waste while also decreasing our costs. We
are very happy to recognize their world-
class sustainability practices with our first
PPG Supplier Sustainability Award.”
On an annual basis, PPG purchases
approximately $7.5 billion in goods
and services globally from thousands
of suppliers. The company’s criteria
for Excellent Supplier Awards include
quality, commercial value, delivery,
documentation, innovation, responsive-
ness, sustainability and participation
in PPG’s Supplier Added Value Effort
($AVE) program.
“These nine suppliers all helped create
a competitive advantage for PPG in 2016,
by maximizing value, meeting quality
and service requirements, and minimizing
risk and complexity,” Batra said. “These
awards show our appreciation of their ef-
forts to support PPG.”
Companies earning the 2016 Excellent
Supplier Award, and the products and
services they provide, are:
Alchemy Media, a media agency in
Harrogate, England, serves the architec-
tural coatings – EMEA (Europe, Middle
East and Africa) business.
Chromaflo Technologies, with headquarters in Ashtabula, Ohio, supplies
tints and colorants to the architectural,
automotive refinish, industrial, and protective and marine coatings businesses
in North America, South America, Asia
Pacific and Europe.
Complementos Coby S.A de CV, of
San Pedro, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, supplies
PPG Comex and the industrial coatings
and protective and marine coatings businesses in Mexico and Central America
with sundries products.
EMFI SAS, with global headquarters
in Haguenau, France, provides polyurethane sealants to the PPG Comex
architectural coatings business and the
industrial coatings business in Mexico.
Mi-T-M Corp., Peosta, Iowa, supplies
pressure washers through PPG’s architectural coatings stores and dealers in the
U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
Olympic Forest Products, winner of
the first-ever PPG Supplier Sustainability
Award, provides wooden pallets and
services to PPG’s architectural coatings,
automotive refinish coatings, industrial
coatings, automotive original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) coatings, protective
and marine coatings, and specialty coat-
ings and materials businesses in the U.S.
Penske Logistics, headquartered in
Reading, Pennsylvania, has provided ded-
icated lift-gate truck fleet service to PPG’s
architectural coatings business in the U.S.
and Canada since 2006.
Schütz, with global headquarters in
Selters, Germany, equips the automotive
refinish coatings, industrial coatings, au-
tomotive original equipment manufac-
turer (OEM) coatings, and packaging
coatings businesses in North America,
South America and the EMEA region
with intermediate bulk container (IBC)
packaging systems.
Tower Sealants of Oklahoma
City supplies products through PPG
PAINTS stores in the U.S., Canada and
Puerto Rico.
Chinese Student Racing
Team Competes in Formula
SAE 2017 With Axalta-
Painted Car
Shanghai Tongji University’s College of
Automotive Studies students designed
and developed it. Axalta , their sponsor,
coated it.
The red, black and white patters on the
camouflaged body design of the race car
– dubbed TR 17 – could be a competitve
advantage for TJU during the Formula
SAE 2017, an auto design competition
organized by the Society of Automotive
Engineers (SAE) International.
The Spies-Hecker waterborne coating
decreased the car’s body weight compared to the old paint job, according
to a press release from Axalta, and was
applied at the company’s Asia-Pacific
Technology Center.
“The TR17 is specially designed to
bear patterns of China’s national flag at
the sides of its tail wings,” said Zhang
Renjun, technology and training manager at Axalta China Refinish, who is
responsible for TJU’s race car coating
project. “Axalta’s wet-on-wet coating
technology requires only 1.5 sprays per
step, completing the coating process of
TR17 with the best coating effects in
only three days.” CW
