DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,457

CORE MANUFACTURING
MULTI-PLASTICS, INC., DIVISION
SIPCO, INC., DIVISION
INCLUDING LEASED WORKERS OF M-PLOY TEMPORARIES, INC.
SAEGERTOWN, 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(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the
firm have become totally or partially separated, or
are threatened to become totally or partially
separated;

II. the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer
to a firm that employed a group of workers who
received a certification of eligibility under Section
222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such
supply or production is related to the article or
service that was the basis for such certification; and

III. either
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component
parts it supplied to the firm described in paragraph
(2) accounted for at least 20 percent of the
production or sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm
described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(d) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(d), defines the
term "Supplier" as "a firm that produces and supplies directly
to another firm component parts for articles, or services used
in the production of articles or in the supply of services, as
the case may be, that were the basis for a certification of
eligibility under subsection (a) [of Section 222 of the Act] of
a group of workers employed by such other firm."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on May 22, 2009, by a company official on behalf of
workers of Core Manufacturing, Multi-Plastics, Inc., Division
and Sipco, Inc., Division, Saegertown, Pennsylvania. The
workers produce component tools and molds, injection molded
plastic parts, and precision and production machining. The
petitioner alleged that the subject firm had lost business
with a TAA certified firm.
The worker group includes leased workers of M-Ploy
Temporaries, Inc.
The investigation revealed that workers of Core
Manufacturing, Multi-Plastics, Inc., Division and Sipco, Inc.,
Division, Saegertown, Pennsylvania, who are engaged in
employment related to component tools and molds, injection
molded plastic parts, and precision and production machining,
meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker
certification.
Criterion I has been met because more than 5 percent of
the firm's workers have been laid off.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of Core
Manufacturing, Multi-Plastics, Inc., Division and Sipco, Inc.,
Division, Saegertown, Pennsylvania, produced and sold
component tools and molds, injection molded plastic parts, and
precision and production machining to TYCO Electronics
Corporation, Greensboro, North Carolina, to be incorporated
into electronic connectors. Workers of TYCO Electronics
Corporation, Greensboro, North Carolina, are covered by
certification number TA-W-70,650, issued based on increased
customer imports of electronic connectors.
Criterion III has been met because the component tools and
molds, injection molded plastic parts, and precision and
production machining produced by Core Manufacturing, Multi-
Plastics, Inc., Division and Sipco, Inc., Division,
Saegertown, Pennsylvania for TYCO Electronics Corporations,
Greensboro, North Carolina accounted for at least 20 percent
of the production or sales of Multi-Plastics, Inc.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Core Manufacturing,
Multi-Plastics, Inc., Division and Sipco, Inc., Division,
including leased workers of M-Ploy Temporaries, Inc.,
Saegertown, Pennsylvania who are engaged in employment related
to component tools and molds, injection molded plastic parts,
and precision and production machining 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 Core Manufacturing, Multi-Plastics, Inc.,
Division and Sipco, Inc., Division, including leased
workers of M-Ploy Temporaries, Inc., Saegertown,
Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after May 20, 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 13th day of November, 2009.


/s/ Richard Church
______________________________
RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance