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PIRELLI, ROSNEFT AND ROSTEC SIGN MOU FOR JOINT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TYRE MANUFACTURING MATERIALS

Rosneft, Rostec (Russian Technologies) and Pirelli today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with regard to a joint research and development agreement in the area of materials to be used in the manufacturing of tyres.

The memorandum was signed by Igor Sechin, President and Chairman of the Management Board at Rosneft, Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman and CEO of Pirelli & C. S.p.A. and Sergei Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation.

The tyre manufacturing materials would include synthetic rubber, fillers such as carbon black and reinforcing materials, all developed in compliance with Pirelli’s high technical standards.

Pirelli’s Tronchetti Provera said: “Russia is of strategic importance to Pirelli and this 3-way operation shows our commitment to the country growing deeper. It is also an opportunity for Pirelli to take advantage of the great expertise and experience of its two Russian partners.”

Commenting on the signing, Igor Sechin said: “the realization of this project will help Rosneft and its potential industry partners with the participation of Pirelli and Rostec to organize an efficient production of the most advanced, high quality materials, elaborated by state of the art technologies. These products will comply with highest economical and ecological standards and correspond to the most sophisticated customer needs.”

“Enterprises of Rostec State Corporation are deeply integrated into the global economy – said Sergey Chemezov – The partnership with Pirelli and “Rosneft” in the sphere of development of new materials allows Rostec firmly establish itself in the global market section. Commercialization of research and development results is one of the priorities of the corporation. Extension of cooperation in this sphere will give the opportunity to realize the potential of research institutions that are part of Rostec and to use the knowledge of Russian scientists”.

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Pirelli included in the Euronext-Vigeo Eurozone 120 Index

Today Vigeo and Euronext communicated the results of the half-yearly revision of their Indexes dedicated to the sustainability of listed companies.

Pirelli entered the Euronext-Vigeo Eurozone 120, which includes European market listed companies that achieved the highest sustainability ratings in their reference universe.

ICT: award for technological innovation

Pirelli recognised by SAP for the second consecutive year

One of the companies certified in Information Communication Technology at an international level by SAP as a Centre of Competence, Pirelli has won a bronze award in the innovation category. This recognition, received for the second successive time after last year’s gold award, is even more significant, given the large number of competitors from all over the world in the 2013 edition. The principal projects that carried a fundamental weight in achieving this success are:

-Use of the SAP HANA technological platform based on the In Memory Computing approach, as an accelerator of our SAP ERP environment. This permits both the elaboration of a large quantity of data in real time, cutting elaboration times to both considerably reduce the use of informatics resources and optimising the performance of the system itself. A Pilot Project was also carried out for the use of HANA in the context of the CYBER™ FLEET project for the construction of an applicative environment oriented towards the Big Date analysis

-In the area of revision activity of informatics systems supporting the Finances zone, we are rationalising the systems in operation with the creation of a single integrated system (Financial Supply Chain Management), which is the SAP solution selected to achieve the objective of improving the control of circulating capital and cash flow

-Predisposition of an app for the CRM solution, usable at all times at all locations with the purpose of permitting the sales force to manage their point-of-sale visits programme, gather qualitative data on clients and to always have available to them the most relevant client information

-An implementation project for the Success Factor solution of soft processes within the Human Capital Management environment (Performance Management, MBO, Learning).
So Pirelli confirms itself once again as a leader in the management and use of SAP systems