DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-93,290

HITCO CARBON COMPOSITES, INC.
A SUBSIDIARY OF SGL TECHNOLOGIES NORTH AMERICA CORP.
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM RONIN STAFFING
GARDENA, CALIFORNIA

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(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) the workers' firm is publicly identified by name by
the International Trade Commission as a member of a
domestic industry in an investigation resulting in--
(A) an affirmative determination of serious injury or
threat thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) an affirmative determination of market disruption
or threat thereof under section 421(b)(1); or
(C) an affirmative final determination of material
injury or threat thereof under section
705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and
1673d(b)(1)(A));

(2) the petition is filed during the 1-year period
beginning on the date on which--
(A) a summary of the report submitted to the
President by the International Trade Commission
under section 202(f)(1) with respect to the
affirmative determination described in paragraph
(1)(A) is published in the Federal Register under
section 202(f)(3); or
(B) notice of an affirmative determination described
in subparagraph (B) or (C) of paragraph (1) is
published in the Federal Register; and

(3) the workers have become totally or partially
separated from the workers' firm within--
(A) the 1-year period described in paragraph (2); or
(B) notwithstanding section 223(b), the 1-year
period preceding the 1-year period described in
paragraph (2).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on November 9, 2017 by a state workforce office on behalf
of workers of HITCO Carbon Composites, Inc., a subsidiary of
SGL Technologies North America Corp., including on-site leased
workers from Ronin Staffing, Gardena, California (HITCO). The
workers' firm is engaged in activities related to the production
of amorphous silica fabric. The workers are engaged in
activities related to the production of insulation carbon
composites products, performance brakes for automotive and
aerospace industries, CVD fabric products for automotive
industry, Refrasil products for industrial and aerospace
industries.
The investigation revealed that on March 16, 2017, the
United States International Trade Commission (USITC) found
that an industry in the United States is materially injured by
reason of imports of certain amorphous silica fabric from
China. A petition has been filed on behalf of workers of HITCO,
Gardena, California. That firm was publicly identified by name
by the USITC as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in a category of determination that is
listed in Section 222(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e). In
addition, that determination was published in the Federal
Register on March 16, 2017, which is within one year of the
date of the petition filed requesting Trade Adjustment
Assistance (TAA) Certification.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of HITCO Carbon
Composites, Inc., a subsidiary of SGL Technologies North
America Corp., including on-site leased workers from Ronin
Staffing, Gardena, California, engaged in activities related to
the production of amorphous silica fabric meet the requirements
of Section 222(e) of the Act. In accordance with Section 223 of
the Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers of HITCO Carbon Composites, Inc., a
subsidiary of SGL Technologies North America Corp.,
including on-site leased workers from Ronin Staffing,
Gardena, California, who became totally or partially
separated from that employment on or after March 16, 2016,
through the date of the certification and who become
totally or partially separated from that employment from
the date of the certification through March 16, 2018, 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 16th day of March 2018.

/s/Hope D. Kinglock
______________________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance