PPG Aerospace Facilities
Earn Supplier Awards
Three facilities operated by PPG
Industries’ aerospace business have
been recognized by Northrop Grumman
Corporation’s Aerospace Systems sector with 2013 Platinum Source Preferred
supplier awards. They are the Huntsville,
Alabama, transparencies facility; Irvine,
California, coatings manufacturing plant;
and Kennesaw, Georgia, application support center (ASC).
Northrop Grumman grants the
awards only to those Aerospace Systems
sector suppliers that achieve distinction in
product quality, on-time delivery, customer satisfaction, and robust, lean processes.
This marks the eighth year PPG’s ASC-Atlanta in Kennesaw has received the
Platinum Source Preferred supplier
award. It supplies Northrop Grumman
with sophisticated PPG defense coatings
and sealant products to support modifications, development and production
for naval and air force weapons systems.
Recognized for the second time, PPG’s
Huntsville facility designs and manufactures advanced transparency systems. A
first-year honoree, the PPG Irvine facility
supplies water-reducible primers and urethane, epoxy and advanced-performance
topcoats.
“PPG Aerospace and the employees
at Huntsville, Kennesaw and Irvine are
highly focused on our customers and
committed both to the service and quality of our products,” said David Morris,
PPG Aerospace general manager and
vice president for the Americas. “Earning
these awards shows that we are acting on
that commitment. It gives our employees
very well-deserved recognition for their
efforts and something they can be proud
of as members of our team.”
The three PPG operations were among 74
recipients of 2013 Northrop Grumman
supplier awards.
A longtime supplier to Northrop
Grumman, PPG provides transparencies, coatings and sealants for several air-based programs.
Axalta Coating Systems
Celebrates 50 Years of
Commercial Powder
Coatings
Axalta Coating Systems, a global supplier
of liquid and powder coatings, celebrates
50 years of commercially produced latest generation powder coatings, making it one of the oldest powder coating
manufacturers in the world. Axalta got its
start in commercial powder coatings in
1964 with the acquisition of the Teodur
brand that had been manufactured by
Wagemakers Lekbrieken, a Dutch family-owned paint company founded in 1848
that sold its first architectural grade thermosetting powder at its site in Teodur.
Axalta’s powder coatings deliver superior
coverage and transfer efficiency with both
thermosetting and thermoplastic coatings
manufactured under the names of Alesta,
Nap-Gard and Abcite. These products
have earned a reputation for corrosion
resistance, durability due to superior edge
coverage, thick film build, and efficiency
because no primer is required, according
to the company.
“Axalta Coating Systems is honored
to have such rich history, vast experience and great success in powder coatings throughout these fifty years,” said
Michael Cash, president, Industrial
Coatings. “It keeps us motivated each day
to continue the legacy by offering great
products to our valued customers around
the world.” CW
Index to Companies
This index gives the starting page for a department or feature with a significant reference to a manufacturer of paint, coatings, adhesives and sealants
Subsidiaries are indexed under their own names.
AkzoNobel................................................................................................ 10, 27
Anvil Paint and Coatings................................................................................. 46
Axalta ..............................................................................................8, 10, 27, 50
BASF ............................................................................................................... 10
Behr ................................................................................................................ 10
PaintSolutions ................................................................................................. 10
PPG............................................................................................8, 10, 17, 26, 46
Quest Automotive Products............................................................................. 46
Sherwin-Williams ...................................................................................... 27, 30
Sika ................................................................................................................. 10
Valspar................................................................................................. 10, 17, 27
3M .................................................................................................................. 17
