DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,893

ALPHA SINTERED METALS, INC.
RIDGWAY, 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), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. The first criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(1) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(1)) requires that a significant
number or proportion of the workers in the workers' firm
must have become totally or partially separated or be
threatened with total or partial separation.

II. The second criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(2) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(2)) may be satisfied if either:

(i)(I) there has been a shift by the workers' firm to a
foreign country in the production of articles or
supply of services like or directly competitive with
those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; OR
(i)(II) there has been an acquisition from a foreign
country by the workers' firm of articles/services that
are like or directly competitive with those
produced/supplied by the workers' firm.

III. The third criterion requires that the shift/acquisition
must have contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation. See Section
222(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. §
2272(a)(2)(B)(ii).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on June 3, 2009, by a company official on behalf of
workers of Alpha Sintered Metals, Inc., Ridgway, Pennsylvania
(Alpha Sintered Metals). The workers produce powdered metal
parts.
The investigation revealed that workers of Alpha Sintered
Metals, Inc., who are engaged in employment related to the
production of powdered metal parts meet the criteria for
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant portion of
the workers have been separated or threatened with further
separations.
Criterion II has been met because the subject firm has
shifted the production of powder metal parts to a foreign
country.
Criterion III has been met because the shift of powder
metal parts to a foreign country contributed importantly to
worker group separations at Alpha Sintered Metals.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Alpha Sintered
Metals, Inc., Ridgway, Pennsylvania, who are engaged in
employment related to the production of powder metal parts 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 Alpha Sintered Metals, Inc., Ridgway,
Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after June 1, 2008, through two years
from the date of certification, and all workers in the
group threatened with total or partial separation from
employment on 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 24th day of September, 2009.


/s/Elliott S. Kushner
______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance