PPG Industries Inc.

Company Overview

PPG Industries Inc. creates and sells a wide selection of paints, coatings and specialized products. In 1883, PPG became a legal entity in Pennsylvania. By continually providing high-quality, creative and sustainable solutions that customers can rely on to protect and enhance their goods and surroundings, PPG aspires to become the leading coatings company in the world. PPG has a track record of committing to cutting-edge paint, coatings and specialty materials technology as well as innovation, sustainability and community involvement.

With manufacturing sites and equity affiliates in more than 70 nations, PPG is a market leader on a global scale. PPG provides paints, coatings and specialty materials to clients serving a variety of end-uses, including coatings for other industrial and consumer products as well as industrial equipment and components, packaging, aircraft, and marine equipment, automotive original equipment, automotive refinish, and pavement marking products. By providing coatings to painters and maintenance specialists as well as directly to customers for decorating and maintenance, PPG also serves customers in the commercial and residential new construction and maintenance sectors. The highly competitive coatings industry is made up of numerous big companies with a global presence and numerous smaller businesses that serve local or regional markets.

PPG faces competition in its key markets from many local coatings firms as well as the biggest coatings firms in the world, the majority of whom have international operations. There are two reportable business segments in PPG’s operations: Industrial coatings and performance coatings.

Financial Highlights (FY 2024)

Company's Business Segments

• Performance Coatings : Variety of protective and decorative coatings, adhesives, sealants and finishes, pavement marking products, paint strippers, stains and related chemicals, transparencies, transparent armor and paint films.
• Industrial Coatings : Variety of protective and decorative coatings and finishes along with adhesives, sealants, metal pretreatment products, optical monomers and coatings, low-friction coatings, precipitated silicas and other specialty materials.