Annual Report 2017
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Annual Report 2017 Moving innovation that cares Annual Report 2017 Table of contents Moving innovation that cares Achievements p08 • Competitiveness and internal market p08 • Tyre Aware p09 • Resource Efficiency p10 ETRMA-European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association • Sustainability p11 Avenue des Arts 2, box 12 B-1210 Brussels Tel. +32 2 218 49 40 [email protected] Fotos: Fotolia.com Design: inextremis.be mp5605 www.etrma.org Foreword p4 Foreword p6 Christian Kötz Fazilet Cinaralp ETRMA ETRMA President Secretary General Competitiveness p12 Committed to sustainability p17 Annual Report 2017 • European industrial policy p13 • Tyre circular economy p18 Moving innovation • Global competitiveness p14 • Management of materials and substances p20 • Enforcement and market surveillance p15 • Sustainable mobility p22 that cares • Drinking water contact materials p16 • End of Life Tyre management p26 Members‘ overview p30 Foreword If I had to describe our industry in a few words, I would really say that it is guided not just by innovation, but by an innovation that cares - for the environment it works in, the people that it works for and to contribute to a sustainable future.” Christian Kötz ETRMA President 4 ETRMA- Annual Report 2016-2017 The tyre and rubber industry is omnipresent in our everyday life. It is there every step of the way, moving our lives and our world and aiming at an ever-increased safety and sustainability in every sense of the word. It is there from our first coffee of the morning, of the industry is that European production is that will be needed in the future will also be greatly whenever we use any type of transport, when we strictly scrutinised around the world for compliance influenced by the growing servitisation of transport speak with our mobile phones, use our computers, go with local rules, whilst the EU is still to activate and by the automation of vehicles, as data will to hospitals, take care of our children. a continuous and effective market surveillance become a new and fundamental ingredient to deliver mechanism. For this reason, ETRMA was particularly safe and sustainable mobility also through tyres. It is indeed a moving industry, constantly innovating pleased that Member States took up the initiative of and caring for the people that produce and use its conducting the first market surveillance authorities’ The rubber industry needs to be helped through a products. joint action on tyre label compliance, co-ordinated by better functioning internal market. This is especially PROSAFE. true for elastomers in contact with drinking water, for With 5% of its turnover invested in research and which a real internal market is yet to come. innovation, the industry is preparing for the changes Market uptake is another of such issues: whilst the that are re-shaping European mobility with a industry has kept moving and developing, the choices In a time of rapid changes, our industry has shown shift towards connected mobility and the sharing of the market are still dictated by “old-fashioned” that it is able to strive by anticipating the challenges economy. mechanisms and, especially, by price considerations. and by living up to them, adapting and always being This is a great challenge and shows the need to part of the solution. The European tyre industry - the most and the earliest demonstrating the value of these innovations, regulated area in the automotive sector - is surely creating consumers acceptance and interest and This work is facilitated also by the activities of able and willing to accept any new mobility challenge finally better informing their choice. This is the joint ETRMA and I would like to thank all the members in the mid- to long-term. However, the sector is very responsibility of the industry and the legislative of the Association and its secretariat for their sensitive to solutions to the current issues “prior” to bodies and therefore a high priority of the work within commitment and high level of ambition in upholding going forward. ETRMA. the interests of the industry. These include, first and foremost, the need for The skills needed to develop and produce such effective enforcement and market surveillance of the tyres have also changed and continue to do so by a existing regulations as well as the creation of a level further specialisation and by going through a process playing field in Europe and internationally. This means of hybridisation, in which mechanical, chemical, ensuring that all players in the market are subject to electronics, digital and soft skills are increasingly and respect the same rules. However, the experience mixed and required. The kind of skills and tyres ETRMA- Annual Report 2016-2017 5 Foreword One challenge for the industry remains that of reaching out to drivers to make sure that they understand and act upon the consequences of their behaviour vis-a-vis their tyres as this affects the safety of their vehicle and the environment.” Fazilet Cinaralp ETRMA Secretary General 6 ETRMA- Annual Report 2016-2017 Our industry’s efforts are geared into two directions: towards sustainability – the reduction of CO2 emissions while improving tyre safety and preserving industry competitiveness – and towards connectivity. The scope of the ETRMA’s work has expanded over This work is based on and supported by economic, Finally, one challenge for the industry remains the years as have the competencies and areas of technical and scientific studies, which, together that of reaching out to drivers to make sure that intervention of the European Institutions. with academia and other industry and non-industry they understand and act upon the consequences stakeholders, has been carried out to deepen the of their behaviour vis-a-vis their tyres as this European Emission Trading System, Vehicle Type knowledge of our products and their effect on both affects the safety of their vehicle and the Approval and Market Surveillance, Low Emission health and environment. This activity will remain environment. To this end, ETRMA has developed Mobility, Decarbonisation of the Transport essential to empower our industry to contribute and launched a pan-European campaign informing Sector, Drinking Water, REACH, Circular Economy, meaningfully to the legislative developments that are on how to best choose and maintain the tyres. A Digitalisation and Connectivity are only a few of the to come, as well as to anticipate the impact of future microsite has been created to store all this valuable many regulatory files on which ETRMA has been initiatives on the industry. material at www.tyreaware.org. working in the past eighteen months. Another success factor of the Association has been Last but not least, ETRMA owes its growing These are all important regulatory building blocks its ability to work with its partners in Europe and importance to its members whose contribution, which will contribute to shape the tyre and rubber world-wide. Exchanging best practices and co- information and involvement is at the heart of its industry of today and tomorrow, influencing its operating to develop the best possible regulatory very existence. To further facilitate this exchange, a societal and environmental footprint as well as its environment for consumers, drivers and industry new and revived member section has been launched, position and competitiveness in the world. is essential to support the efforts and investments equipping the team and the members with a new and made by the industry to constantly innovate and better tool to work together. produce better and more performing products. ETRMA- Annual Report 2016-2017 7 Achievements 1 Competitiveness and internal market ETRMA is a key player in the automotive value ETRMA is a founding member of the ”European Sector Progress was achieved in removing some of the chain. As such — and in coherence with the work Skills Council for the Automotive Industry” (EASC), barriers to trade built by important trading partners of CARS21 — ETRMA has been called to contribute funded by DG Employment. The Council published in of the EU, such as Thailand and Tunisia. This was as an independent player in the GEAR 2030 High February 2016 its Report, suggesting how to address made possible by the close cooperation between Level Group, launched by the European Commission and close the skills’ gaps in the Automotive industry. the industry and the European Commission, which in January 2016. The High-Level Group will provide These recommendations have is always receptive to the needs of the industry and a strategic assessment and recommendations been taken into consideration ready to act both multilaterally and bilaterally. to reinforce the competitiveness of the European by the GEAR 2030 High-Level automotive value chain. Group. After more than ten years of work, ETRMA is the closest it has ever been to achieving an internal market for elastomers in contact with drinking ETRMA participates in the ADCO (ADministrative water. The European rubber industry supported COoperation) on Tyre Labelling. There, Member the Commission’s ongoing work on the revision of States are represented by respective Market the “Drinking Water Directive” with the objective of Surveillance Authorities aiming at optimising the reaching an EU-harmonised legally binding positive list implementation and market surveillance of the of substances allowed in the production of elastomer Regulation on the labelling of tyres, thereby ensuring material in contact with drinking water, as well as product compliance and a level playing field. Thanks EU-harmonised acceptance criteria and their related to this work, the Market Surveillance Action on legally binding test methods for such products. Tyres 2015 (MStyr15) was launched in April 2016 by PROSAFE and it will last until 2018. It coordinates Group photo of the Members of the High Level Group of the activities of 15 market surveillance authorities the European Commission, lead by Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship from the EU and Turkey and will look at ensuring that and SMEs.