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PIRELLI TO FURTHER INVEST APPROXIMATELY 200 MILLION EURO IN ROMANIA THROUGH 2021, WILL BRING TOTAL INVESTMENT TO 740 MILLION EURO AND CREATE AROUND 500 NEW JOBS

CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL PRESENCE IN THE COUNTRY WITH THE VISIT OF THE ROMANIAN PRIME MINISTER DACIAN CIOLOS TO THE SLATINA HUB

Pirelli is celebrating ten years of its industrial presence in Romania and announcing further investment of around 200 million euro through 2021 at the Slatina production hub, underlining its strategic importance to the Group’s activities. By that year, the Italian tyre maker’s investment will have reached a total of around 740 million, creating around 500 new jobs and bringing annual production capacity up to 15 million units, from the present 10 million.

The ten year anniversary was marked by a visit to the Pirelli plant by Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș. He was accompanied by Finance Minister Anca Dana Dragu and Minister for Labor Dragos Pîslaru. Pirelli was represented by its Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Marco Tronchetti Provera and the CEO of Pirelli Tyres Romania Giuliano Menassi who is also the Group’s head of Research and Development.

The additional investments planned from now to the end of 2021 will allow a further improvement of Pirelli’s industrial competitiveness at the European level. Overall, the factory’s floor space, which since its inception has had the most advanced technologies for the production of car tyres for the Premium segment primarily destined to the markets of Eastern Europe, will be extended to 260,000 square metres from the present 210,000. The enhancement plan also involves the production area in Slatina dedicated to motorsport, which includes a F1 production unit which serves as a back-up for the main Pirelli F1 plant in Turkey.

Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said: “For me, as the Prime Minister of Romania, this is a very important investment especially because it creates jobs and highly qualified work force. Pirelli also has a few hundred local suppliers, Romanian companies that are further developing together with Pirelli. In the near future, it is important to attract foreign direct investments, but also to anchor them in Romania so that they bring new investment in R&D and innovation in order to create opportunities for local communities and partners”.

Mr. Tronchetti Provera said: “Over this decade, Pirelli has never stopped growing. This is not only because of the strategic location of the Slatina plant, which for Pirelli represents a key logistics and commercial hub for all of Eastern Europe, but also because of the ability to attract and support international investments demonstrated by the country’s institutions which sees Italy as its second commercial partner and one of the most important in terms of investments”.

Pirelli committed to the local community

The Pirelli Group entered Romania in 2004 when it established the company “Pirelli Tyres Romania”. Building of the green field tyre factory began in 2005 and the tyres were manufactured in 2006. As well as its industrial presence in the country, Pirelli is involved in a number of research projects with the Universities of Bucharest and Craiova and committed to many social and cultural activities. These include a project for the dissemination of Italian culture in Slatina and, in collaboration with leading Italian soccer club Inter Milan, the Intercampus project dedicated the children of the city, as well as the partnership between Milan’s Niguarda Hospital and that of Slatina.

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PIRELLI MILAN TAKES PART TO “BIKE CHALLENGE MILANO 2016”

September 16th 2016 – Today is the first day of the European Mobility Week, promoted by the European Union in support of smart and sustainable mobility.

In occasion of the Mobility Week, Pirelli decided to join “Bike Challenge Milano 2016”, competition between companies in the Milan area that will award companies and individual employees collecting more kilometers by bike between September 16th and October 31st.

The Bike Challenge organized by LoveToRide and FIAB sees the participation of more than 100 companies interested in sustainable mobility and aware that the use of bicycles while going to work is  good both for the environment and the well-being of employees.

Click here for more details on Pirelli’s MobilityAction.

SUPPLIER AWARDS 2016: PIRELLI RECOGNIZES THE PERFORMANCE OF ITS SUPPLIERS

Global presence, innovation, quality, speed, sustainability and level of service the evaluation criteria

Global presence, innovation, quality, speed, sustainability and level of service. This were the evaluation criteria Pirelli used to select the 9 companies that have received the “Supplier Awards 2016”.

This fifth edition of the “Supplier Awards” took place in Milan, where the CEO and Executive Vice Chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera, along  with the Director of the Milan’ company’s Procurement Department, Pierluigi de Cancellis, presented the awards to nine companies operating in various sectors: from ones that organize events to others supplying strategic IT solutions and from those specialised in logistics to raw-material producers.

The successful suppliers also come from different countries – from India to Germany, China and Italy, in keeping with Pirelli’s renowned international flavour and global competitiveness.

The following companies are the protagonists of the 2016 Pirelli Supplier Awards:
Glanzstoff Sicrem, an Italian manufacturer of textile reinforcement materials; Trinseo, an American group specialised in synthetic rubber; Wuxi Quechen Silicon Chemical, a Chinese supplier of silicon; Birla, an Indian supplier of carbon black; Prashida Aneka Niaga Tbk, an Indonesian supplier of natural rubber; Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a leading US IT company; Alpha Technologies, an American company producing laboratory instruments for R&D; Fandango, an Italian event organizer; and, lastly, DHL Express, a German logistics group.

Pirelli focuses strongly on its collaboration with suppliers, considered key business partners for the success of its corporate strategy. To this regard, the Director of the Procurement Department, Pierluigi de Cancellis, said : “The Pirelli focus is increasingly on the Premium segment, sharing with its suppliers a business approach in which flexibility, speed, transparency and commitment to ongoing and sustainable innovation form the bases of the supply relationship. This is why the relationship can be described as a true partnership, centred on shared growth and looking to the future.
As well as raw-material suppliers, this year we have rewarded companies operating in logistics and IT tools, a demonstration that multiple and diversified skills, combined with those of our Group, help further Pirelli’s success thanks to innovative contributions driven by know-how and experience.”