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

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

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.