Source: 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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