please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message for the genus of plants see tenaris plant . for the ancient town see tenarus . tenaris s.a. type sociedad an nima traded as bit ten nyse ts bcba ts bmv ts industry oilfield services founded 2001 headquarters luxembourg city luxembourg key people paolo rocca chairman and ceo products steel pipes for oil and gas energy and automotive industries revenue us 10.8 billion 2012 profit us 1.6 billion 2012 number of employees 25 420 parent techint website www.tenaris.com tenaris is a multinational manufacturer and supplier of seamless and welded steel pipe products and provider of pipe handling stocking and distribution services to the oil and gas energy and mechanical industries . it is a majority owned subsidiary company of the argentinean italian group techint . it is headquartered in luxembourg and is also a supplier of welded steel pipes for gas pipelines in south america . with manufacturing facilities in argentina brazil canada china colombia italy japan mexico romania and usa and a network of customer service centers in over 20 countries . citation needed tenaris has an annual production capacity of 3.3 million tons of seamless and 2.8 million tons of welded pipes annual consolidated net sales in excess of us 12.1 billion 2008 and 23 500 employees worldwide . citation needed tenaris has recently when bought hydril and later split the premium connections from pressure control side of the business . the pressure control business was sold to ge oil and gas in april 2008 . the company s ceo is paolo rocca ; its cfo is edgardo g. carlos its cio is carlos pappier and its planning director is alejandro lammertyn . contents 1 fcpa fine 2 violence in mexico 3 see also 4 references 5 external links fcpa fine edit on 17 may 2011 tenaris agreed to pay the us department of justice us 8.9 million in the first ever deferred prosecution agreement with the securities and exchange commission . 1 a settlement was reached after tenaris voluntarily disclosed details of illicit payments made to officials of an uzbek state controlled oil firm which were not properly recorded in the company s financial statements . according to the department of justice tenaris paid bribes through local agents to obtain competitor s bid information which it used to submit revised bids in order to secure tenders . an official at the department of justice said the company s immediate self reporting thorough internal investigation full cooperation with sec staff enhanced anti corruption procedures and enhanced training made it an appropriate candidate for the enforcement division s first deferred prosecution agreement . 2 violence in mexico edit on december 24 2013 over 100 disgruntled ex employees of tenaris tamsa in veracruz stormed the facilities and were attacked with sticks pipes and stones by supporters of the worker s union sindicato union y progreso or snup . 3 these workers had been unjustly dismissed by the company in 2012 for attempting to elect a new union leader jose carlos guevara moreno el profe . pascual lagunes ochoa an ex convict who as of april 2016 remains as the union leader of snup and often attends and speaks at public events also attended by ceo paolo rocca a graduate of harvard business school . the ex employees are currently in a legal battle against the company having been denied their lawful severance . they have also requested that he be audited by hacienda the tax collection branch of the government . 4 see also edit companies portal ternium references edit us securities and exchange commission 17 may 2011 . tenaris to pay 5.4 million in sec s first ever deferred prosecution agreement . us securities and exchange commission . samuel rubenfeld 17 may 2011 . tenaris sa pays 8.9 million to settle fcpa probe . wall street journal . periodistasdigitales 24 dec 2013 . se enfrentan a golpes empleados sindicalizados de tamsa . plumas libres . monica ramirez 19 apr 2016 . exigen tamseros que sat revise fortuna a pascual lagunes . agn veracruz . external links edit official website v t e ftse mib companies of italy a2a anima atlantia azimut banca mediolanum banca monte dei paschi di siena banca popolare dell emilia romagna banca popolare di milano banco popolare buzzi unicem campari cnh industrial enel eni exor fca ferrari finecobank finmeccanica generali intesa sanpaolo italcementi luxottica mediaset mediobanca moncler pirelli & c. prysmian saipem salvatore ferragamo snam stmicroelectronics telecom italia tenaris terna ubi banca unicredit unipol unipolsai ynap v t e merval companies of argentina aluar banco franc s banco macro consultatio cresud edenor grupo financiero galicia mirgor pampa energ a petrobras siderar sociedad comercial del plata san miguel tenaris ypf this article related to a manufacturing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tenaris & oldid 729767260 categories companies listed on the borsa italianacompanies listed on the new york stock exchangemultinational companiesmanufacturing companies of italycompanies established in 2001techintmanufacturing company stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from april 2013all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013vague or ambiguous time from april 2013all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa ol fran aisitalianoportugu srom n ti ng vi t edit links this page was last modified on 14 july 2016 at 12 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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