10 Jul 2006
PPG and GM Win PACE Award for Color Specific Automotive Primer
(July 10th, 2006--Shanghai, China)PPG has earned its fifth PACE Award in six years for its collaboration with General Motors on the development of an environmentally friendly, color-specific powder primer.
The joint award for PPG and GM was one of only two collaborative PACE Awards presented in ceremonies held in Detroit in April.
According to Rick Tansey, technical manager, PPG, the color-specific powder primer has a high-gloss finish and is tinted to match a vehicle's paint color. It provides a finished look for hard-to-paint areas such as inner surfaces of trunk and engine compartments.
"Customers love the glossy, colorful finish coat on the outside of a car, but that coat is expensive and difficult to apply on many inner surfaces," Tansey said. "Our new color-specific powder primer improves aesthetics at an effective cost."
PPG and GM launched the joint development effort five years ago to replace liquid-solvent primers with an environmentally friendly, cost-effective product. In addition to containing no volatile organic compounds (VOC), the color-specific powder primer eliminates the sludge and hazardous material generated by liquid solvent systems. The color-specific powder primer is used on the 2005 Chevrolet Colbalt at the GM assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
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About PPG：
PPG Industries Inc. was founded in 1883 in Pittsburgh, USA. As a global manufacturing enterprise, it produces and sells coatings, glass, fiber glass, and chemicals and holds a leading position in the above areas. Up to now, PPG has set up more than 108 production facilities that employ approximately 34,800 employees in 21 countries. PPG has been listed on Fortune 500 for 50 years and is world’s leading transportation coatings manufacturer, as well as World’s leading manufacturer of Industrial, aerospace and packaging coatings. According to Fortune, PPG ranked No. 1 in the “Global Most Admired”, chemical industries. For 2003 and 2004, PPG Tianjin was chosen as 10 of the“Best Employer in China” by Hewitt Consulting Firm and Harvard Business Weekly.
In China, PPG produces and sells seven major products, which includes automotive coatings, industrial coatings, automotive refinishing coatings, packaging coatings, aerospace coatings, architecture coatings, and fiber glass. There are 5 plants in Tianjin, Suzhou and Kunshan, and trading company, labs and training centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Nanjing. Now PPG has about 2000 employees in China.
In China, the main customers of PPG Automotive coatings include GM, Benz, Nanjing Iveco and Hainan Mazda. As for packaging coatings, PPG deals business with Coca Cola, Pepsi, Lu Lu, etc. PPG provides aerospace coatings to Boeing, Air China, Shanghai Air, Southern Air, etc. One thing that is especially meaningful is that Air China uses PPG coatings for all of its 3 color planes used for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Also, PPG provides its industrial coatings to Haier, Nokia, Motorola and Dell and its architectural coatings are widely used in many well-known buildings such as Tian Anmen square, Beijing airport, Shanghai Jinmao Building and Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower.
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