DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,189

DME COMPANY, LLC
YOUNGWOOD, 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 September 1, 2009 on behalf of workers of DME Company,
LLC, Youngwood, Pennsylvania (DME). The workers are engaged in
activities related to the production of mold bases and plates.
The investigation revealed that workers of DME who are
engaged in activities related to the production of mold bases
and plates 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 or an appropriate
subdivision of the firm have become totally or partially
separated.
Criterion II has been met because workers of DME produced
and sold mold bases and plates to firms that employed worker
groups who are covered by an active certification to be
incorporated into injection molds.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by DME with TAA-certified firms, with respect to mold plates
and bases sold to the TAA-certified firms, contributed
importantly to worker separations at DME.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of DME Company, LLC,
Youngwood, Pennsylvania, who are engaged in activities related
to the production of mold bases and plates 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 DME Company, LLC, Youngwood, Pennsylvania,
who became totally or partially separated from employment
on or after August 14, 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 8th day of April, 2010.


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