DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,152

NOBLE METAL PROCESSING
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM BEACON PROFESSIONAL
STAFFING AND RCM TECHNOLOGIES
SOUTH HAVEN, MICHIGAN

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:
(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)(I) imports of articles or services like or directly
competitive with articles produced or services supplied by
such firm 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 June 10, 20099 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Noble Metal Processing, South Haven, Michigan. The
workers produce flat and hot rolled steel automotive
components. The worker group includes on-site leased workers
from Beacon Professional Staffing and RCM Technologies.
The investigation revealed that workers of Noble Metal
Processing who are engaged in employment related to production
of flat and hot rolled steel automotive components meet the
criteria for certification.
Section 222(a)(1) has been met because a significant
proportion of the worker group was separated from employment
in the last year.
Section 222(a)(2)(A)(i) has been met because the sales
and/or production of flat and hot rolled steel automotive
components by Noble Metal Processing have decreased absolutely
during the past year.
Section 222(a)(2)(A)(ii) has been met because imports of
articles or services like or directly competitive with flat
and hot rolled steel automotive components by a major customer
of the subject firm have increased. The Department of Labor
surveyed the major declining customer of the subject firm
regarding its purchases of flat and hot rolled steel automotive
components in 2007, 2008 and in January to April 2009. The
customer reported that flat and hot rolled steel automotive
components formerly purchased from the subject firm are being
imported from Canadian component manufacturers.
Finally, Section 222(a)(2)(A)(iii) has been met because
the increased imports of flat and hot rolled steel automotive
components by customers of Noble Metal Processing, South
Haven, Michigan contributed importantly to the worker group
separations and sales/production declines at the South Haven
facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Noble Metal
Processing, South Haven, Michigan, including on-site leased
workers from Beacon Professional Staffing and RCM Technologies,
who are engaged in employment related to flat and hot rolled
steel automotive components 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 Noble Metal Processing, South Haven,
Michigan, including on-site leased workers from Beacon
Professional Staffing and RCM Technologies, who became
totally or partially separated from employment on or after
June 10, 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 23rd day of July, 2009



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