The Michelin plant in Cuneo, the beating heart of the French group’s activities in Italy with 2,200 employees and almost 11 million tires produced in the last year, is sixty years old. In 1963 the Clermont-Ferrand company opened the first of its production plants abroad in the Cuneo district of Ronchi. In six decades the plant has grown to earn the nickname of “Usine Excellente”, or one of the centers in which new technologies are tested and developed, before large-scale industrialization in the 67 production plants around the world.
The sixtieth birthday will be an opportunity to give further impetus to technological development with the launch of the innovation laboratory, set up together with the CIM4.0 Competence Center in Turin and Confindustria Cuneo. Numerous appointments have been announced by the plant manager Simone Rossi, especially in the sports arena, where the company will make use of the experience of the Michelin Sport Club. A series of events dedicated to personnel are planned inside the factory: open doors, from April to October, for visits organized with families, the Gami (Michelin Italy Seniors Group) and local schools. “A social phenomenon has arisen around Michelin which has seen people move from the mountains to a purely agricultural area” recalled the mayor of Cuneo Patrizia Manassero who recalled the engineer Édouard Michelin, who died at the age of only 42 in 2006, at the which the city has awarded honorary citizenship. From the provincial president of Confindustria Mauro Gola best wishes to a company that “in these sixty years has contributed not only to economic development but to the progress of the territory”.
Source: Ansa
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