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The coatings industry, like many others, thrives on interconnectedness and shared value chains. By recognizing sustainability as a shared responsibility, understanding the interconnected needs throughout the value chain, and ensuring accountability, companies can drive meaningful change. 

Recently, considerable development work has been conducted to demonstrate the enhanced performance and improved economics associated with new and novel white pigment offerings. This article highlights a new white pigment that is showing great promise at reducing the amount of titanium dioxide needed to formulate cool roof coatings while enhancing performance, processability, and affordability. 

More than 1,500 PPG volunteers and community partners took part in the initiative, dedicating more than 10,000 hours to transform classes and learning spaces for more than 12,200 students and educators.

Exterior substrates stay cool in the sun by minimizing solar absorption and maximizing thermal emittance. This technology offers numerous benefits, including increased savings on electricity bills, and reduced maintenance and replacement expenses.  

SGH experts will discuss overall sustainability concerns, building enclosure system design, structural material considerations, and fireproofing approaches.

This article describes a new higher-block-resistance VAE under development that significantly minimizes the trade off between block resistance and scrub resistance in VAE-only paints. Additionally, this new VAE continues to maintain high scrub resistance even in low-sheen paints, enabling the formulator to use a single-VAE binder across all sheens.

PPG’s Board of Directors has elected PPG President and Chief Executive Officer, Tim Knavish, as Chair of the company’s Board of Directors and CEO, and has appointed Michael W. Lamach as the new PPG Independent Lead Director and Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee.

The British Coatings Federation and the Painting and Decorating Association have collaborated to produce a new video that will help consumers save time, money, and resources when painting. As well as tips on how to store paint brushes and rollers overnight, the video explains how to recover paint from painting tools before washing them. 

This breezy and blissful shade of blue evokes the ever-present sense of peace found when slowing down, taking a breath and allowing the mind to clear. "With this color, we invite our consumers to take a pause and infuse a new sense of ease and possibility into their spaces – one that doesn’t overwhelm, but rather establishes meditation and tranquility,” said Sue Wadden, Director of Color Marketing at Sherwin-Williams.  

The Innovation Center adds 36,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratory and office space, allowing up to 60 research and development scientists to collaborate.