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Showcasing a 'New America'
The Pittsburgh region has survived wrenching economic change and emerged with a balanced, innovation-driven economy renowned for health care and life sciences, technology and robotics, higher education and research, financial services, advanced manufacturing and renewable energy.
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A City Full of Diversity
As a city full of diversity, you will love exploring the culture, food, and atmosphere of Pittsburgh’s 89 unique and ethnically distinctive neighborhoods. Pittsburgh’s downtown is full of the city hustle and bustle, and Squirrel Hill has the quaint charm of a main street-like community. Meanwhile, Oakland, with its many universities, supplies a uniquely intellectual atmosphere. Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods and the unique people in them are just waiting for you to come and visit!.
PPG Industries
Contact: Jack Maurer, +1 412.434.2181
PPG Supplies High-Performance Coatings, Fiber Glass and Glass Products to the Global Wind and Solar Energy Markets
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) provides leadership in the renewable energy market, offering a rich portfolio of proven, globally available products that help energy producers to improve production efficiency and preserve their investments. PPG's coatings, fiber glass and glass products help plants and equipment to last longer, work better and require less maintenance, even in the harshest environments.
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) provides leadership in the renewable energy market, offering a rich portfolio of proven, globally available products that help energy producers to improve production efficiency and preserve their investments. The company invests more than $300 million annually to develop coatings, fiber glass and glass technologies that fulfill the special needs of this market.
As one of the world's two largest suppliers of both fiber glass and coatings, PPG is uniquely positioned to serve the wind energy marketplace. The company manufactures fiber glass reinforcements for composites in the United States and China that help to strengthen turbine blades while keeping them lightweight. Globally produced PPG coatings solutions protect blade, tower and metal components on land and sea, and they offer coating process efficiency as well as environmentally-responsible water-based liquid and high-solids formulations. More information about PPG's products for the wind energy industry is available at PPGWind.com
To support solar energy producers, PPG provides advanced glass technologies that improve the efficiency of reflector and photovoltaic panels as well as metal coatings that protect solar collection equipment. PPG introduced the first low-iron glass in the 1930s and now uses this technology in Starphire and Solarphire glasses that offer high visible light transmittance to enable efficient solar energy production. Also an innovator in thin-film coating technology for glass, PPG offers enhanced-performance coated glasses for the solar power industry. More information about PPG's products that support solar energy generation is available at PPGSolarphire.com
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