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Tipler Reinforces Profitability at Fenatran 2011.
Vipal Benefits Students Through a Social Responsibility Program
Tipler exhibited at the Fenatran show in São Paulo with its entire line of products and services that consolidate the company as one of the leading experts in the Brazilian retread sector. The company also conducted an assessment of the innovations it has made in the last two years to highlight the key differentiators of the brand. The company's expertise over the years has helped to create a system that ensures greater retreading performance, longer shelf-life and more cost-effective operations," explains the president of Tipler, Sergio Bica. Tipler offers premium products to the market, developed from years’ of research, testing, and lots of technology to meet the different needs in the transport of cargo and passengers. The company has developed new rubber compounds in the last three years, which has given rise to high performance and high value added treads:
Performance: the choice of who goes further. Unbeatable performance, a result of advances in optimisation of depth, design, compounds and vulcanisation process, combined with a unique composite of
high performance geometry and patterns specific to Tipler treads.
Ecomais: is the line of Tipler treads that claims to reduce fuel consumption by up to 12 per cent. Fuel economy is a result of optimisation of the pattern, depth of groove, rubber compound and vulcanising process, which reduce rolling resistance, requiring less effort to move the vehicle.
Extra: a tread that works on any terrain. This line is specifically for use in extreme traffic conditions. Provides longer life tyres, higher abrasion resistance, puncture resistance and more efficient expulsion of foreign bodies from the tread and a higher transfer of power.
Tipler recently launched over 15 new tread designs, which added to the existing offer, completing the mix of solutions for many different applications, always focusing on generating better performance, economy and increased profitability for fleets. Among the latest releases are the bands RDT71, RT33, RT35, RT36, RT37, RT39, RT51, rt61, RT62, RT74, RT75, RT76, RT85..
The Good Student Project is part of the Vipal Social Institute (VIS) and has served nearly one hundred students with issues related to ethics, citizenship, human rights, economic development and social inclusion. Vipal, the Brazilian retread leader and one of the most important manufacturers of products for retreading and repairing tyres and tubes, is also one of the most active in social responsibility.
Vipal, has, since its inception been developing projects such as the Good Student Project, with the environment in mind, Through this program, which integrates with VIS, the company benefits students of the community of Nova Prata, in Rio Grande do Sul State. The goal is to promote the development of good students from low-income families, through educational development and professional tutoring. Participants learn in schools that believe in the transforming action of the program. In addition, they have the support of extracurricular activities that promote the acquisition of basic concepts such as learning at least two foreign languages, development of personal skills, setting life goals, practice teamwork and training in relation to human values. Students begin the project from the 5th or 6th grade of elementary school and are selected from public schools, and may participate through to higher education.
In college, the focus is on individual projects, career plans and on social action. The result is a generation of students who make a difference, as people who receive more extensive training are able to gain the best opportunities in the labour market. One of the success stories is Fernanda Romanzini, who graduated in Industrial Engineering and is currently pursuing a master's degree from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre (RS). In addition, Fernanda is also a partner in the BR Plastics Holdings Group company Vipal.
Another example is the Edson
da Silva Telles, 22, who graduated from the Mechanical Engineering course at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), the city of Rio Grande (RS). Edson was selected by Good Student while he was the 5th grade and will be the second member of the project to take shape.
To be eligible, candidates have to meet the programme criteria: attend public school, have a low income, be well behaved, have family support, interest, discipline, a minimum of 90 per cent attendance and good performance (70 as the minimum grade in all subjects), both to enter and to remain in the project.
The future professional explains that it took many long years of hard study, dedication and willpower: Effort that will begin to be rewarded from the date of graduation). "No one grows in life without opportunities. It has been no different with me, so I will be eternally grateful to Vipal’s Good Student mentor, Arlindo Paludo, for helping me to get here, "he says. Edson reinforces that the support of program staff and family were paramount.
The project members receive benefits such as school supplies, books, uniforms, transportation vouchers, private schooling through scholarship and courses in English and Italian. The Good Student beneficiaries also receive support in computer courses and additional courses aimed at personal development, as usual in the studies, living reading and writing, and tutoring in Portuguese and mathematics. Started in 2000, the program has reached out to almost one hundred students, and 39 are already in higher education. Of these, 25 are studying in
public universities and 14 in particular through the University for All programme (ProUni). In 2007, to coordinate the many projects Vipal, created the Vipal Social Institute (VIS). The task of VIS is to promote human development through the understanding of social demands and to improve the quality of life.
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