Technological innovation is the main pillar of Tenova’s competitiveness. Tenova is fully committed to R&D to effectively meet the most pressing requirements of today's metal and mining industries. Tenova focuses on the areas of product quality improvement, energy saving, and effective pollution reduction that it considers essential for sustainable development within its client’s industries.

Tenova’s successful R&D is the efficient co-operation of:
• The Customers by developing research projects with them to combine Tenova’s engineering capability with their
  production experience.
• Production experience within the Techint Group
• Tenova’s network of research centers where dedicated facilities are available to test the results of most R&D projects.
• Universities and other research institutes.

The “R&D Team” of Tenova is an international network of specialists and engineers from the different companies and business units located on the five continents and are involved in the continuous process of innovation which has already produced about 500 international patents.

Some of the important R&D results:
• Roll Defect Management Process (RDMP) developed by Pomini for roll grinders
• LOI Italimpianti Flexytech^® reheating furnace and HPH^® hydrogen bell type heat treating furnace - both able to assure the
  highest environmental performance maintaining high fuel efficiency with optimized product quality
• Environmental friendly continuous ship unloaders for Bulk Material Handling
• Goodfellow EFSOP^® System used in EAF and combustion-intensive industries, with the goal of improving energy efficiency
  and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions
• HYL ZR Direct Reduction Process that can be fed by any viable reducing gas source
• Insoluble anodes low sludge and safe process - a new concept of electro tinning lines for steel strips.