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SUMCO Oregon had secured such certification as early as April 2002 in a previous work force reduction, but that certification was set to expire, company spokeswoman Janet Clark said Wednesday.
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For now, "(SUMCO) is still in full production" in Salem, Clark said, and almost all 440 employees still on the job will remain working until the end of the year.Neither SUMCO's north plant nor its south plant has been sold, she said.
Workers can receive the new assistance because the labor department concluded that SUMCO workers lost jobs as the company moved manufacturing to Indonesia and Japan and started using more imported silicon wafers.
Some - but not most - of the Salem jobs were taken overseas, Clark said.She did not know exactly how many stayed within the United States.