DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,475
FOAMADE INDUSTRIES, INC.
AUBURN HIILS, MICHIGAN

TA-W-70,475A
FOAMADE INDUSTRIES, INC.
HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN

TA-W-70,475B
FOAMADE INDUSTRIES, INC.
VERONA, MISSISSIPPI

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 Foamade Industries, Inc. (hereafter referred to as
Foamade) at three facilities: Auburn Hills, Michigan (TA-W-
70,475); Hillsdale, Michigan (TA-W-70,475A); and Verona,
Mississippi (TA-W-70,475B). The workers produce foam-fabricated
articles, such as gaskets, seals, filters, and watershields, for
automobiles. The workers are not separately identifiable by
article produced. The petition alleges that the impact of
foreign competition on its customers has contributed to the
separations at Foamade.
The investigation revealed that workers of Foamade, Auburn
Hills, Michigan, Foamade, Hillsdale, Michigan, and Foamade,
Verona, Mississippi, who are engaged in employment related to
the production of foam-fabricated articles meet the criteria as
Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because more than five percent
of the workers at each Foamade facility (Auburn Hills,
Michigan; Hillsdale, Michigan; Verona, Mississippi) have been
separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of
Foamade produced and sold foam-fabricated articles to General
Motors Corporation, Doraville, Georgia (GM-Doraville) to be
incorporated into automobiles. Workers of GM-Doraville are
covered by certification number TA-W-63,941 (issued on October
28, 2008) based on increased imports of articles like or
directly competitive with vehicles produced by GM-Doraville.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Foamade with respect to foam-fabricated articles sold to
GM-Doraville contributed importantly to worker separations at
Foamade, Auburn Hills, Michigan, Foamade, Hillsdale, Michigan,
and Foamade, Verona, Mississippi.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Foamade Industries,
Inc., Auburn Hills, Michigan, Hillsdale, Michigan, and Verona,
Mississippi, who are engaged in employment related to foam-
fabricated articles 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 Foamade Industries, Inc., Auburn Hills,
Michigan (TA-W-70,475), Hillsdale, Michigan (TA-W-
70,475A), and Verona, Mississippi (TA-W-70,475B), 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 31st day of July, 2009

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