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Dow Inc.'s jet lands in Texas the day before CEO transition amid layoffs and lawsuit
If aboard, the timing would place company leadership at Seadrift ahead of Karen S. Carter taking the helm July 1.
By celebplanes · 1 min read · Dow
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Dow Inc.'s Bombardier CRJ-900 (N892D) was tracked flying from MBS International Airport in Midland to Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport on June 30, a 2-hour-43-minute hop that arrives at the doorstep of its Seadrift chemical complex.
If Dow's senior team was aboard, they would land the day before CEO Jim Fitterling hands the reins to Karen S. Carter on July 1, per the Midland Daily News [ourmidland.com]. The visit also coincides with the aftermath of 4,500 global layoffs announced in January — including more than 100 cuts at the Seadrift site on June 11 — and an ongoing Texas lawsuit alleging hundreds of water pollution violations at the Union Carbide subsidiary there [texastribune.org].
The flight fits a pattern of shuttle movements between Dow's Michigan headquarters and its Gulf Coast manufacturing corridor. On June 16, the same aircraft flew from a Texas ranch to Baton Rouge during the layoff notifications. This trip, landing at KLBX, suggests a final pre-transition assessment of a site under simultaneous legal and regulatory pressure.
Aboard the Bombardier CRJ-900
The aircraft
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