PPG Industries’ aerospace transparencies group is designing windshields for the KC-390 military transport aircraft that will be the largest glass windshields PPG has produced and the industry’s first to have a compound bent ...
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PPG Industries' commercial coatings group held its semiannual Commercial Truck Shop Conference Sept. 21-23 in conjunction with the 2014 fall PPG MVP Business Solutions Conference at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Conference Center in ...
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PPG Industries' packaging coatings business has announced that INNOVEL HPS coatings, the next generation of internal protective spray lacquers for the beverage can industry, has been approved for use on aluminum and steel beverage cans. ...
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PPG Industries' North American architectural coatings business has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Westmoreland Supply, an independent architectural paint distributor headquartered in Pittsburgh. The transaction is expected to ...
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GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth more than RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 Mn Tons. The study finds that growth in 2013 was only 2.8 percent, ...
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PPG Industries and Henan Billions Chemical Co., Ltd., have held a ceremony to mark the completion of Henan Billions’ titanium dioxide (TiO2) manufacturing and research facility in the Henan Province of China. Scheduled to begin ...
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The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $5,000 to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) for its Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable (WISER) program. The funding, on behalf of PPG Industries’ automotive coatings facilities ...
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PPG Industries reported third quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.94 billion, up $161 million, or 4 percent, versus the prior year. Third quarter 2014 reported net income from continuing operations was $377 million, or ...
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PPG Industries’ coil and building products coatings group has launched DURANAR ADS (air-dried system) fluoropolymer coating, a newly-formulated product that surpasses the performance of the original Duranar ADS coating. The ...
PPG Industries' coil and building products group has published the Building Products Coil Coatings Color Guide, an eight-page brochure featuring 100 coatings color samples categorized according to eight product lines and five resin ...
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PPG Industries has posted a new video about the benefits of designing with reflective glass in the PPG Glass Education Center, a comprehensive website that helps architects, specifiers, students and construction industry professionals learn ...
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Argex Titanium, Inc., a producer of high-grade titanium dioxide (TiO2) used as white pigment in paint, plastic, paper, cosmetics and other applications, has been selected as a major sponsor of the 2014 TiO2 World Summit being held in ...
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PPG Industries’industrial coatings business has introduced POWERCRON ADVANTEDGE electrocoats (e-coats), a line of next-generation, high-edge cationic-epoxy products for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) markets. Powercron ...
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PPG Industries' protective and marine coatings business is fulfilling growing demand for "ice class" marine coatings for hull protection with SIGMASHIELD 1200 coating. Developed from research conducted in PPG's own facilities, SIGMASHIELD ...
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PPG Industries' automotive refinish business has launched P190-6930 Performance Clearcoat. The new 2.1 clearcoat is intended specifically for use with waterborne AQUABASE® Plus basecoat by PPG. It is designed for high-production ...
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