The groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant of Pirelli in Mexico has been recently.
The plant, to be put into operation in 2017, is designed to produce high-performance tyres for passenger cars and super-high-performance tyres and will produce 2.5 million tyres per year.
Pirelli also plans to build a warehouse of 9,000 square meters. So far, it has invested USD 360 million in the new plant. By the end of 2018, the total investment will exceed USD 600 million as planned.
According to Pirelli, by 2018, the new plant will help bring its total production capacity of tyres in Mexico to 7.5 million per year.