Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published May 20, 2024 2:13 P.M.

(Koppel, Pa) Over 100 local employees are bring layed off their jobs as Tenaris restructures their workforce. Tenaris made an announcement last Wednesday that 170 workers would be layed off between Pennsylvania and Ohio facilities while stating that the steel shop in Koppel would not be affected.

Beaver County Radio spoke with Carolina Mendoza, who handles Media Relations for Tenaris North America about what this meant for Beaver County. Mendoza relayed that a large concentration of the cut positions are at the Koppel plant, in the heat treatment and finishing lines departments. 120 local Koppel workers were affected.

The company says the cuts are “due to an influx of imports of OCTG into the United States.” They add that they are “asking the federal government for its support to level the playing field through the  enforcement of fair trade remedies and additional tools of defense for a healthy, domestic OCTG supply chain that enhances national security with regards to energy development and creates and  preserves jobs.”  

Tenaris says they will continue ongoing investments at the steel shop in Koppel.