PPG Industries is a leading diversified manufacturer that supplies products and services around the world.
The company makes protective and decorative coatings, adhesives, sealants, metal pretreatment products, flat glass, fabricated glass products, continuous-strand fiber glass products, and chlor-alkali and specialty chemicals — including photochromic ophthalmic lenses, optical materials, amorphous precipitated silicas and fine chemicals. In addition, PPG provides insurance claims-processing services.
With headquarters in Pittsburgh, PPG has 110 manufacturing facilities and equity affiliates in more than 20 countries.
History PPG Industries was founded in 1883 as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The company’s first plant, at Creighton, Pa., near Pittsburgh, was the first commercially successful plate glass factory in the United States. PPG expanded flat glass production operations rapidly during the next decade and a half through new facilities and acquisitions.