Did you know that Pirelli have a manufacturing facility in the UK? Find out more about why it’s important for their strategy to have their tyres made locally.
[Music] Today we’re here at the Pirelli manufacturing facility in Carlilele. Ross, what’s the significance of this location? Basically, it’s uh been maintained by PLI to keep a local for local strategy in the UK. So, we’ve got a a tire manufacturing facility in the local market. We’ve got customers such as JLR and Bentley that are are really keen to keep the tires local for local manufactured. So, that’s why we’re here. And I understand that this is now the the only tire manufacturing facility left in the UK. Yeah, we’re the only ones here and we’re really proud to be the only ones here left in the UK. So much so that uh we’ve added a mark into our tires here that says made in Great Britain. So you know that the PL tire has come from this manufacturing facility. [Music]