DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,189

SIGNATURE ALUMINUM, INC.
GREENVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor
herein presents the results of an investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a Firm
under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) a significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or
are threatened to become totally or partially separated; and

(2)(A)(i) the sales or production, or both, of such firm have
decreased absolutely; and

(ii)(II)(aa) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles into which one or more
component parts produced by such firm are directly
incorporated have increased; and

(iii) the increase in imports described in clause (ii)
contributed importantly to such workers' separation or
threat of separation and to the decline in the sales or
production of such firm.

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on May 20, 2009 by the United Steel Workers of America,
Local 3713 on behalf of workers of Signature Aluminum, Inc.,
Greenville, Pennsylvania. The workers produce aluminum
extrusions and billets.
The investigation revealed that workers of Signature
Aluminum, Inc., Greenville, Pennsylvania who are engaged in
employment related to production of aluminum extrusions and
billets meet the criteria for certification.
Section 222(a)(1) of the Act has been met because at
least five percent of the workers were separated from
employment during the relevant period.
Section 222(a)(2)(A)(i) has been met because the sales
and/or production of aluminum extrusions and billets have
decreased absolutely during the relevant period.
Section 222(a)(2)(A)(ii) has been met because customer
imports of planks, stages, and scaffolding products
incorporating aluminum extrusions and billets produced by
Signature Aluminum, Inc., Greenville, Pennsylvania have
increased.
Finally, Section 222(a)(2)(A)(iii) has been met because
the imports of planks, stages, and scaffolding products by a
customer of the subject firm contributed importantly to the
worker group separations and sales/production declines at the
Greenville, Pennsylvania facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Signature Aluminum,
Inc., Greenville, Pennsylvania, who are engaged in employment
related to production of aluminum extrusions and billets meet
the worker group certification criteria under Section 222(a) of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a). In accordance with Section 223 of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make the following certification:
"All workers of Signature Aluminum, Inc., Greenville,
Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after May 18, 2008, through two years
from the date of certification, and all workers in the
group threatened with total or partial separation from
employment on the date of certification through two years
from the date of certification, are eligible to apply for
adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 4th day of November, 2009


/s/Michael W. Jaffe
______________________________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance