DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,201

FORMED FIBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM ADECCO
AUBURN, MAINE

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 13, 2009 by the company official on behalf of
workers of Formed Fiber Technologies, Inc., Auburn, Maine
(Formed Fiber Technologies). The workers produce nonwoven
needle punched polyester carpet and automotive trunk liners
used in automobiles. The workers are not separately
identifiable by products produced. The worker group also
includes on-site leased workers from Adecco.
The investigation revealed that workers of Formed Fiber
Technologies who are engaged in employment related to nonwoven
needle punched polyester carpet and automotive trunk liners
used in automobiles meet the criteria as Suppliers for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of the workers in the workers' firm have become
totally or partially separated.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Formed Fiber
Technologies produced and sold nonwoven needle punched
polyester carpet and automotive trunk liners used in
automobiles to a firm that employed a worker group who is
covered by an active certification to be incorporated into
automobiles.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Formed Fiber Technologies with the TAA-certified firm, with
respect to nonwoven needle punched polyester carpet and
automotive trunk liners used in automobiles sold to the TAA-
certified firm, contributed importantly to worker separations
at Formed Fiber Technologies.













Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Formed Fiber
Technologies, Inc., including on-site leased workers from
Adecco, Auburn, Maine, who are engaged in employment related to
nonwoven needle punched polyester carpet and automotive trunk
liners used in automobiles 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 Formed Fiber Technologies, Inc., including
on-site leased workers from Adecco, Auburn, Maine, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after June 12, 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 1st day of February, 2010.


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