TMK IPSCO restarts operations at Tulsa Port of Catoosa

Source:  Tulsa World

Keith Marquart leads a tour of the control room of the TMK IPSCO facility at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa. Photo Credit: Cory Young/Tulsa World

When the price of oil nosedived, one of this area’s casualties was TMK IPSCO, which idled its plant in September 2015.

“There was really no business for us,” said Joel Mastervich, vice president and chief operating officer of the company, which does welding, heat-treating, and threading on pipes used in drilling operations. “We had to make tough decisions back then. So we did.”

TMK IPSCO celebrated the restart of operations—and the creation of 168 jobs by year’s end—at a news conference August 8, 2017, at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa.

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