Sustainability Channel

Pirelli: Kirov Tyre Plant awarded for investments attraction and environment protection

Kirov Tyre Plant has been awarded as the Best Region Enterprise by Vyatka Chamber of Commerce and Kirov region Government.

During the award ceremony held in Kirov on April 26^th, Pirelli’s great business results and Corporate Social Responsibility have been highlighted.

Kirov Tyre Plant was recognized as the best in the region in two nominations: “Investments attraction into the regional economy” in appreciation of Pirelli investment activities in 2014 giving positive impact not only on Kirov Tyre Plant results, but on the regional economy in general, and “Significant contribution to the environment protection” given on the results of year 2014 for the constant adherence to sustainability principles.

Diplomas signed by Vyatka Chamber of Commerce President and Kirov region Governor were handed to Kirov Tyre Plant General Manager Mikhail Chuvakin by Kirov region Governor Deputy. In his acceptance speech Mikhail Chuvakin thanked regional authorities and the Chamber of Commerce and declared: “It is surely success of all KTP team; we have achieved a lot by now, but still there is much to do. We will keep promoting and integrating the principles of continuous improvement following Pirelli sustainability guiding principles”.

PIRELLI SUPPLIER AWARDS 2015

The 16th of April, at the Bicocca Headquarter, Chairman and CEO Marco Tronchetti Provera has awarded our best suppliers with the Supplier Awards 2015.

Nine international suppliers have been selected considering different evaluation criteria: safety, innovation, quality of materials, sustainability, level of risk and supply-chain efficiency.

The awarded suppliers come from different sectors, from raw materials to logistics, to software, demonstrating that multiple and diverse competences contribute to Pirelli’s success.

At the moment, about 12,000 companies work with us. Selected on the basis of stringent criteria of compatibility with our way of doing business, characterised by product innovation and quality, suppliers are an ample and complex range, within which the nine 2015 award winners represent absolute excellence.

Our sincere wish is to maintain a beneficial and long-lasting collaboration.

Pirelli ST:01 BASE™ is born

Our new truck tyre for trailers and semi-trailers

The range of tyres for the medium and long range transport segment has been completed with a new cover that exalts safety and minimises management costs as a result of its energy efficiency, high mileage, remouldability, reduced noise level and use of innovative materials. With the ST:01 Base™, Pirelli continues to enrich its offer of products for commercial vehicles with a new tyre that joins the other two trailer and semi-trailer products already in the catalogue, ST:01 Neverending™ and the Formula Trailer™. In particular, the ST:01 Neverending™ is the first Pirelli product to have been judged double A class by the European Label for rolling resistance and wet grip, and is the jewel in our crown for trailer and semi-trailer equipment, including for its remouldability. For efficient management in the rear area of the vehicle there is Formula Trailer™, which has four longitudinal tread grooves with a zigzag progression to improve transversal grip and braking performance, including in the wet.

With the new ST:01 Base™ – characterised by its innovative materials and optimisation of wear, born of a patent registered by Pirelli – we cover all the various requirement typologies of transport operators.