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ESG Update

Jun 25, 2024

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

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Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

The presentation.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Let me just mute you guys for a second.

Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

Hello?

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Yeah. Can you just mute for a second, Aldo? I'm just running through a-

Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

Yeah.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

A disclaimer. Excellent. Thank you. Further, as a matter of legal compliance, we remind you that you must not attempt to elicit from any speaker at this event any material, non-public information or other confidential information, and accordingly, the speaker may decline to respond to any question in his or her sole discretion. You may not publish or otherwise publicly disclose the name of, or otherwise identify the speakers unless Jefferies permits it in writing. Please note this call is being recorded. By attending this event, you agree to all of these restrictions. Okay, I just had to get that out of the way. It looks like Aldo, we've got your team there, is that correct?

Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

Yes. It is.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Excellent. We can hear you. Okay, so thank you for everyone for joining our call today. We're focused on the tire industry. On the call from Pirelli, we have Matteo Battaini, Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Eleonora Giada Pessina , Group Sustainability Officer, and Aldo Perrone, Investor Relations Officer. From the Jefferies side, we have Luke Sussams, Head of Sustainability and Transition Strategy, and myself, I cover Pirelli amongst other European auto stocks. Thank you very much, Matteo, Eleonora, and Aldo, for joining us today. We're gonna start with some opening discussion and then get over into questions. If you have any questions for any speakers, please feel free to email myself or Luke, and we can ask them, or you can put your hand up. Matteo, Eleonora, and Aldo, over to you.

Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

Okay. Michael, thank you very much, and for the introduction, and good afternoon to all our, our participants. Pirelli has delivered solid financial and sustainability performance in recent years. Today, with our colleague, our Senior ESG Management team, Matteo and Eleonora, will be discussing the key sustainability issues in the tire industry, and our sustainability strategy and achievements. I'll now leave the floor to Matteo.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Thank you very much, Aldo. Are we showing-

Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

Yes, I'm showing. Just a second.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

We start with a short introduction about what is the macro trends and the sustainability ESG-related trends of our industry. Then going very quickly across the sustainability plan that Pirelli presented together with last plan last March, and then to touch on the main topics, then open floor for your question. If you look at the macro trends, what we can say at a very high level is that mobility demand, that is-

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Sorry, I'm just going to... One question, quick. Aldo, can we just move the computer a bit closer to Matteo?

Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

Yes.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

It might be a bit easier to hear you. Excellent.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Can you hear me better?

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

That's much better. Thank you.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Okay, thank you very much. Okay, we're saying, mobility demand, that is the main driver for our business, is growing. If you look at the long-term trends, it's projected to grow by 40% by 2030 compared to the 2015 numbers. It is linked to the long-term growth in demographic and in GDP all around the world. Mobility is evolving, not just growing, towards electrification. That, despite some short-term adjustment in supply and demand, is confirming that, for what concern Pirelli, 80% of the global premium and prestige car production will be electric by 2030. With this, OEMs are pushing to decarbonize their life cycle footprint, and are always asking for lower rolling resistance tires, made with less fossil materials, and with lower wearing. And on the other hand, also, consumers are raising their...

And are putting sustainability on top of their purchasing driver, especially the youngest generation. The social factors are rising in prominence on the market, but also on the workplace. Finally, in this context, there is institution, European Community first, but also U.S. with the IRA, and China with their plan, long-term plan, that are legislating at a pace that has never seen before on the topic of ESG. In this context, Pirelli, as I said, has built a plan that is built on four pillars, four action pillars to implement the strategy. The first one is acting on climate change, then we have a pillar about developing our sustainable product.

The third pillar is about protecting natural resources, and then last but not least, our, let's say, people plan that explore all the social aspect all around our value chain. Starting from the first one, that is our climate action, we did set up ambitious decarbonization programs. We did, after having reached for the second times in a row, the target of the SBTi, we did submit new targets, new targets, in terms of the decarbonization of our own Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and then for the Scope 3, our suppliers' emissions. We set a target of carbon neutrality by 2030.

Now our Scope 1 and 2, that means reducing our emission by 80% and compensating the remaining 20%, and then, by 2040, the ambitious target of net zero that involve not just our emission, but also our supplier emissions. Talking about product, which are the main characteristic of what we call a sustainable product or sustainable tire. A sustainable tire has to be sustainable inside, so made from materials that are less and less fossil derived. And here we have designed together with R&D, this new flagship product that we named it P Zero E. That is the new generation of sustainable product for the ultra high performance vehicles. And this P Zero E, in example, is made by more than 55% of material that is not fossil, so is bio-based or recycled derived.

is made in factories with use of renewable electricity, is designed for the new electric mobility, and then is sustainably used. Sustainable used means that help our customer, being the car maker, the OEM or the end consumer, to reduce their overall emissions in the environment. Emissions in terms of CO2, and so this product, like the new ones that we are going to develop, are at the lowest class of rolling resistance in the European energy label. Not just rolling resistance, but always in sync with the safety. So this product is a triple A product. That means the lowest level of rolling resistance, the highest level of wet grip, and the lowest level of emission of noise.

Then emissions, not just of CO2 in use, but also of the so-called tire wear. So when a tire is used, when you brake, when you make curves, the tire is consumed, and so it releases tire particulate inside the environment. Developing, designing and producing tires with always a lower wear, wear means reducing also the impact of particulate inside the environment. This is talking about wear. About wear, we said we need to set targets of reduction year by year and product by product that are quite ambitious. The product launch in the period 2022 has been 22%, with a lower wear rate compared to their predecessor. We set progressively targets going up to -30% for the tires launched between 2025 and 2030.

All of this, let's say, to always develop technologies and, let's say, compound and mixing knowledge to then cope with this topic, and then to be prepared in anticipation of what the new regulation will ask for. An example of new regulation that will regulate the amount of abrasion of the tires in the market is Euro 7 by 2027, and then implementation by 2028, 2030. It's not just a matter of quantity, so a matter of reducing the quantity and the amount of particulate in the environment, but it's also a matter of what we call quality, and so the size of the particulate and the material composition.

Because if you look at what is called the tire and road wear particle, because when a tire is abrasion is going on the road, it's mixed immediately with the street, the dust, with the brakes, with everything that is found and create this kind of element that is called Tire and Road Wear Particle. And as I said, the activity that we are doing together also with all the industry is the reduction at source. So try to make, to produce tires with always less wear rate, to work on the generation and size, because as small as the particle, as potentially dangerous is because it's entering in the area of PM10, PM2.5.

Though a new frontier is to work also on the quality of the materials, and to let this rubber become more and more biodegradable. Here we are working with JDA and with our most close supplier, to develop solution that is going that direction. Then working with all the other stakeholders, namely the one that build the roads, so then can create system for cleaning and collection is the capturing area, because the particulate that we cannot, let's say, avoid to produce, is to be collected in the correct way along the streets. Materials. Materials inside the tires is the challenge in terms of technological innovation and engineering. As I said, our target and the target of all the industry is to arrive at an ambitious 100% non-fossil origin tire.

We set targets year by year on how to go there, and we will go there, first of all, creating sort of flagship product where we can demonstrate and we can technically develop something and put on the market that has always a higher percentage of this innovative material. We set the target of higher than 55% with the P Zero E in 2023, and by 2030, we want to put on the market a product that has higher than 80% of content that is not fossil. Not just on flagship product, but also then use this technology and including the overall production that we do.

So now we are at 23% at 2023, and we target by 2030 to arrive at least 40% of the overall quantity of the materials that we use, that are bio-based or recycled. This in full transparency for the end consumer, because we put a logo inside the tire that identify the product that has this higher percentage, and this is not just a self-declaration, but we are using third-party certification to certify and give evidence of the fact that really those material are inside our product.

In terms of certification, also the natural rubber that counts for more or less 20% inside a tire that is bio-based because it's naturally derived, but that has a supply chain that is the most fragile between the one that we have, because natural rubber is coming from areas in the tropical areas, especially the Far East area, with issues in terms of protection of the forest and the protection of the people that lives and produce these, let's say, product that is coming from, say, forest management and agricultural management.

So therefore, we decide also to link and to join with FSC, Forest Stewardship Council, that is the most recognized organization that is taking care about the protection of the forest management and the people that lives and works in that area. And we did develop first, for the first time in 2021, that is FSC certified. That means that all the materials coming from forest source are certified and tracked from the origin till the final end. We did produce tires for the BMW X5 in U.S. in 2021. From 2024, we are using the FSC certified rubber for all the tires that we are using in Formula One and in all the races of Formula One.

By 2026, we have the target to include 100% of the rubber that we use in our European plant that is FSC certified. All of this is supporting and helping then the compliance with the upcoming European Deforestation Regulation that will go into effect by the end of this year, and will ask especially to have a complete tracking and due diligence on the source and origin of the forest and the commodity that are coming from the forest. I finish my speech with this slide that is summarizing all our strategy around the product in the name of the circular economy and the circularity activity.

So we are working, and we are looking through a life cycle assessment on all the impact that our product is doing, is having on the environment, from the design up until the end of life. We are introducing virtualization in the design phase that is helping a lot in reducing the amount of material and of product that are used for testing. We are changing the materials, as I explained before. We are working on operations to change all the processes, and to become less emitting, including the logistics part.

And we are working also in the end of life, part of our product with a solution for the, recovery of the end of life tire, and, working with the supplier and with partners also, in activities, trying to, recover and reuse the materials, after the end of life, and to reinsert inside the cycle, especially the carbon black through the pyrolysis, technique. I think this was my last slide, and I hope I've been short enough, and then I leave to you the floor for any questions or?

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Excellent. Thank you very much, Matteo. Were there any other comments from your side, or we can jump into questions, Aldo?

Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

No, we can go directly to the questions.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Excellent. We've got a bunch of people put in questions as they registered for the event. So I'll kick us off with one on kind of the EV transition. From what you're seeing, are we seeing a slowdown in the shift to EVs, or is this just temporary, the kind of slower growth rates? And how do heavier EVs impact the environment from a tire perspective?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah. I mean, maybe my personal comment or the comment of my observation on the market of EVs, what we are seeing is that the long-term trend is still like it was. And when I talk about long-term trend, I'm talking about 2030, 2040. For sure, we are entering in the phase that goes from the, let's say, early adopter to the, let's say, most mass utilization of EVs. And so there is for sure, especially in some economies, a slowdown or a change in the profile of demand.

For sure there are activity links also to the incentives in various country that are, let's say, moving the numbers around of the in the short term every registration, but still I think that all the investment that are projected and are being done all around the world are saying that EVs is the way for the passenger car mobility in the future.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Mm-hmm. And the impact as we switch to EVs on tires from either, yeah, what's the impact on your product?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah. EVs are using more tires, using more tires because they are heavy and because they have a torque that is higher than the one of the normal, normal cars, IC cars. Heavier—Of course, they are heavier compared to the same kind of, of, of cars, but if you look also on the last 10 years trend, also the SUVs that has replaced the, the cars are heavier than, than, than cars. So the fact that, all the car park is progressively becoming heavier is a reality, not just of the EV, but in general terms for all the transition to, higher weight, cars.

Having said that, an EV is, generally speaking, is consuming tires more or less 20% more than a comparable tires, comparable car, not, not, not EV. So that's why tires that are designed for EVs has to have a lower wear rate than the one of standard tires, just because otherwise the consumer itself is not happy about the fact that he has to change tires more frequently if you choose EVs.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

But so you, you're incorporating that into the product already, the lower wear rate? Okay, interesting.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Before, so the EV is 42% lower wear rate than compared to P Zero E for basic tires.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Great. Thanks.

Luke Sussams
Head of Sustainability and Transition Strategy, Jefferies

Thanks, Matteo, and thanks, Michael. Just a quick one from me. We had a lot of questions come in beforehand around the Euro 7 regulations. I think you covered a good, a good number of them. Maybe just to, just to really summarize that, could you just again speak to Pirelli's strategy for, for meeting the regulations just quickly? And then, and then maybe a unique part to this, there's a question: Are there any similar regulations coming in, in the U.S. as well?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah. I start from the second. There are on the horizon, not anything fixed in U.S. For sure will come. I think that, as usual, maybe some countries like California or also even Canada, will take occasion from the European regulation to include it, but for the moment there is nothing there, nothing on the horizon. Coming to the first one, I mean, we are preparing with product that has always lower wear rate than standard, if we will be in line with the regulation, we don't know, because the test method is not yet been defined. So the step of the Euro 7 regulation will be by 2027, there will be defined the test method.

All the actors are acting in designing it and to define the real rule on how to do it in real life terms. Once the method will be designed, there will be a market test to say what is the current level of the abrasion rate of the tires on the market, and then by 2028, there will come up the limits and the regulations. So by then we'll understand if and how much we are closer to this limit or what we still have to improve more to be, let's say, in line.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Um, and-

Great. Sorry.

Two kind of follow-ups for me on that. What, what just broadly, what is the reduction in the kind of the number of particulates that... Like, is there a percentage reduction kind of number we can have in our head that Euro 7 is bringing in?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

I mean, it is, it's not yet decided, and nobody has decided. I can imagine that something between 15% and 25% compared to the non-average market number that will come out from the test is a reasonable, or at least is a target that is in line with all the other Green Deal regulation in Europe. So I expect-

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Got it.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

something like that.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Okay. No, that's useful. Do you expect that there will be penalties for manufacturers who don't meet the kind of targets? Or how do you think that will kind of manifest in terms of the market?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Also the logic of application is still a lot of things that are still to be decided. This can be in two ways. One is setting limits, and so, I mean, it's a regulation limit, so only the tires that have that are above this limit can stay on the market, the other are not allowed to enter the market. Or -- and we will see also linked to the logic of the label, like there is the European label that has different grades of tire wear in that case, like we have different grades of rolling resistance and so on.

So there is, let's say, a premium for the best one or the lowest one. But, I mean, a limit for sure, the European Community, so the Euro 7 will set a limit, then we'll see how the industry will adapt to this limit.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Got it. Okay. There's a question from the audience, so I'll go straight to that, from [Ebbing]. We're just gonna see... You should be unmuted. Yep, you can ask your question.

Speaker 5

Good afternoon. So I have a few questions. First of all, you mentioned the P Zero new tire model. I wonder how much percent is that representing your current revenue, and what's the volume? And secondly, you mentioned that you will use bio-based material and recycled material for the tires, and just wondering how would you get the FSC? And lastly, on the FSC certified rubber tire, are you going to roll it out outside the EU? Oh, and also, for the SLB that you issued today, that you mentioned that you will reduce the Scope 3 upstream emission by 28%, and wondering how would you achieve that? Thanks.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Okay. I try to respond, then maybe I forgot some part. So P Zero is the main line for our dry performance and high value tires. If I remember well, the weight of high value is above 75%. 75%. So it's not everything at P Zero, because there is also some winter, but let's say to give you a feeling, is all the tires that goes on the premium and prestige cars for the UHP. Then about the materials, how we are going to get them, we have designed together with R&D, a roadmap of all the materials to arrive to this target, so to the 70% and the 80%, and so on. So we more or less know which are the materials.

We are working with suppliers to identify and to make investment on their side where is needed on the on this new materials and the availability of this stock for this new materials. Is not something that is available right now, but by 2040, we have a roadmap with that is linked with the investment of our suppliers. So let's say we are quite confident that we can have those supply at also not just in terms of availability, but also with a cost that is comparable with the cost of the materials not sustainable that we are using now.

Speaker 5

The other question is FSC outside the Europe, and then scope three reduction levels.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Okay. FSC outside Europe, so we said that by 2026, we want to cover 100% of the European production, and then, enlarging to the factories that are supplying, let's say Europe in terms of tires or in terms of other materials, afterwards, and then to arrive also to cover all the world. We don't have yet a year about that, because this is linked on the capacity of the supplier to then certify themselves FSC, and the, to the enlargement of, of this, of this supplier. But, I, I think that, is, is something that, with the next plan we can, we can foresee and, and include also for the rest of the world. Sorry, last one?

Speaker 5

Scope 3 reduction.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Okay. Scope 3 reduction. Scope 3 reduction is mainly linked to four big action and activity. The first one is engagement. We already started that two years ago to engage with all the supplier. And to give you those, also a rough number, we have more or less 30 suppliers that makes more than 80% of our emission base. We have engaged with those with those people. Engaging means also asking them to set the SBTi target also themselves, like we are doing, and to start using all the best practice, like renewable electricity and renewable energy to the production and so on. So step one, engagement.

Step two, redesigning also the sourcing map about this, the supplier in order to reduce also the logistics, and so to become more local per local in our supply chain, to reduce the part of Scope 3 that is linked to the inbound logistics. And this is what will bring us to the minus 30% at 2030. Then to make the other big step is instead the changing materials. So, after that, we have to change materials from fossil origin to non-fossil origin, and using raw materials that are with the emission factor that is a lot lower than the ones that we are using now.

Speaker 5

Thank you very much.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Thank you.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

I'm just gonna ask a follow-up on that, and then we have another question on the line. Do you have the kind of key technologies that will allow you to reduce kind of your Scope 1 emissions? I've heard a lot about electric... I think it's called electric curing, as opposed to steam curing.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yep. Yeah, this is the main project that we set to reduce Scope 1 and 2. Basically, as it is now, our emissions are coming, I mean, 50% from electricity and 50% from steam. Steam is used in our curing processes, that are the one that press the tires and make it available. We are completely changing the technology. So after 150 years, these steam technology of presses, we are phasing out, and we are phasing in new electric curing machines, in order to then use electricity instead of steam. When we are using electricity, we can then use renewable electricity coming from renewable sources, and so to reduce our emission.

Not just that, but there is an incredible advantage in terms of energy saving, because our electric curing presses is consuming 80% less than a steam curing presses. So we'd also are saving in terms of money, of the energy that we are using. So this is a project with EUR 22 million per year of investment from now up until 2030, to change all the more or less 2,000 presses that we have around the world.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Mm-hmm. That's great, thanks. We have a question from Sarah. I will just see if I can ask to unmute. You should... Yep, go ahead. Oop, we can't hear you. I see your hand has gone down. See your hand's up. I see where you muted, unmuted, but we don't have sound at the moment. Maybe we can try again, eh, after the next question, and if that doesn't work, you can email through.

Luke Sussams
Head of Sustainability and Transition Strategy, Jefferies

Email, yeah, exactly.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Luke, did you have next one, or do you want me to go?

Luke Sussams
Head of Sustainability and Transition Strategy, Jefferies

You can go on this one. Yeah, go, go ahead with the next one you have.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Okay, and the next one I have is, you know, you have a very fragmented supply chain from the question. How do you ensure raw materials traceability in that kind of operating environment?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah. It is quite, I would say... I wouldn't say it's fragmented everywhere. We do have a supply chain that is quite difficult to manage, like the one of the natural rubber, that is very fragmented, because it's coming from the single tree of the single,

Aldo Perrone
Investor Relations Officer, Pirelli

Lot of land.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Lots of land up to seven steps that we have. We do have some critical chemical materials that is saying that we trace and track constantly, but then we have also some bulk, like carbon black or synthetic rubber that is a direct product coming from the petrochemical industry. That is a very short supply chain. But for the critical one, how do we manage? I think that in terms of natural rubber, everything related to EUDR and FSC is linked to this monitoring. I mean, with FSC, we already started to have a complete tracking of the supply chain of the natural rubber from the origin up until inside the factory, and up until to our customer, because then we have to, we need to track them.

We are using all the technology and the digital technology that is supporting this. And linked with that, we have also a complex system of relationship with our supplier, with a yearly also assessment of their practices and ESG practices that is assuring the compliance of all the materials and all those type of supply chains.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Mm-hmm. Luke, we'll try Sarah again, and if it works, I've got a follow-up on EUDR. Sarah, do you wanna see if that is working now? No, it doesn't seem to be. We can't hear you, unfortunately. My email is Maspinall@ jefferies.com, M and and my surname. If you send it through, I can ask; otherwise, if you keep your hand up, I'm happy to try again. On EUDR, you mentioned that it's kind of coming in at the end of the year. It's not my expertise, but I think that's what you mentioned. How do you expect that? Are you guys ready for that? How is that gonna impact the business kind of at the end of the year, six months away?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

We have to be ready because, I mean, after January `1st, nobody can, let's say, place rubber and tires on the market without being ready for the EUDR. So, yeah, it's still, it's several months that we are working on, and we will be ready by that, the time. It's still a big, let's say, political terms, confusions, not just for us, but I think for all the commodities that are linked to the EUDR. Because the rules, the systems, everything is not yet ready to be used and checked. We'll be ready just at the end of the year, so we will know if all our activities are complying with the rules just two months before starting that. But having said that, I mean, we, we will be...

We will have all the materials compliant with the due diligence regulation that are asked from the regulation. There will be, let's say, I think some movement on the market due to the fact that especially tires can be anticipated before the end of the year, and then they will have, say, maybe a shortfall in imports by the beginning of next year.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Mm-hmm. A follow-up: How much support do you get from your OE customers on the kind of natural rubber traceability or the kind of EUDR regulations?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah. I mean, we did the work with OEMs, but generally speaking, with a lot of stakeholders up and down our value chain on the platform of GPSNR, and on other platform, like an example, our project of FSC for BMW was an example of activity done on that platform to create a sustainable solution for supply chain. I would say that now that we are in the implementing phase, every actor is working by its own in parallel, because timing is short, and I mean, the platform at this moment are a little bit out of the real game.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Mm-hmm. We'll try Sarah once more. Sarah, I'm gonna hit ask to unmute and see if that works. No, it doesn't seem to be. We might have to put you in contact with Matteo and his team afterwards, and you can ask your question directly. Just thinking about circularity, what are the kind of key... kinda key barriers to overcome in the next few years to kind of move towards that circularity and recycling of the product?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

More than barriers, there are only opportunities in the next years because, since now, given the fact that, I mean, especially in Europe, end-of-life tires has been collected and recovered in different way at a level of 95%. So, I mean, almost everything that is put at the end of the life has been used for something. But, it has been used and is being used for recovery of energy or for down cycling of the product. So to make, let's say, rubber goods, for buildings, construction, and so on. Now, the real challenge is to reuse and to recover the material, and to recover materials at the level that can be reused as bio chain materials inside the tire itself.

You know, and the pyrolysis technology that is being mature in this period, this day, is a good opportunity to then recover the end-of-life tires for recycled carbon black or for tire pyrolysis oil that can then reuse on the chemical industry to recreate synthetic rubber and so on. So there is a lot of activities and work on this, and I think we are watching them, we are cooperating on these tables.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

I don't think I knew that you mentioned 95% of the materials are being recovered and recycled into other uses?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yes.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Yeah.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

95% of tires, end of life, are collected, then out of this, 50%, more or less 50% is used for the cement industry as energy recovery, so to burn together with cement, and 50% is recovered in another kind of product.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Mm-hmm. And last one I think we have time for, that's been emailed in is: Who are the suppliers that make the tire materials recyclable? So the kind of the inputs into recyclable, the recyclable materials.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah. I think the raw material in a tire are quite simple. As I said, natural rubber, that is a bio-derived material. Synthetic rubber, carbon black, then you have textile and steel, basically, and then some chemicals on it. So, are all, let's say, basic materials and everybody is doing the same basic. The real question is the technology that is at the end of the process that can reutilize this product and make it recyclable. It's not just a matter of making it at the beginning.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Okay. And follow-up, are there cost incentives in using recyclable material, or if not cost incentives, are customers willing to pay for more recycled products at the moment?

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah. Cost incentive, I would say no or not enough. There should be a lot more, both in terms of incentive and in terms of also of regulation to be able to then make it this business of recycling in also more attractive. Customer are willing to pay? Yes, because the concept of recycled and material is reducing the Scope 3 emissions. So every customer that has that want to use and to reduce their Scope 3 emission, wants these materials inside. And so the one that are asking for the OEMs, so that as we are doing, they have their SBTi target to respect.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Mm-hmm. And do you have 2 more minutes or maybe 3 more minutes? I've just got Sarah has been able to email a question through. I'll just read that, and then we can finish after that.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Absolutely, yes.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Excellent. So the question is the following: What about Pirelli Scope 3 downstream emissions from the use phase once on the cars and the end of life/recycling/burning? Are these currently counted into the total absolute emissions? And I'll just read the, the next bit. A big emphasis is made on the upstream aspect, however, this downstream proportion is significant for tire manufacturers, and just interested in where that's being counted.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah. I give you the technical answer. The GHG Protocol for the tire industry is asking Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 upstream, or in terms of downstream, just the portion of the end-of-life tire, but not the in-use phase. The in-use phase is the Scope 3 of the car manufacturer, so it's counted on the emissions of the car manufacturer. For the sake of transparency, we do publish every year, and in all our communication, all our emissions related to the use of tires. But due to the fact that it's not the tire that emit, but it's the car that emit with that tires, is an issue, let's say, for the car manufacturer.

Let's say it's an issue, not to say that we don't care, because it's the most important things that we care about. Because as tire manufacturer, our customer, we have to develop tires that help them in reducing their emissions. So the fact that when I presented P Zero E, the A-class of rolling resistance means that as low as the rolling resistance of tires, as reduce are the Scope 3 emissions in use and the Scope 3 emissions of our customer. Our tires count more or less 20% of the other emission of a car, and is linked to this rolling resistance topic that is ten the quantity of CO2 that you read in the advertisement of each car.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Okay. So it sounds like Scope 3 for you does include the end-of-life recycling and burning.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Yeah.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

It just doesn't include the whilst in use.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Correct.

Michael Aspinall
Equity Research Analyst, Jefferies

Okay, that's useful. If anyone has any follow-up questions for the team, please feel free to get in contact with us or with the team directly. I'm sure you have Aldo's information. Thank you very much for joining. Thank you, Matteo, for running through everything. Really appreciate it.

Matteo Battaini
Chief Sustainability and Future Mobility Officer, Pirelli

Thank you very much.

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