Pirelli awards its 9 best suppliers

Pirelli has awarded its Pirelli Supplier Award 2022 to nine of its more than 1,500 suppliers around the world. Honouring the recipients, the tyre maker states that each of the nine have “distinguished themselves in making Pirelli’s supply chain even more sustainable, innovative and qualitatively excellent.” Pirelli presented the awards during a ceremony at its headquarters in Milan. Today’s event was hosted by Marco Tronchetti Provera, Pirelli’s executive vice-chairman and chief executive officer, and Andrea Maganzani, chief procurement officer.

“The sharing of our company values with our suppliers is a key step towards achieving the goals we have set, in particular those linked to sustainability and innovation,” comments Marco Tronchetti Provera. “These strategic factors enable us to remain competitive even at this particular time. For this reason, we wanted to award the companies that have become important partners for our activities throughout the world.”

Pirelli awarded these companies in 2022:

Sustainability

DRT (France), supplier of bio-chemical products;

Quality

Evonik (Germany), silica supplier;

Innovation

Asahi Kasei Corporation (Japan), supplier of synthetic rubber;

Amazon Web Services (USA), partner for digital transformation;

Performance

Jiangsu Xingda Steel Tyre Cord Group Corporation (China), supplier of metallic reinforcements;

Service Level

Kordsa (Turkey), supplier of textile reinforcements;

DHL Global Forwarding (Italy) Spa (Italy), international logistics partner;

Fortek Srl (Italy), supplier of products and services for industry;

DCS Multiserve Ltd (UK), supplier of general services.

Almost 150 of Pirelli’s preferred suppliers participated in the ceremony, during which the company reiterated its strategy for achieving its 2025 Industrial Plan through the use of innovative materials derived from renewable and recycled sources. Another important factor in sustainability is the process of de-carbonisation, to which the Pirelli Group’s partners are called upon to contribute, with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions within Pirelli’s supply chain by nine per cent in 2025 compared with the 2018 figure.