Gabriel Podskubka, Tenaris President for Eastern Hemisphere, spoke to Energy Voice magazine about company strategy to expand its local presence in key markets like Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the US, Tenaris’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, and the development of new technologies to streamline customer operations.
The National Association of Entrepreneurs of Colombia (ANDI) Foundation included Tenaris in the list of “Inspiring Companies 2020”, highlighting the company’s diversity initiatives and their impact on helping to reduce gender gaps in the oil and gas industry.
Tenaris has invested $27 million USD to upgrade its steel shop emissions capture and treatment system at its seamless pipe mill, Tamsa, in Veracruz, Mexico.
Tenaris has announced an $11 million USD investment at its melt shop in Koppel, Pennsylvania, to expand the plant’s size range capabilities. The steel shop ’s caster line will undergo upgrades to increase its steel bar size capabilities and improve safety, IT and automation systems at the mill.
Tenaris has introduced a new version of its Marketplace tool in Mexico, a web platform that enables local distributors to order directly from Tenaris's inventory of line pipe products, and to access shipping and billing information remotely.
Tenaris Chief Communication Officer Mario Galli gave a wide-ranging talk in worldsteel’s SteelTalks webinar series about the role communications has played in the steel industry, and how lessons learned along the way have uniquely prepared companies for the multilevel crises of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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