PPG Industries announced several executive appointments that are effective Aug. 1: Frank S. Sklarsky, executive vice president, finance, will be appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer, as previously announced, and ...
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PPG Industries reported record second quarter net sales in 2013 of $4.1 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year. Second quarter 2013 reported net income from continuing operations was $341 million, or $2.35 per diluted share. Adjusted ...
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PPG Industries has received a patent for a substrate comprised of aluminum at least partially coated with a primer coating comprised of a thermoset film-forming resin comprised of a polyamine and an epoxy functional polymer; and magnesium ...
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PPG Industries reported record second quarter net sales in 2013 of $4.1 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year, according to a PPG press release. “We achieved new sales and adjusted earnings records due to the continued strong ...
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PPG Industries reported record second-quarter net sales in 2013 of $4.1 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year, but company glass sales dipped in what chairman and chief executive officer Charles E. Bunch calls a ...
The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $15,000 to Stark State College for its Barberton, Ohio, Satellite Center. A $10,000 grant this year and a $5,000 donation in 2012 were made on behalf of PPG Industries’ optical and specialty ...
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PPG Industries chairman and CEO Charles E. Bunch has been tabbed as the recipient of The ICIS Kavaler Award in recognition of outstanding achievement, according to a PPG release. The award, which is sponsored by the Chemists' Club, will ...
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PPG Glass eVIEW is a multifunctional suite of Web-based tools that enables architects, glazing contractors, glass fabricators and other building professionals to search, construct, view and compare virtual glazing configurations in three ...
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PPG Industries in Argentina recently celebrated the consolidation of operations at its coatings manufacturing complex in Pilar. Approxiamtely 170 people attended an event, including key customers, government officials, employees and major ...
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PPG Industries' automotive OEM coatings business in China recently earned the 2012 AAA Green Partner award from FAW-Volkswagen (FVW). Zhang Peijie, general manager of FVW, presented the trophy to Yang Weihua, PPG general manager for ...
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PPG Industries' industrial coatings business has expanded its social media initiative so that it can share news and interact more effectively with customers via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Sharon Bird, PPG marketing communications ...
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The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $15,000 to the Air Force Museum Foundation for construction of a fourth major building at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, ...
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PPG Industries' automotive refinish business has added Ditzler Hot Rod Black topcoat to the popular Vibrance Collection product line. The new PPG topcoat provides a uniform, low gloss and deep-looking black finish designed to replicate the ...
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A common set of standards for LED lighting firms in Greater China was announced recently and as the China government plans to expand the LED lighting market, this common set of standards can help Taiwan-based firms enter the China market. ...
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The U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program has awarded $1.071 million to PPG Industries' Allison Park, Pennsylvania, Coatings Innovation Center (CIC) to help develop non-isocyanate liquid ...