PPG Industries has completed a US$5m expansion of its coatings factory in Wuppertal, Germany.
The project added equipment to existing buildings on the campus, allowing a 35% increase in annual production capacity of environmentally sustainable waterborne coatings for automotive and industrial applications.
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The facility, which employs more than 190, plans to hire extra workers to provide the increased capacity.
“Waterborne coatings offer manufacturers a more sustainable alternative to typical solvent based coatings by reducing volatile organic compounds,” said Jean-Marie Greindl, who heads OEM coatings for the EMEA region at PPG.
“PPG has been at the forefront of this technology throughout its evolution and holds a leading position in this segment in Europe.”
