(Photo Courtesy of Tenaris)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Koppel, PA) The $85 million fume exhaust system upgrade to the Tenaris facility in Koppel will help to reduce the pollution in that area. On Tuesday, Tenaris announced the project with a ribbon-cutting event at its Koppel plant with several dignitaries including Guillermo Moreno, the president of Tenaris, United States, U.S. Congressman Chris Deluzio and Pennsylvania State Senator Elder Vogel. According to the announcement, this baghouse system is the latest upgrade to the former Koppel Steel shop and part of the company’s broader $140 million investment in the site since 2020, when Tenaris integrated the mill into its industrial system. Tenaris stated that this new exhaust system will more effectively separate, capture and collect particulates and dust generated during the process for steel production, while also assisting to reduce emissions of carbon monoxide. This $85 million fume exhaust system upgrade to the Tenaris facility in Koppel includes new compressors, a new quench tower, a tower for water-cooling, ducts that are updated, the expnasion of the dropout box and the installation of a state-of-the-art baghouse and an electrical room as a place to house the components that are necessary for this upgrade. The new baghouse also has a featuring single stack, which replaces the ten stacks of the previous system that simplifies the containment, measurement and monitoring of emissions that are potential. Tenaris also noted that the fumes-exhaust collection system that was upgraded will clean the filters more efficiently by using pulse jet technology, which improves maintenance in the long-term. Tenaris is based in Luxembourg and is a leading manufacturer and supplier of steel pipe products and services that are related for the energy industry of the world and other applications that are industrial globally. Tenaris employs about 26,000 people around the world in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.