DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,066

NORTH AMERICAN HOGANAS, INC.
INCLUDING LEASED WORKERS FROM MANPOWER AND KELLY SERVICES
HOLLSOPPLE, 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 June 9, 2009 by a company official on behalf of
workers of North American Hoganas, Inc., Hollsopple,
Pennsylvania (North American Hoganas). The workers produce
metal powders.
The investigation revealed that workers of North American
Hoganas, Inc., Hollsopple, Pennsylvania, including leased
workers from Manpower and Kelly Services, who are engaged in
employment related to production of metal powders, meet the
criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the worker group was separated within the last year.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of North
American Hoganas produced and sold metal powder to be
incorporated into metal powdered parts to a firm that employed
a worker group who is covered by an active certification and
who produces metal powdered parts.
Criterion III has been met because the metal powder
produced by North American Hoganas for a firm that employed a
worker group covered by an active certification and that
accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or sales
of North American Hoganas.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of North American
Hoganas, Inc., Hollsopple, Pennsylvania, including leased
workers from Manpower and Kelly Services, who are engaged in
employment related to machined 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 North American Hoganas, Inc., Hollsopple,
Pennsylvania, including leased workers from Manpower and
Kelly Services, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after June 8, 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 9th day of December, 2009.


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