Sustainability Channel

Pirelli a sustainable excellence testimonial

Ten among the major cement manufacturers belonging to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) – the World Council for Sustainable Development – met in Warsaw from 13-15 September to identify together positive actions to be taken to ensure a sustainable development in their sector of business. Among the objectives was to facilitate a meeting between cement producers in order that they may share ideas and practices and identify projects, in part due to the success of companies in other industrial sectors.

Pirelli was invited to attend theCement Sustainability Initiative as a company carrying out the best practices in the field. Can Alatas, Pirelli Turkey’s head of health, safety and the environment, first presented the Pirelli approach to sustainable management of the business and the recognition it had achieved, then he switched to the specific objective of his presentation: the practices adopted by Pirelli to constantly improve health and safety in the place of work. On the basis of research carried out by the Cement Sustainability Initiative, the Group’s practices were recognised as the best of those conducted by all companies in the Autoparts and Tyres sector.

At the end of the meeting, the cement producing companies approved a programme of objectives and actions that the sector intends to achieve over the next five years. They concern six areas: protection of the climate, fuel and raw materials, the health and safety of employees, emission reduction, local impact and internal business procedures.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is an association with its headquarters in Geneva to which about 200 international companies in more than 30 countries belong – Pirelli among them – that proposes voluntary commitment to unite economic growth with sustainable development. In particular, Pirelli Tyre is part of the Tyre Industry Project Group, which was launched in 2006 to identify, with a view to sustainable development, the potential impact on health and the environment of materials associated with the production and use of tyres.

The Faces of the Company on Display at Settimo Torinese

Workers, engineers, managers, and researchers are the stars of the company’s efforts. People who create, sell and innovate in order to manufacture the products of today and tomorrow.

It is to them that the photography exhibit ‘Workers’ is dedicated. The exhibit was organised by the Pirelli Foundation and depicts the entrepreneurial and technological soul of Pirelli’s Settimo Torinese facilities through the faces of the men and women who work there. Seventy faces will be on display from 12 September to 10 October at La Giardinera, Settimo Torinese, faces that show intelligence, energy and skill, as well as pride in the good work they do for Pirelli.

Workers
The history and future of Pirelli in Settimo Torinese in the faces of those who make it
A Pirelli Foundation project
Photos by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert

La Giardinera, via Italia, 90 bis – Settimo Torinese
Thursday & Friday, 3pm to 7pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10am to 12 noon / 3pm to 7pm
Admission is free
www.fondazionepirelli.org

Haiti: our concrete help for 4,000 children

Four thousand Haitian children will be able to return to school thanks to Pirelli and all the Group’s employees who took part in the ‘My Time for Haiti’ solidarity campaign.

Launched last March in all Pirelli premises throughout the world, the initiative raised employees’voluntary contributions between March and April and an amount equal to the double of the raised funds added by the company.

Among the initiatives promoted by Global Compact, the world forum of the United Nations to which businesses and organisations throughout the planet belong to contribute to the construction of a ‘more inclusive and sustainable global economy’, Pirelli has chosen to finance a project of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees), which has been on the island of Haiti since the week following the earthquake of 12 January.

So Pirelli will sustain the reconstruction of three schools – two in the city of Belladère (Ecole Atenoir Furmin and Ecole  Congreganiste Marie Jeanne, filles de Marie and one in Anse-à-Pitre (Anse-à-Pitre Liceum), making available new classrooms, toilet facilities and all the scholastic materials necessary to ensure the 4,000 children will be able to study in a safe and comfortable environment.

Exclusively financed by Pirelli and its employees, the project is already under way. Reconstruction work has begun at the three schools and is being constantly monitored by the UNHCR; it will be completed by 31 December 2010.

In the coming months, updates on the progress of the work will be circulated to all Pirelli employees via the Intranet, the company press, notice boards and the Sustainability Channel on the web.