Tenaris is restarting heat treatment and finishing operations at its Koppel, PA manufacturing facility, reinforcing its commitment to supply domestically produced steel pipes for the US energy sector. This follows a $2.1 million USD investment to restart operations and strengthen Tenaris’s industrial production footprint in the US. Tenaris is hiring more than 80 employees to support the reactivation of these lines.
Tenaris operates an integrated steel pipe manufacturing system in Pennsylvania and Ohio. In Koppel, PA, steel billets are produced in an electric arc furnace for seamless pipe manufacturing. These billets are sent to Ambridge, PA to be rolled into seamless oil country tubular goods (OCTG) according to customer specifications. The pipes return to Koppel to be heat treated through quenching and tempering, followed by finishing, nondestructive testing, and inspection. In the final stage at the Brookfield, OH facility, the pipes are threaded and undergo final inspection before being shipped to oil and gas customers across the US.
Courtesy of Tenaris.