Sustainability Channel

Pirelli a protagonist at the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work summit in Bilbao

An interesting summit on safety – more in particular on safety in maintenance – was held in Bilbao, Spain, on 22 and 23 November.

It was attended by 200 experts and politicians, as well as companies that have shown themselves to be attentive to these delicate subjects during the year.

Among the worthy companies was Pirelli and representing us was Davide Spanti, HSE manager, Europe & MEA region, who described to delegates the main initiatives we have promoted during 2011.

After briefly focusing on our history, products and factories, Mr. Spanti underlined the importance of health, safety and the environment (HSE) as a result of which accidents at work, illnesses and environmental accidents have been halved. He also described our HSE Week held from 12-16 September, a world-wide Pirelli initiative that involved about 20,000 people in 13 countries.

We have been a partner of the European Agency for Health and Safety since 2009. That organisation’s mission is to make everyone’s work safer, more healthy and productive due to a constant exchange of information with a view to promoting the culture of risk prevention.

PIRELLI AND QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY SIGN A COOPERATION AGREEMENT

On Wednesday 20 November, Pirelli finalised an important collaboration agreement with the ancient and prestigious Chinese university Qufu Normal.

In particular, we will commit ourselves to supporting 25 deserving and less well-off students in order to help them complete their studies with the sum of RMB 100,000

And that’s not all. With a second project, Pirelli will help the university to keep its China Confucius web site active and support the Confucius Culture Month as a result of a donation of RMB 60,000.

Our Pirelli China colleagues invited the president of the academy, Ren Tingqi, to our production site in China, together with other important members of the university: the delegation visited our PCR factory as it did the steel cord plant and its members were really enthusiastic about the working environment, comprising high level employees and many sophisticated machines.

The meeting was an excellent opportunity during which to explain who we are and to present ourselves as one of the major tyre manufacturers, active throughout the world; a company that has in its DNA sustainability as much as it pays care and attention to its social responsibilities.

We expect to return to Qufu University as early as January: who knows, perhaps it will be there that we shall be able to find our talented new young people.

Sibur Holding transfers Kirov plant to Pirelli-Russian Technolgies jv

In line with the agreement signed by Sibur Holding, Pirelli and Russian Technologies on July 25^th 2011, the transfer of the Kirov plant by Sibur to the joint venture between Pirelli and Russian Technologies was today finalized.

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