20-12-2005

PPG Industries has reached agreement to acquire from privately owned Iowa Paint Manufacturing a network of 42 architectural coatings service centers focused on professional paint contractors and industrial customers in the Midwest. The acquisition will also include the Iowa and Sterling ...

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11-11-2005

PPG Industries' Lake Charles, La., complex is operating at 80 percent of capacity, and force majeure has been lifted for most products manufactured at the company's largest chemicals facility. PPG issued the force majeure notice Sept. 26 after Hurricane Rita struck southwestern ...

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20-09-2005

Directors of PPG Industries have elected Hugh Grant a member of the company's board. He is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Monsanto Company. Grant, 47, joined the former Monsanto Company in 1981 in Scotland, and spent the first 20 years of his career in the ...

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12-09-2005

Accelrys, Inc. announced the addition of seven new members to the Accelrys Nanotechnology Consortium, as well as the introduction of ONETEP, the first consortium-developed software application. The Consortium brings together leaders from industry, government and academia in order to create ...

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09-08-2005

PPG Industries will install membrane cell technology for the manufacture of chlor-alkali products at its chemicals plant in Lake Charles, La., replacing the facility's mercury cells by mid-2007, company officials announced. "Today's announcement represents a significant investment in the ...

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04-08-2005

PPG Industries has acquired Crown Coating Industries of Singapore, a privately held manufacturer of specialty wood coatings. Terms were not disclosed. Incorporated in 1991, Crown Coating leads the Asian flooring industry in radiation-cured, or UV, coatings. "Crown enables us to provide ...

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23-03-2005

PPG Aerospace - PRC-DeSoto, the aerospace unit of PPG Industries, signed a seven-year global distribution agreement with Indianapolis-based Eldorado Chemical Company, Inc. (dba Eldorado Solutions) to be a distributor of its aerospace maintenance chemicals. As part of the agreement - effective ...

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22-11-2004

PPG Industries and Kansai Paint announced the successful conclusion of negotiations to launch an alliance for the sale of automotive coatings to global original equipment manufacturers. The joint venture, to be known as PPG Kansai Automotive Finishes (PKAF), has just established legal ...

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29-09-2004

PPG Industries and its joint venture partner will build a second fiber glass manufacturing furnace at their facility in Kunshan, China, officials from both companies announced today. The additional furnace, with 38,000 metric tons of annual capacity, will serve the expanding electronics and ...

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09-06-2004

PPG Total Service Solutions recently signed a contract with Wuxi Vehicle Body Co. to provide the vehicle manufacturer with a chemical and process management program at its facility in Wuxi, China. Initial implementation of the program -- the supplier's first comprehensive product and service ...

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