Pirelli recognises suppliers from around the world

Italian tyre maker Pirelli recently held its 2019 Supplier Awards in Milan, honouring nine of its more than 10,000 suppliers at a global level.

The awards acknowledge the companies that have distinguished themselves by making Pirelli’s supply chain more “sustainable, innovative and qualitatively excellent”.

Pirelli’s General Manager Operations, Andrea Casaluci, and the Chief Procurement Officer, Pierluigi de Cancellis, presented the awards to the nine suppliers, of raw materials, services and machinery.

Companies in Brazil, China, Turkey, France, the US, two from Sweden and two from Italy were selected.

This year also included a specific award for sustainability that for Pirelli is a strategic management model. In 2018, in light of sustainability’s full integration Pirelli’s global supply processes and policies, Pirelli obtained recognition for the compliance of its supply system with the UNI ISO 20400 guidelines.

Pierluigi de Cancellis, Chief Procurement Officer, said: “Pirelli has a global high value business model. To achieve its targets, Pirelli needs partners who are able to guarantee not only excellent and always innovative service but who also share values such as attention to people, the environment, customers and brand value. For this reason, we wanted to award companies that share these aims with Pirelli and who have become true partners and not simply suppliers of goods or services.”