14MB - Pirelli

Collaboration agreements with universities and public authorities
for joint research projects
The Group signed a collaboration agreement with the Region of
Piedmont, Province Turin, City of Settimo Torinese and the
Turin Polytechnic for development of research and innovation
programmes to develop the new Pirelli industrial centre in the
territory of Settimo. In particular, this agreement calls for introducing
cutting-edge technologies on which Pirelli is focusing its
tyre research activities at the Settimo Torinese industrial centre.
A major part of this project will be carried out in collaboration
with the Turin Polytechnic. This will include the new generation
MIRS, a substantial evolution in the robotised tyre manufacturing
process that guarantees uniform product quality, TSM (Twin
Screw Mixing), a new process of mixing materials at high standards
of quality and reliability, and the Cyber Tyre, the future
“smart tyre” equipped with sensors that can transmit useful information
for driving and controlling vehicles.
The Pirelli Group and the Milan Polytechnic have signed an
agreement to create a professor’s chair and fund five scholarships
for doctoral degrees over the course of ten years on the Chemical
Foundations of Rubber and Compound Technology. The new
professor’s chair is intended to pursue study of innovative materials
and the application of nanotechnology to development of new
generation tyres.
The Fondazione Silvio Tronchetti Provera foundation and the
Shandong University in Jinan (China) have signed a research
agreement for the study of a new generation of “green tyres.” The
university researchers will work with the Group’s R&D Department
in China to create tyres with low rolling resistance, in order
to reduce fuel consumption. This project is part of the research
and development activities pursued by the Group for some time
now to develop increasingly eco-compatible tyres.
Agreement with the Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital in Milan for a
cooperation project with the Slatina Hospital
Intended to further the continuing education of Romanian physicians
and nurses at the Milan hospital, the three-year medical
cooperation programme between the Niguarda Ca’ Granda
Hospital and the Slatina Hospital financed by the Pirelli Group
engaged the participation of 25 Romanian physicians and nurses
in its first year of activity. They received a total of 300 hours of
training in the Emergency Medicine, Emergency Surgery, Intensive
Care, Resuscitation and Emergency Gynaecology Departments
at Niguarda.
The cooperation programme envisages engaging the participation
of about 70 physicians and nurses from the Slatina Hospital over
the course of three years, through participation at theoretical
and practical courses on Emergency Medicine, Emergency Surgery,
Intensive Care, Resuscitation, Gynaecology and Hospital
Epidemiology.
ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT 2008
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