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Ppg Indus
Ppg Indus is a publicly traded company having a good stock performance result. Ppg Indus is a fortune 500 stock listed company trading under PPG. The company was founded as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. in 1883 and changed its name to PPG Industries, Inc. in 1968. PPG is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
PPG Industries, Inc. manufactures coatings, glass, and chemicals products. The coatings products include protective and decorative coatings for industrial equipment, appliances, and packaging; factory-finished aluminum extrusions, and steel and aluminum coils; aircraft; automotive original equipment; and other industrial and consumer products, as well as automotive refinishes to the aftermarket. It also supplies adhesives, sealants, and metal pretreatment products for aerospace, industrial, packaging, architectural, automotive original equipment and aftermarket refinish applications.
The glass products include flat and fabricated glass, and continuous-strand fiber glass for the construction, furniture, and electronics industries; automotive original equipment; automotive replacement; and other markets. It offers products directly to manufacturing companies, independent distributors through distribution outlets. The chemicals products include chlor-alkali chemicals, including chlorine, caustic soda, vinyl chloride monomer, chlorinated solvents, chlorinated benzenes, calcium hypochlorite, and phosgene derivatives.
It sells directly to manufacturing companies in the chemical processing, rubber and plastics, paper, minerals, metals, and water treatment industries. It supplies specialty chemicals for various products, such as lenses; optical materials; amorphous precipitated silica’s for tire, battery separator, and other end-use markets; synthetic printing sheet used in such applications, as waterproof labels, e-passports, and identification cards; advanced intermediates and bulk active ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry.
The coatings business involves the supply of protective and decorative finishes for industrial equipment, appliances and packaging; factory-finished aluminum extrusions and coils; aircraft; automotive original equipment, and other industrial and consumer products. The glass segment supplies flat glass, fabricated glass and continuous-strand fiberglass to the residential and commercial construction markets, the furniture and electronics industries, automotive original equipment, automotive replacement and other markets.
The approximate sales made as of 31 Dec2005 was 10.2bl dollars. They have earned 596.0 million dollars as income in the last 12 months.
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