4 _197 2023 UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT_MICHELIN 4 NON-FINANCIAL STATEMENT Sustainable Development Report PARTICULATE EMISSIONS ARE BEING REDUCED WITH EACH NEW RANGE DEKRA studies in 2020 (MARK20B, MARK20E) and 2021 (MARK21E). In 2022, the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC) updated its comprehensive study on determining whether tires with lower TRWP emissions are less safe, by measuring tire abrasion from around 100 tire models of different sizes and comparing the releases to the results of braking distance tests on dry, wet and, for winter tires, snowy roads. Analysis of the ADAC results shows that MICHELIN often ranked first as the brand releasing the fewest particles per kilometer, on average, among all the tires tested, while still delivering excellent performance in the safety-relevant categories. TRWP EMISSIONS: MICHELIN VS. OTHER PREMIUM TIREMAKERS Source: ADAC Tyre test: Tyre abrasion – On road tests, April 2022 To coordinate its TRWP initiatives more effectively, both internally and with such outside ecosystems as the tire industry and regulatory agencies, and to drive further progress in significantly reducing these emissions and improving their bio-assimilability, in 2023 Michelin rolled out a specific TRWP program, with dedicated resources and a management team reporting to the Environmental Governance body. In conclusion, Michelin remains highly engaged, both internally and with its ecosystems, in reducing TRWP emissions by: ● leading or monitoring research to improve our knowledge of the fate of TRWPs through biodegradation, their pathways in the various environmental compartments and their potential impacts; ● helping to pass new legislation to raise the standards for tires brought to market; ● innovating in performance tradeoffs by developing new technologies to reduce tire abrasion and incorporate bioassimilable materials; ● leading results-oriented initiatives with the tire industry and the ecosystems to abate TRWP dispersal. Reuse Solutions such as repairing, regrooving and retreading tires help to conserve raw materials because they extend a casing’s useful life and use less raw material compared to manufacturing a new tire. The Group is extending these solutions to Truck, Aircraft and Earthmover tires. MICHELIN Truck tires can be regrooved when the tread is worn, then mold-cure retreaded using the Remix process or pre-cure retreaded and regrooved a second time before the components are reused in end-of-life tire recovery solutions. For example, assuming the tire has a theoretical lifespan of 100,000 km, regrooving can add 25,000 km without any additional material. Retreading can then add a further 100,000 km using four times less raw material than it takes to make a new tire. Lastly, the final regrooving increases total tread life by another 25,000 km. MICHELIN MICHELIN CrossClimate 2 MICHELIN Pilot Sport 5 -20% e.Primacy vs MICHELIN Primacy 4 vs MICHELIN CrossClimate + vs MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4 -13% -20% Premium competitors average 95 115 107 131 136 128 MICHELIN Per vehicle Unit: g/1,000km
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