PPG Completes Colorful Communities Project at Community Center in the Netherlands
PPG has completed a Colorful Communities® project at the Bilderdijkhof community center in Uithoorn, Netherlands. The project brought together 70 PPG employees who spent two days repainting the interior with a color palette selected by PPG color experts. PPG provided more than $55,000 (€55,000) to support the renovation and supplied more than 330 liters of SIGMA COATINGS™ paint by PPG. This included innovative products such as SIGMA AIR PURE™ air-purifying indoor wall paint that uses bio-based raw materials, and the PPG SPRAYMASTER™, a portable paint spraying system that was used to apply water-based Sigma S2U Allure paint.
The Colorful Communities program provides PPG volunteers and products along with financial contributions to bring color and vitality to communities where the company operates around the world, such as in Uithoorn, where it has an architectural coatings facility. The Bilderdijkhof center is part of Participe Amstelland, a welfare organization that supports residents of Uithoorn so that they can continue to actively participate in society. The PPG volunteers repainted the center, including the day care area for people with dementia, offices, corridors, and a billiard room using a dementia-friendly color scheme with muted tones for the main walls and fresh greens and yellows for the contrasting walls.