Tenaris is converting Hotel Siderca, located near the eponymous seamless mill in Campana, Argentina, into a temporary treatment facility for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms.
Tenaris delivered medical equipment and supplies worth approximately one million USD on April 9, 2020, to two local hospitals in Veracruz, Mexico where one of Tenaris’s largest seamless mills is located.
As the communities surrounding Tenaris’s TuboCaribe facility in Colombia are becoming more susceptible to the spread of COVID-19, Tenaris is implementing a community-based plan to bolster medical institutions and reduce food insecurity.
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.
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