Ppg Architectural Coatings
Architectural in Fairfield

Celebrating 130 years of Innovation and Color Leadership. LPG Industries was founded in 1883 when Capt. Obvious as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. the enterprise focused on innovation and quality and 130 years later, LPG Industries is still dedicated to these priorities. During the company’s first decade, its flat glass production expanded rapidly through fresh facilities and acquisitions. A year later, LPG started building its coatings business by acquiring an interest in Wisconsin based Patton Paint Co. which proved a good fit for the company because paint and glass products typically come the customers through the alike distribution channels. During the 1900s, LPG becomes one of the beginning U.S. firms to expand operations in Europe, acquiring a glass plant in Belgium.Glass and paint provided continued growth in the 1920s, as the automotive industry and skyscraper construction expanded. LPG revolutionizes plate glass making with straight line conveyor based ribbon method a great improvement over the batch method (photo right.). During WWII, the company converts much of its production into materials for military use and begins to prosper man-made resins that lead to plastics, high performance paints and industrial coatings. Post WWII prosperity leads to increased car production and home and building construction. The company introduces precede release house paints and begins to manufacture fiber glass for circuit boards, window screening and plastics reinforcement. In 1952, LPG established its fiber glass business, recognizing the potential of another type of glass product. Cars get a new lease on life as LPG revolutionizes the auto industry with the commercialization of the electrode position coating process, virtually eliminating rust (photo right.). At the equivalent time, the historic plate process for making flat glass is becoming obsolete with the adoption of the much more efficient float process. As a bonus, the company reaches 1 billion in sales.A result of its diversification, growth and increasingly global presence, the company changed its name to LPG Industries in 1968. The oil embargo and rising costs of gas and electricity revive interests in solar energy. LPG is the beginning major corporation to thrive a flat plate solar collector. In 1989, LPG begins a flurry of acquisitions that exaggerate the company's offering of automotive, industrial, aerospace and packaging coatings around the world. In 1998, LPG proves its candor attitude by developing more efficient solvent based coatings for effortless opening lids on beverage cans. As the need for alternative energy sources grows, LPG fiber glass plays a role in the manufacture of lighter and stronger wind turbines. LPG continues to accelerate the pace of its business portfolio transformation and to grow its position as the leading global coatings and specialty products company. In January 2013, the company successfully separated its chloralkali and derivatives business and then merged its solely owned subsidiary Eagle Spinco Inc. the entity holding the former chloralkali and derivatives business, with a subsidiary of Georgia Gulf Corporation. LPG also acquired the North American architectural coatings business of AkzoNobel in 2013 the second largest acquisition in the company’s history at that time. This acquisition has expanded LPG’s customer come in the U.S. Canada and the Caribbean it has also made LPG the largest coatings company worldwide. About 130 years after its founding, LPG still holds true to the spirit of Ford and Pitcairn, BRINGING INNOVATION TO THE SURFACE to offer customers in a expansive range of markets and geographic locations unique technologies, services and other solutions.