PPG Industries News

PPG Industries Inc. has agreed to sell a controlling stake in its automotive glass business to a new company formed by investment firm Kohlberg & Co.

PPG Industries Inc., a paint and chemical maker, said Tuesday it will divest its auto glass and services business to a new company formed by private-equity firm Kohlberg & Co.

Halliburton announced today that it has provided notice to holders of its 3 1/8% Convertible Senior Notes due July 15, 2023, as required by the indenture - PHILADELPHIA-- --Houghton International Inc., a global ...

PPG Industries has been named the coatings supplier for the new Meiller-Dogus plant located in Sakarya, Turkey, which will produce tippers and trailers for the heavy-duty truck market.

PPG Industries' industrial coatings business has published a new guide specification for its liquid and powder coil and extrusion coatings.

"We are very pleased to receive support from PPG for the establishment of our permanent distribution center," said Cherie Jamason, president and chief executive officer, Food Bank of Northern Nevada .

In 1979, Wagner joined PPG as a production employee at the Delaware, Ohio, coatings facility.

Funding supports expansion of Kids Cafe childhood hunger program PPG Industries Foundation has donated $6,000 to the Wichita Falls Area Food Bank to help expand its Kids Cafe childhood hunger program in Wichita ...

NPCA Honors Rawlins, 6 Others The National Paint and Coatings Association and the Vincentz Network have presented Dr.

PPG Industries declared a system-wide force majeure on all grades of liquid caustic soda in North America, effective June 20, according to a letter obtained by Platts Monday.

For a company whose specialty at one time was plate glass, PPG Industries Inc. has gone pretty far afield.

A. Duie Pyle, a leading Northeast transportation and logistics provider, received PPG Industries' Excellent Supplier Award for superior accomplishments in 2007.

PPG Industries , citing higher raw material, energy and transportation costs, announced a price increase of up to 20 percent for all its precipitated silica products, including Hi-Sil silicas and Lo-Vel ...

PPG's CEO Receives NPCA's Heckel Award During the Chairman's Dinner of the National Paint and Coatings Association on June 2 in Charlotte, NC, NPCA President Andy Doyle presented Charles E. Bunch, chairman and ...

PPG Industries recently conducted a survey of 1,000 recreational water park patrons and found that the personal hygiene habits of patrons can adversely affect water quality and safety, according to a June 11 ...

PPG Industries Inc. said Thursday it will raise prices for consumer paints in an effort to offset increased material costs.

PPG Names Wagner General Manager, Industrial Coatings, Americas PPG Industries has announced the appointment of Gregory C. Wagner to the position of general manager, industrial coatings, Americas, effective May ...

The LaFontaine Automotive Group, Highland, MI, has converted from using a solvent-based system for vehicle paint repairs to using Envirobase High Performance waterborne basecoat by PPG Industries' automotive ...

Summer Science Nation will be offered 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. July 8-10 at Carlow University's Oakland campus.

A longtime former PPG Industries engineer has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of racial and age discrimination and is seeking to have the suit certified as class action.