NewsFlashHuntsman cuts workforce by 9%, closes UK Ti02 plant
22 January 2009 14:09 [Source: ICIS news]
TORONTO (ICIS news)--US chemicals producer Huntsman will cut about 1,175 jobs, or 9% of its overall workforce, and close its titanium dioxide (TiO2) plan in the UK as apart of a $150m (€116m) cost savings and restructuring programme, it said on Thursday.
The 40,000 tonne/year pigment plant at
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