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ANTI-PARTICULATE FILTERS FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT

by Pirelli — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:01:53 +0000

On 24 June the international Convention ‘Sustainable Transport: Energy, Health and the Environment. Problems and solutions’ took place in Rome. The convention hase been organised, with the contribution of Pirelli, by VERT – Verification of Emission Reduction Technologies – the international scientific association for the control of polluting emissions.
During the course of her opening address the Minister for the Environment, presented a national Government plan for the fight against smog containing severe and rigorous measures. The measure against heavy transport, which is the most urgent and will be enacted by a decree of law, is constituted by a system of filters to be installed in diesel engined commercial vehicles, which permit the investment of one euro to gain five in terms of social and health costs, given that those vehicles represent 60% of traffic smog.
“Anti-particulate filters represent the most immediate and effective anti-smog system now available. In Lombardy, 7,000-8,000 vehicles among trucks and buses are fitted with such filters, against 1,500 in the rest of Italy”, said Bruno Tronchetti Provera, president of VERT and managing director of Pirelli Eco Technology, the Pirelli Group company active in the sector of technology for the control of emissions.

PIRELLI LAUNCHES INCENTIVE PLAN FOR PARTICULATE FILTERS

by Pirelli — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:41:10 +0000

From mid October to late December 2009, or until inventory runs out, transport operators could equip their commercial vehicles with particulate filters produced by Pirelli Eco Technology, benefitting from the Pirelli incentive plan.
The campaign, whose aim is to stimulate immediate adoption of the filter systems, which allow for containment of substances damagining to the environment and to health in emissions from the most polluting vehicles, includes three categories of incentives based on type of vehicle: 500 euros for light commercial vehicle filters (vans, minivans, minibuses, etc.), 750 euros for midsized commercial vehicle filters and 1000 euros for filters for heavy commercial vehicles (trucks).
The Pirelli incentives are cumulative with those available from the public administration, for example the Lombardy Region, for purchase and fitting of particulate filter systems.
Feelpure particulate filters remove more than 90% of fine and ultra-fine particle matter emissions (Pm10 and lower), the most dangerous to human health, and 50% of nitrogen dioxide of emissions. Installation of Feelpure filters allows Euro 1-2 vehicles to reach the Euro 4 vehicle category, and Euro 3 vehicles to reach the Euro 5 vehicle category.

For more information on how to access incentives, see www.pirelliecotechnology.com.

PIRELLI ECO TECHNOLOGY ARRIVES TO CHINA

by Pirelli — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:10:00 +0000

Pirelli signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hixih Group, a pneumatic manufacturer partner of the Pirelli Group since 2005; the agreement concerns the realization of a filter production plant in Yanzhou. The understanding falls within the scope of memorandums signed with the Italian Ministry of Territorial Protection, Water and Environment and will lead to the realization of a new factory, whose construction is expected for the first quarter of 2010. This new facility will be located in province of Shandong, where the two truck and car tyre production sites are located, hence creating a new diversified industrial development centre, capable of using the synergy from the production and from the commercialisation of the two products. The expended investment according to the 2009-2011 industrial plan, could arrive to 50 million euros within this three-year period (15-20 million euros for Eco Technology), entailing a productive capacity of about 100 thousand filters per year and about 1,200 employees.

THE MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING WERE SIGNED IN CHINA TO CUT DOWN ON POLLUTING EMISSIONS.

by Pirelli — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:55:12 +0000

The two agreements that were stipulated in China for cutting down polluting emissions give Pirelli a strategy opportunity to launch its particle filters. The Italian Ministry of Territorial Protection, Water and Environment and the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, in the presence of the Italian Minister, Stefania Prestigiacomo, the Chinese authorities and the CEO of the Pirelli Group, Marco Tronchetti Provera, signed a memorandum of understanding, which plans the development of projects to launch filtration systems for cutting down emissions of diesel powered vehicles already in circulation (‘retrofit‘); the memorandum also includes the installation of advanced technologies, like Pirelli technologies that passed the tests conducted in 2008. The agreement concerns five provinces selected by the Chinese government in order to adopt restrictive measures for prohibiting the circulation of polluting vehicles, including the province of Shandong wherein Pirelli’s pneumatic production sites are located; furthermore the agreement is implemented in the environmental cooperation programme that was signed by the two ministers in the year 2000. The second agreement involves the Italian Ministry of Territorial Protection, Water and Environment, the Municipality of Beijing and Pirelli Eco Technology, and concerns the installation of a significant number of samples of Pirelli’s filtration systems for the buses of Peking. The agreement concludes the testing started in 2008, which led to the type-approval of Pirelli’s filters thanks to their distinctive technological features.

PIRELLI ANTIPARTICULATE FILTERS ON PIEDMONT’S PUBLIC TRANSPORT

by Pirelli — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:51:30 +0000

A 7 million euro contract to eliminate 44 tonnes per year of fine dust on Piedmont. The Piedmont Regional Government, as part of its plan to improve air quality, has chosen Pirelli Eco Technology to modernise local public transport vehicles. The Pirelli Group company, which works on technologies to control polluting emissions, to install a latest generation antiparticulate filter system, fruit of an innovative technology that can reduce fine power emissions by at least 90%, and carbon dioxide emissions by 50%, on 879 regional buses.

The work to install the new filters on the whole fleet of Piedmont buses will be completed by the end of September 2009. And the concrete results will be immediate. Thanks to the new Pirelli filtering system, the standard of emissions on the regional buses will exceed Euro regulation 5. In terms of pollution, the initiative translates into 44 tonnes of fine dust less every year, over the whole Region, with 19 just in the city of Turin. The agreement between the Piedmont Regional Government and Pirelli Eco Technology represents a further Pirelli contribution to the environment.