While the COVID-19 crisis is undoubtedly global in nature, challenges faced by individual countries and localities vary significantly and can be overwhelming. Tenaris is focusing its response efforts on identifying the most pressing needs in communities and using its global capabilities to alleviate them.
Tenaris’s facility in Qingdao became the first in the Tenaris industrial network to introduce mandatory temperature scans, restrict employee gatherings, map out workstations to enforce social distancing and disinfect high-risk areas at least four times per day.
With the health care system in the Lombardy region of Italy under severe strain from a surge in coronavirus cases, Tenaris’s Dalmine seamless mill in Italy is rushing an order for 4,300 medical-grade gas cylinders.
Tenaris will be reducing its workforce in the US due to the abrupt, sharp decline in the price of oil, and subsequent decrease in market activity.
Tenaris announced layoffs today at its welded steel pipe manufacturing facility in Calgary, AB. The company anticipates the layoffs of approximately 110 union employees as of April 1. The announcement was made in a town hall meeting today with employees and union executives. A restart date has not yet been determined.
Fondazione Dalmine (FD), the historic preservation and research arm of the Techint Group, which includes Tenaris, recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a reception for local stakeholders. Paolo Rocca, Chairman and CEO of Tenaris, and Michele Della Briotta, President of Tenaris Europe, led the ceremony.
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