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Hi Andy,

Yes, you can set up them via .htaccess using something as simple as this:

Redirect 301 /oldfile.htm /newfile.htm

Not sure why you would want to remove them after a while but you can do so once the crawl errors stop.

Hope this helps

If you have permanently removed your old product urls and they're still showing up then you need to set up a 301 redirect for each of them. 

The 301 status code means that a page has permanently moved to a new location and instructs Google that the previous page no longer exists.

I would also back this up further by updating your Sitemap and resubmitting it to WMT which should help to get rid of your existing issue.