Tenova Core has recently been contracted by Gerdau Ameristeel to design and supply a 140 tph walking beam reheat furnace at Gerdau’s Calvert City, Kentucky, facility. The new walking beam furnace will replace an existing furnace and will be used to efficiently and uniformly heat billets for processing.

Tenova Core has been contracted by Metallix Refining, Inc. to design and supply a custom roller hearth type furnace.

Tenova Core has received an additional contract from Armstrong World Industries to provide a complete material handling feed system for the new 12.5 MVA submerged arc furnace (SAF) at Armstrong’s new Millwood, West Virginia facility.

Gerdau Ameristeel has contracted Tenova Core to provide a major revamp of the existing Consteel® system located at the Charlotte, North Carolina plant.

Tenova Core, in conjunction with Tenova Pyromet (South Africa), has recently been contracted to design and supply a 12.5 MVA submerged arc furnace (SAF) for Armstrong World Industries’ new 30,000 square foot manufacturing plant, located in Millwood, West Virginia.

Tenova Core has completed the successful start-up of a walking hearth plate heat treating furnace at Outokumpu’s stainless plant located in New Castle, Indiana.

Tenova Core has been contracted to design and supply two pipe heat treating furnaces as part of the major plant expansion project at V&M Star’s Youngstown, Ohio facility.

Tenova Core has been contracted to revamp the 75-ton EAF at Ivaco’s steelmaking facility in L’Orignal, Ontario.

Tenova Core has been contracted to design and supply an austenitizing/tempering roller hearth furnace at SSAB’s Axis, Alabama plant.

Tenova Core has been contracted to design and supply a melt shop material handling system as part of the Severstal North America Phase II project at its Columbus, Mississippi facility.

Dominic M. Faccone, current Chairman and CEO of Tenova Core will step down as the company’s CEO effective April 1, 2010.

Tenova Core has been contracted to revamp the combustion system of the existing walking beam reheating furnace at Siam Yamato Co. Ltd’s,Maptaphut Rayong, Thailand plant.

Commercial Metals Co. (CMC) has completed the successful start-up of a new Consteel® system designed and supplied by Tenova Core.

Tenova Core has completed the successful start-up of two 235 metric tons/hour walking beam furnaces for reheating slabs for a new plate mill at Hyundai Steel’s Dangjin, South Korean plant.

Tenova Core supplied a new rotary hearthfurnace at the Mesabi Nugget facility in Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota.

Tenova Core announces the appointment of Robert (“Bob”) J. Schurko to the newly created position of President and Chief Operating Officer.

Core Furnace Systems, a multi-business unit company of the Tenova Group, and LOI Inc. the USA unit of Tenova LOI Italimpianti, have combined their business operations on March 31, 2009.