DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,365

AXCELIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
BOISE, IDAHO

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 22, 2009 by three workers on behalf of
workers of Axcelis Technologies, Inc., Boise, Idaho. The
workers provide field service engineering at a memory chip
production facility owned and operated by Micron Technology,
Inc., Boise, Idaho.
The investigation revealed that workers of Axcelis
Technologies, Inc., Boise, Idaho who are engaged in employment
related to field service engineering meet the criteria as
Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
the workers were laid off during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Axcelis
Technologies, Inc., Boise, Idaho, provided field service
engineering to Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho, in
support of the production of memory chips. Workers of Micron
Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho, are covered by certification
number TA-W-72,023 that was based on a shift in production of
memory chips to a foreign country.
Criterion III has been met because the field engineering
services supplied by Axcelis Technologies, Inc., Boise, Idaho,
for Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho, accounted for at
least 20 percent of the production or sales of Axcelis
Technologies, Inc., Boise, Idaho.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Axcelis Technologies,
Inc., Boise, Idaho, who are engaged in employment related to
field service engineering, 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 Axcelis Technologies, Inc., Boise, Idaho,
who became totally or partially separated from employment
on or after September 17, 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 17th day of November, 2009


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