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In Pirelli the world’s first solar plant for the production of average temperature steam

Pirelli and the Italian Ministry of the Environment, with the collaboration of the Forum das Américas, last week presented a project for the construction of the world’s first large dimension solar plant for the onsite production of average temperature steam at the service of the manufacturing cycle of the Pirelli factory at Feira de Santana in the state of Bahia, Brazil.

The creation of the plant brings into effect a collaboration agreement signed in January 2012 by the Ministry and Pirelli for the purpose of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. It is within the context of the environmental cooperation between Italy and Brazil, which was reinforced in June 201 by an agreement signed with Italy’s Minister of the Environment and the Brazilian Minister of Energy.

Taking part in the event were the director general of sustainable development, the climate and energy of the Ministry, Corrado Clini; the consul general of Italy at San Paolo, Mauro Marsili; the director of the ICE Agency of Sao Paolo, Federico Balmas; the president of Pirelli South America, Paolo Dal Pino; and the president of Forum das Américas, Mario Garnero.

Among the project’s participants is the Milan Polytechnic, a seat of learning that has already worked with Pirelli in the field of research and that will be responsible for the preliminary study of the project, and the Gruppo Angelantoni. The Group will supply the exclusive concentrated solar thermo-dynamic technology, developed in Italy with a contribution of the country’s Ministry of the environment. In line with collaboration agreements with the Ministry of the Environment, the Italian Foreign Commerce Agency, ICE and the Brazilian organisation Forum das Américas will ensure the project is monitored during its construction.

The solar plant will be will be connected directly to the steam line used for the production of tyres and the solar catchment area will cover an area of 2,400 square metres within the Feira de Santana factory boundaries.

Maximum power of the system could reach 1.4 MW and will provide a quota of the installation’s normal thermal supply production cycle.

Pirelli engagement in support of Romanian medical system continues

Until today, starting with 2008, 200 doctors and support personnel participated to professional and updating trainings for the Romanian Hospital, with activities developed both in Italy and Romania. The professional training initiatives will continue in 2014 – 2016 with new courses on Oncology, Pediatric and also First Aid.

With the budget that Pirelli will dedicate in the next 3 years to this project, Pirelli’s overall commitment is raising up to approximately 1.4 million euros at the end of 2016.

This agreement is part of the social initiatives that Pirelli leads in support of the local communities where the company is present with its production sites. In Slatina, moreover, Pirelli became active in 2005 and it’s now a developed industrial center dedicated to the production of steel cord and high-performance tires, activities which employs around 3,000 people.

Premium Integrity: Pirelli program against corruption

It is called Premium Integrity and it is our anti-corruption programme, which the Pirelli board of directors approved on 5 August to prevent or reduce the risk of corruption.

“An ethically responsible conduct, permeated by the values of loyalty, correctness and transparency constitute one of the principal factors of Pirelli’s success”: Premium Integrity defines the values, principles and responsibilities to which Pirelli, all of its employees and those who have business or collaboration relationships of any other nature with the company, adhere in the battle against corruption.

It is a systematic assembly of good conduct regulations, in which those that have already been in use for some time will be integrated with ‘new’ specific anti-corruption instructions. These are the results of specific evaluation of the exposure to the risk of corruption in the various countries in which we operate and are repeated periodically to ensure a constant monitoring of the risk.

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