New PPG Glass Education Center video focuses on reflective glass

Date: 22 September 2014

Tutorial explains aesthetic and performance benefits of using reflective glass - PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has posted a new video about the benefits of designing with reflective glass in the PPG Glass Education Center, a comprehensive website that helps architects, specifiers, students and construction industry professionals learn more about designing, specifying and building with glass. The video features Paul DiCesare, PPG manager of architectural quality assurance, flat glass, discussing specific applications for which tinted, reflective glass can be a superior choice to transparent glass.

The tutorial covers key benefits associated with reflective glass and its abilities to harmonize with colors and surrounding building materials and to limit visibility, increase privacy and control glare.

The PPG Glass Education Center is a growing library of glass technical information that serves as an objective, user-focused online resource for glass and building industry professionals. Content is updated regularly based on the most frequently-asked questions PPG fields on its website, during sales calls and through its call center.

To learn about more glass-related topics, log onto www.educationcenter.ppg.com. For more information about PPG’s full collection of architectural glass products, visit www.ppgideascapes.com or call 1-888-PPG-IDEA (774-4332).

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has posted a new video about the benefits of designing with reflective glass in the PPG Glass Education Center, a comprehensive website that helps architects, specifiers, students and construction industry professionals learn more about designing, specifying and building with glass. The tutorial covers key benefits associated with reflective glass and its abilities to harmonize with colors and surrounding building materials and to limit visibility, increase privacy and control glare. To learn about more glass-related topics, log onto www.educationcenter.ppg.com. For more information about PPG’s full collection of architectural glass products, visit www.ppgideascapes.com or call 1-888-PPG-IDEA (774-4332).

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PPG Industries' vision is to continue to be the world’s leading coatings and specialty materials company. Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. Founded in 1883, PPG has global headquarters in Pittsburgh and operates in nearly 70 countries around the world. Reported net sales in 2013 were $15.1 billion. PPG shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: PPG). For more information, visit www.ppg.com and follow @PPGIndustrieson Twitter.

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