Chemours Says Market Conditions Will Dent Profit
December 17 2015 - 9:34AM
Dow Jones News
By Anne Steele
Chemours Co., the performance-chemicals company spun off from
DuPont Co. this summer, said Thursday that market conditions for
two of its products are weaker than expected in its fourth quarter,
which will hurt a measure of profit.
The company said titanium dioxide pricing is deteriorating on a
stronger U.S. dollar, and it anticipates more than a 3% decline in
the average global price. This is expected to dent the company's
Titanium Technologies profit. Additionally, continued soft demand
conditions for certain fluoropolymers combined with seasonal
weakness are expected to hurt Fluoroproducts' profitability.
As a result, Chemours expects its adjusted earnings before
interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to be lower than the
previous quarter.
Chief executive Mark Vergnano said the company is on track to
cut costs by about $100 million in the second half of 2015 and $350
million through 2017.
Earlier this month, Chemours said it would lay off about 7% of
its workers and contractors and shut down its reactive metals
business as part of broader cost-cutting moves. The maker of Teflon
and Ti-Pure said it would book a charge of $45 million in the
fourth quarter tied to the elimination of roughly 400 jobs in 2016
and estimated it will save about $50 million a year.
Write to Anne Steele at Anne.Steele@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 17, 2015 09:19 ET (14:19 GMT)
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