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June 10, 2002
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Chris Davis
Director of Marketing & Public Relations
706.295.6930 Direct
706.295.6929 Fax
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| Coosa Valley Technical College Enters Agreement with Pirelli |
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Rome, GA - June 10, 2002 –- At a ceremony to be held this evening at the Coosa Country Club, Coosa Valley Technical College will formalize its agreement to provide training services to Pirelli Tire through the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education’s Quick Start program. Quick Start is an economic development incentive designed to encourage companies to create new jobs for Georgians. The program has been operating since 1967. During that time, Quick Start has trained more than 390,000 employees for more than 3,700 different companies.
Quick Start’s pledge of support for Pirelli was an important part of the company’s decision to locate their new 400,000 square foot facility in the Floyd County Industrial Park. When it opened in April 2002, the $140 million facility became the North American headquarters for Pirelli’s corporate staff, research & development center, and MIRS manufacturing operations. MIRS, which stands for Modular Integrated Robotized System, is a revolutionary process that reduces the conventional 14-step manufacturing process into three steps and produces a new tire every three minutes. Pirelli holds 100 patents on the MIRS process, which “allows us to design a tire in Italy, send the software over the Internet, and produce the tire elsewhere,” said Guellomo Ficchio, Managing Director of Pirelli’s worldwide performance tire division.
To maximize the success of their new high-performance process, Pirelli sought high-performance support. They found that in Georgia’s Quick Start Training Program. During the summer of 2001, Quick Start assembled a team to study the new process and assess the new the company’s overall training needs. Quick Start subsequently agreed to provide a wide range of consultation and customized training services for everybody from Pirelli’s manufacturing workers to their executive staff. To date, Quick Start has delivered over 1,872 manufacturing trainee hours and 450 headquarter staff trainee hours to Pirelli, which has thus far hired just a fraction of the 305 people that the facility will eventually be employed at the facility. All of this training was provided at no charge, as part of Quick Start’s incentive agreement with Pirelli.
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