Tenaris provides a wide variety of seamless pipe products for industrial applications with a focus on segments such as automotive components, hydraulic cylinders, construction machinery, gas cylinders and architectural structures where we add value with specialized product development and supply chain management expertise.

Tenaris establishes, documents, implements and maintains a quality management system and continually improves its effectiveness in accordance with the applicable reference standards.

In addition to achieving QS 9000 certification in 1997, in November 2003 some of the Tenaris automotive products manufacturing centers received the ISO TS16949 certification.

In our fully integrated manufacturing process, steelmaking, tube rolling, cold drawing, heat treatments and tubular parts processing, we focus on designing tailor-made products which can meet the needs of our customers for longer product life, weight reduction, better mechanical properties and cutback in costs.

Tenaris offers its customers tailored services thanks to its worldwide service centers - some of which dedicated to exclusively serve the automotive sector in Europe, North and South America, in some cases close to the customer’s manufacturing plant - and to its logistic platforms and component centers.

To reduce costs we work with our customers to simplify the supply chain, eliminate unnecessary process steps and provide:

	Technical assistance and product development carried out to the customer’s specification and/or developed together with the customer
	Cut-to-length at specified tolerances
	Medium and short term production forecast synchronized with customer’s operations
	Just in time delivery
	Delivery straight to dock
	Stocking and consignment programs c/o customer or third parties
	Special packaging
	On tubes for hydraulic cylinders, piercing and ends turning operations

Furthermore, for the automotive industry, we provide value added operations such as:

	In house heat treatments, such as quenching and tempering
	End finishing, including deburring and beveling
	Cold and hot forming operations
	Friction welding
	Other secondary operations such as piercing, punching and reaming, tapering all according to customer’s specifications and design
	Outsourced value added cutting and machining operations