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Giovanni Battista Pirelli

Italian industrialist

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contribution to rubber industry

In Pirelli Family
Giovanni Battista Pirelli (b. Dec. 27, 1848, Varenna, Como, Austrian Empire [Italy]—d. Oct. 20, 1932, Milan, Italy) was educated in Milan, and it was there in 1872 that he started a small rubber factory, the first in Italy and one of the first in all…
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founding of Pirelli SpA

In Pirelli SpA
…was founded in 1872 by Giovanni Battista Pirelli. He started a small rubber factory in Milan that year and went on to produce insulated telegraph cables, bicycle tires, and automobile tires (from 1900). The company opened new factories in Italy and abroad as demand for its tires, cables, and transmission…
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