Effective October 1st, 2008 Tenova has finalized the acquisition of the controlling interest of Core Furnace Systems Corp., (CORE) a Company located in Pittsburgh, PA and leader in the North American market for the design and supply of industrial furnaces for reheating and heat treatment, carbon processing and electric smelting and refining furnaces as well as melt shop equipment and services.

At the end of last August Tenova Pyromet received the signed contract from Balasore Alloys – part of the Ispat Group of Companies owned by Mittal – for the supply of the lower electrode equipment to be installed in the 16,5 MVA ferrochrome furnace under construction by Balasore in the state of Orissa, India

Tenova Pyromet's footprint is making an impact in Brazil. A contract has been finalized with a major global player on the mining market based in Brazil for the supply of complete Electrode Columns for 2 furnaces of a plant located in northern Brazil.

Having earned a reputation as a leader in the design and supply of large   submerged-arc smelting furnaces and complete smelting plants for the production of ferroalloys, base metals, slag cleaning, and alloy refining, Tenova Pyromet is expanding its involvement in the platinum industry with vigour.

Tenova TAKRAF, through Tenova-Semf (Australia), has just completed the final deliveries of the Structural, Mechanical and Electrical components for the Lake Vermont Coal Stacker respecting the tight delivery time of 24 weeks from Award of Contract.

Tenova TAKRAF, through Tenova-Semf (Australia), has just received the order from Sedgman for the Supply of two identical Radial Coal Stackers for the new Daunia Mine in the Bowen Basin coal fields of far North Queensland.

Tenova TAKRAF, through Tenova-Semf (Australia), has recently  signed a contract for the design and supply of a luffing stacker with HWE Mining at RioTinto’s Mesa A iron ore operation, located 50 kilometres from Pannawonica in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

The new Trametal 100 tph Reheating Pusher Furnace installed at S. Giorgio di Nogaro Plant, Udine (Italy) has been successfully started up by Tenova LOI Italimpianti in full compliance with the contractual date and working from the very first day at its full design production rate.

Tenova Goodfellow installed the EFSOP® process control system in June 2007 on TenarisDalmine’s 100 ton Electric Arc Furnace in Italy. Process analysis of the furnace operation commenced immediately after installation and commissioning of the EFSOP® system.

Tenova TAKRAF has been recently awarded by Krutrade the contract for the stage IV, final stage of Ust-Luga coal Terminal expansion.