland said.
Dow, the nation’s largest chemical maker, also will shut down a production unit at its manufacturing complex in Texas City. The unit, which makes solution vinyl resins, also called SVR, will close later this year, and the company hopes to reassign its 58 workers, Copeland said. The Texas City unit joins two plants at the Freeport complex - a styrene unit at Plant B and a chlor-alkali unit at Oyster Creek - also being shuttered as part of the restructuring.
Layoffs started this week at all of the Midland, Mich.-based chemical giant’s operations in Texas, where the company employs 6,000 people at manufacturing sites in La Porte, Freeport, Texas City, Clear Lake, Seadrift and an administrative office in Houston, Dow spokeswoman Tracie Copeland said.
Dow, the nation’s largest chemical maker, also will shut down a production unit at its manufacturing complex in Texas City. The unit, which makes solution vinyl resins, also called SVR, will close later this year, and the company hopes to reassign its 58 workers, Copeland said. The Texas City unit joins two plants at the Freeport complex - a styrene unit at Plant B and a chlor-alkali unit at Oyster Creek - also being shuttered as part of the restructuring.
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