Coatings World - September 2015

PPG Completes First
Colorful Communities
Charitable Giving
Project in Europe

PPG Industries has announced the completion of its first“Colorful Communities” charitable giving project in Europe, which helped revitalize the Cesare Arrigo Children’s Hospital in Alessandria, Italy.

The Colorful Communities program, which PPG launched in May, incorporates employee volunteers, products and charitable giving to bring color and vitality to communities where the company operates around the world. The program expands PPG’s investment in communities by committing an additional $10 million over 10 years.

The Cesare Arrigo Children’s Hospital project brought together 110 PPG employee volunteers from its Felizzano and Quattordio plants and its architectural coatings manufacturing facility in Cavallirio. Employee volunteers used SIGMA COATINGS® paint products, a PPG brand, to beautify the gates surrounding the hospital, and they planted bright flowers in the gardens on its grounds, to create a more positive and pleasant environment. PPG awarded a grant of $18,000 to Fondazione Uspidalet, a community organization dedicated to promoting the well-being of patients at the hospital, to support the project. The work helped beautify the children’s hospital for its 125th anniversary, which the community celebrated June 13.

“The Cesare Arrigo Children’s
Hospital is an important community in-
stitution and close to the hearts of our
employees,” said Benito Sala, PPG plant
manager in Quattordio. “We wanted
to bring a bit of color and excitement
to the young patients and visitors and
leave a tangible sign of our commitment
to the communities where we operate
and where our employees and their
families live.”
“We are excited to have completed
our first Colorful Communities project
in Europe,” said PPG Corporate Global
Social Responsibility executive director
Sue Sloan. “PPG employees around the
world are enthusiastically embracing this
new initiative, and we’re all eager to see
how the program will make an impact
and add color in the global communities
where we operate.”

PPG Completes $5 Million Expansion of Wuppertal, Germany, Coatings Plant PPG Industries recently completed a $5 million expansion at its coatings manufacturing facility in Wuppertal, Germany. The project added equipment to existing buildings on the campus, supporting up to a 35 percent increase in annual production capacity of environmentally sustainable waterborne coatings for automotive and industrial applications. The facility, which employs more than

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