Milan (Italy), 17 February 2009 - Pirelli Eco Technology , the company within the Pirelli Group operating in the field of technologies for control of polluting emissions, signed a partnership with Swedish Diesel Particulate Filter specialist GB Environment Consulting AB in order to introduce and distribute the new Pirelli Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) systems and spare parts in Scandinavian, Finland and the Baltic markets.

Pirelli Diesel Particulate Filter systems, called Feelpure ™, are produced using silicon carbide, a thermal-shock-resistant ceramic material, and allow for an average reduction in particulate matter emitted by diesel engines of more than 95% and the abatement of 50% of NO2 . With this new partnership, Pirelli Eco Technology continues to pursue its growth strategy across Europe. Over the last few months the company has begun sales of its solution in the UK, Germany, Italy and Benelux. Pirelli designs and develops the entire filtering system, made up of a replacing muffler comprising a filter, a catalytic converter (optional) and a regeneration system (control unit and additive). Pirelli DPFs are VERT-tested, homologated by the RDW for the Dutch market, certified LEC for the London Low Emission Zone, BAFU-certified for Switzerland, homologated for Italy and Denmark and are undergoing testing for homologation in Germany.

" We are extremely proud of the partnership we signed with GB Environment Consulting AB " said Stefano Sanchini , General Sales Manager of Pirelli Eco Technology . " GB Environment fullfils our mandatory requests of reliability, after sales service capability, market knowledge and technological skills in the DPF business ."

Göran Blohm, owner of GB Environment Consulting AB, welcomes Pirelli Feelpure to the Scandinavian Market . " Our Company has got offers from many Particlefilter producers over the last year to represent them but all were refused from me, I waited for Pirelli, I followed the development of the Feelpure System and we know today that we represent one of the best and most reliable Particlefilter system in the world based on additive regeneration. We are also proud to see that the Feelpure is approved from VERT (the hardest filter system test in the world ) " said Göran Blohm.

About Pirelli Eco Technology
Pirelli Eco Technology is the company within the Pirelli Group active in solutions for sustainable mobility and reduction of emissions of diesel engines with the production of  particulate filters (Feelpure™) and a "white diesel" (Gecam™). Filter systems for buses and heavy vehicles already in circulation (retrofit) are manufactured in the factory in Arese in the province of Milan. A new factory in Romania began manufacturing original equipment filters for cars in late 2008.
For more information: www.pirelliecotechnology.com

About GB Environment Consulting AB,
GB Environment Consulting AB based in the south of Sweden, close to Malmö, is a leading Company in Scandinavia,Finland, Iceland and the Baltic countries for development and distributing dieselcleaning products such as  soot and particlefilter, oxidation and lpg catalysts, sparkarrestors and silencers.
The company is led by MR Göran Blohm, who has a long experience of handling the problems around cleaning dieselexhaust from gaseous pollutions and sootparticulates.
To spread the sales to other Nordic and Baltic countries the company is active searching for local distributors.
Mr Blohm is a member of the famous and wellrespected AKPF ( Arbeitskreis Partiklefilter ), a Swissbased International expertgroup.

Pilot project launched ahead of Olympic Games

The Italian Ministry for the Environment signed an agreement with the Municipality of Beijing to launch a pilot project in the Chinese capital for testing particulate filter technology developed by Pirelli Eco Technology , able to reduce by more than 95% particulate emissions from diesel engines .

The agreement, signed today in Beijing by Shi Hanmin , Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Beijing and Corrado Clini , Director General of the Italian Ministry for the Environment, in the presence of Marco Tronchetti Provera , Chairman of the Pirelli Group, calls for installation of Pirelli filter systems on heavy duty vehicles (mainly buses, but also trucks and later snowploughs and tractors) used by the local public transportation company. The first filter systems will be installed before the start of the Olympics, and the rest after the Summer.

This project is part of a wider Sino-Italian Collaboration Program for Environmental Protection - begun in 2000 - which has realized more than 80 projects for elaboration and experimentation of advanced technology solutions for sustainable development in China.
 
Ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the Italian Ministry for the Environment has strengthened its cooperation with the Beijing Municipality and has supported the city in its "Green Olympics" Program with numerous projects in mobility and sustainable urban planning, monitoring and control of air and water pollution, prevention of sandstorms, and environmental education.

This new project launches a pilot test in China of Pirelli's particulate filter technology. The filter systems designed in Italy can be installed on vehicles already in circulation (retrofit), and represent a solution that can be applied immediately and inexpensively, which guarantees considerable environmental advantages very quickly. Pirelli particulate filters are currently fitted on public transportation vehicles, company cars, and private vehicles in various Italian cities. Since 2008, the Company has also started marketing its filter systems in Germany, the Netherlands and Britain. In the second half of this year, in addition, the new factory in Gorj (Romania) will begin production, mainly dedicated to original equipment filters for automobiles. In addition, the joint-venture agreement Pirelli is currently negotiating with Russian Technologies includes the possible start of particulate filter manufacturing in Russia.

The Italian Minister for the Environment, Stefania Prestigiacomo , emphasized that " The agreement represents not only a way of reducing particulate emissions and protecting the environment, but also bears witness to technological innovation in the environmental field realized by Italy and exported to China and around the world. The environmental cooperation with China, one of the most demanding programs of this Ministry, has, in fact, a goal of supporting an effective strategy for global protection of the environment, inserting itself positively into the rapid evolution of Chinese environmental policy, and placing itself as an example of Italian excellence in public-private cooperation. "

" The theme of air quality " - commented Marco Tronchetti Provera , chairman of the Pirelli Group - is by now vital to all the main cities around the world, due to traffic congestion. We are finding, in Italy as in Europe and in other countries around the world, growing attention by public administration authorities to policies and technologies that can help reduce polluting emissions. We are pleased that the city of Beijing has decided to test our solution and we hope that this pilot project will be the first step on a long journey together. We are also very pleased with the fruitful collaboration with the Ministry for the Environment, a demonstration of the importance for our country of the union between the public sector's skill in systemic response, and the technology and know-how of the private sector ".

Milan-Bergamo, 15 May 2008 – Pirelli Eco Technology, a company in the Pirelli Group active in technology for lowering pollutant emissions from diesel engines, signed an agreement for the supply of about 150 particulate filters to some Lombardy-based companies in the Arriva Italia Group, a leading operator in passenger transportation present in Lombardy, Piedmont and Friuli Venezia. The aim of the initiative is to reduce by more than 90% the particulate emissions from about 150 inter-city buses.

Thanks to installation of the Pirelli filter apparatus, the Arriva Italia Group will reduce by about 12,000 kg annually the particulate matter emitted into the atmosphere by the buses in its fleet in circulation. Thanks to this agreement, the buses of the Arriva Italia Group on which the filter systems are installed, will significantly improve their emissions classes, which will be able to change from Euro 0 or Euro 1 to Euro 3 or Euro 4/5, according to the age and type of engine.
This solution has been realized in accordance with the currently applicable regional norms for prevention and protection of health and environment, which exempt vehicles with particulate filters from possible limits on traffic circulation. The Transportation Ministry, in its Decree published on 13 March 2008, recognized the benefits of this technology, admitting its registration on circulation documents. This allows for modification of the "Euro" class of the bus or heavy vehicle, updating particulate emissions to more recent classes.

Arriva p.l.c., which is present in Europe in 10 nations and counts more than 15,000 vehicles, is highly committed to environmental protection and involved in various initiatives for containment of fuel and energy consumption and experimentation with alternative and ecological energy sources.
Cesare Salerno, Managing Director of the Arriva Italia Group, said "fitting with particulate filters is an optimal solution which allows for containment of gas emissions even of older vehicles, making them absolutely comparable, from this point of view, with newer vehicles. With this initiative Arriva confirms its commitment to environmental protection, and hopes this commitment can be shared by everyone through greater use of public transportation."
"The choice of the Arriva Italia Group - said Bruno Tronchetti Provera, Managing Director of Pirelli Eco Technology - demonstrates the usefulness of the technology developed by Pirelli in support of the commitment by public transportation companies to combat particulate matter emissions. With the simple substitution of the muffler and installation of our filter system, available in 40 different solutions for buses, transportation companies can comply with EU norms in terms of polluting emissions."

Pirelli Eco Technology
Pirelli Eco Technology is the company in the Pirelli Group active in solutions for sustainable mobility and reduction of emissions of diesel engines with the production of Gecam, the white diesel, and Feelpure particulate filters. Filter systems for buses and heavy vehicles already in circulation (retrofit) are manufactured in the factory in Arese in the province of Milan. Starting from mid 2008, the new factory in Romania for production of original equipment filters will also be operative.

Arriva p.l.c.
In Italy currently Arriva is the leading privately held public transportation operator, present in Northern Italy with SAB of Bergamo, SIA and SAIA of Brescia, SAL of Lecco, KM of Cremona, ASF of Como, SAF of Udine, TT of Trieste, SADEM of Grugliasco (TO) and SAPAV of Pinerolo (TO) for a total of about 2,500 buses.

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Research for improvements in performance of silicon carbide filters

Pirelli Ambiente to develop, with Liqtech's collaboration, a process to produce silicon carbide filters on a wider scale

Milan, 22 January 2007 - Pirelli Ambiente , a company within the Pirelli & C. Group active among other things in the field of technology for sustainable development, and LiqTech A/S , a Danish company with long experience in the sector of silicon carbide (SiC) filters for the retrofit market, have signed a research agreement in the field of SiC Diesel Particulate Filters.

The joint research project between Pirelli Ambiente and LiqTech A/S, which will start at the beginning of 2007, will have the purpose of improving the performance of SiC filters . The results that will be generated by the research project will jointly belong to both companies with the exclusive right of exploitation for Pirelli Ambiente in EU, Russia and the former Soviet Republics , Brazil and China and for Liqtech in USA , Mexico , Canada , South Korea , India and Japan .

According to the agreement, moreover, LiqTech will support Pirelli Ambiente in the development of the technology to produce, on a wider scale, SiC Diesel Particulate Filters for the original equipment market. The results of this development will be Pirelli Ambiente's exclusive property and will be implemented in the plant the company will build in Romania , from January 2007 , for the production of particulate filters for the OEM market. The plant, as already announced, will be operative from the second half of 2008 and will produce over 1,300 tons of SiC filters.

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Pirelli Ambiente is the Pirelli Group company operating in the business of providing solutions for the environment and for sustainable development . Pirelli Ambiente can offer the market a vast range of solutions offering low environmental impact and high-tech contents of the highest order. Thanks to the synergies with Pirelli Labs â€" the Group's centre for advanced research â€" the company can focus unwaveringly on products and processes that are increasingly eco-compatible and on innovative solutions. Pirelli Ambiente operates via three companies active in different business areas: Pirelli Ambiente Renewable Energy in the field of energy recovery from waste and renewable sources, Pirelli Ambiente Eco Technology in technologies for sustainable development and Pirelli Ambiente Site Remediation in the environmental remediation sector.

LiqTech A/S , a Danish company specialized in SiC filter production, was founded in 1999 and has been growing fast over the last 4 years selling to the retrofit market in America , Europe and Asia . LiqTech's main competences today are manufacturing honeycomb structures in porous SiC with emphasis on durability, flexibility, cost price and high customer satisfaction .

GROUND LEASE SIGNED TODAY FOR THE AREA WHERE THE STRUCTURE WILL BE BUILT

CONTRUCTION WORK TO BEGIN IN JANUARY 2007 AND LAST FOR 18 MONTHS

THE NEW PLANT WILL BE OPERATIVE FROM THE SECOND HALF OF 2008, WILL PRODUCE MORE THAN 1,300 TONS/YEAR OF FILTERS AND WILL EMPLOY AROUND 400 EMPLOYEES

Milan, 29th November 2006 - Pirelli Ambiente , a company within the Pirelli & C. Group active among other things in the field of technology for sustainable development, today signed in Romania , in the presence of local authorities, the ground lease for the site on which a plant for the production of original equipment particulate filters is due to be built.

The plant, located on a 10-hectare plot within the Gorj Industrial Park in the south-west of Romania , will be operative from the second half of 2008 and will be organized around two production lines . The new factory, whose works will start in January 2007 and will be operative from the second half of 2008, is expected to produce over 1,300 tons of silicon carbide filters annually for the OEM diesel engine market and will lead to the hiring of around 400 employees .

The particulate filters produced by Pirelli Ambienteâ€" already operating in the field of low environmental impact fuels with Gecam™ , the white diesel fuel - are gas emissions treatment systems that can cut diesel-engine particulate emissions by over 90% . The filters are realized in porous silicon carbide, a material that is uniquely resistant to heat and abrupt temperature changes, and can be fitted to diesel engines as original equipment or retrofit components.

Pirelli Ambiente already produces retrofit particulate filters suitable for all diesel engines. Several hundred buses in Italy have been fitted with Pirelli Ambiente filters and applications for earth-moving equipment, heavy transport, diesel trains and electricity generating units are being developed.

Pirelli Ambiente is Pirelli Group's company operating in the business of providing solutions for the environment and for sustainable development. Pirelli Ambiente can offer the market a vast range of solutions offering low environmental impact and high-tech contents of the highest order. Thanks to the synergies with Pirelli Labs - the Group's centre for advanced research - the company can focus unwaveringly on products and processes that are increasingly eco-compatible and on innovative solutions. Pirelli Ambiente operates via three companies active in different business areas: Pirelli Ambiente Renewable Energy in the field of energy recovery from waste and renewable sources, Pirelli Ambiente Eco Technology in technologies for sustainable development and Pirelli Ambiente Site Remediation in the environmental remediation sector. 

GECAM™ EMULSIONED DIESEL FUEL RECOGNISED FOR ITS LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND HIGH TECHNOLOGICAL CONTENT

Milan, 25 August 2006 - Pirelli Ambiente Eco Technology , a company within the group active in the field of technology for sustainable development, today received a Special Award for its innovative solutions promoted within the ambit of sustainable transport, in particular the Gecam™ emulsioned diesel fuel, at the 2006 edition of the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) , the international conference held in Florence and promoted by the University of Florence and the Centro ABITA (Bioarchitecture and Technological Innovation for the Environment).

In particular, the WREC 2006 International Committee recognised the Gecam™ emulsioned diesel oil's value as a low environmental impact fuel with a high technological content given that its use permits the reduction of the pollutants typical of diesel fuel (fine particulates - with a reduction of over 50% - nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide). The fuel is an emulsion of water (10%) in diesel oil stabilised by a specific combination of additives - patented by the group - that can be used to power heavy vehicles (trucks and buses) and central heating plants. The advantages of the emulsion derive from the presence of the water that ensures more efficient hydrocarbon combustion, thus reducing the formation of particulates as demonstrated by the recent tests (among others) conducted by the ENI Technologies laboratories and by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre at Ispra.

Gecam™ is currently used in place of traditional diesel fuel by over 10,000 heavy vehicles in Italy and France and by over 400 public and private buildings, making a significant contribution to the reduction of pollution by fine particulates in urban areas.
Pirelli Ambiente Eco Technology has also developed innovative particulate filter technology for exhaust gas treatment systems capable of reducing the particulate emissions of diesel engines by over 90%. 

Milan, 13 December 2005 - Pirelli Ambiente Tecnologie , today won the "Environmentally Friendly Innovation Award 2005" for its anti-particulate filter technology , which reduces diesel engine small particle emissions from buses and commercial vehicles by approximately 90% . The prestigious award, presented by environmentalist organization Legambiente and Region of Lombardy , is given each year for innovative technologies, processes, products, services and management systems which generate significant environmental improvements and gives the winner the right to use the award logo for one year.

Pirelli Ambiente's technology was launched in Italy in early 2005 and is already used in several cities. It is based on filters of porous silicon carbide, a material with unique features of resistance to heat and sudden temperature changes.
The material is processed into a honeycomb structure which can filter exhaust gases and capture the particulate matter, mostly carbon particles, they contain.
The system is particularly effective in dealing with fine particles. The use of special fuels additives or catalysts permits the complete combustion of the captured carbon particles (an automatic regeneration process in the filter).

The capability of Pirelli's new filters to significantly reduce particulate emissions from diesel engines has been demonstrated in tests carried out at the ENI Tecnologie laboratories and the Ispra JRC European Commission Research Centre.