DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,295

BOBST GROUP, INC.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
ROSELAND, NEW JERSEY,


Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19
USC 2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988 (P. L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents
the results of an investigation regarding certification of eligi-
bility to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance,
each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the
Act must be met:
(1) that a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision thereof,
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or sub-
division have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or ap-
propriate subdivision have contributed importantly to the
separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on November 6, 2000, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers in the
Engineering Department at Bobst Group, Inc., Roseland, New Jersey.
The workers produced folding and gluing machines for manufacturing
boxes.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm is not importing folding and gluing machines
for manufacturing boxes.
The petitioners state that the subject firm has decided to
cease manufacturing the folding and gluing machines in their New
Jersey facility and will manufacture and import a new folder-gluer
from Switzerland. However, no folder-gluers are being imported
from Switzerland at this time.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Bobst
Group, Inc., Engineering Department, Roseland, New Jersey, are
denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section
223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 6th day of March 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole
_____________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer
Division of Trade Adjustment
Assistance