PPG announced several leadership appointments, effective immediately, including Ram Vadlamannati moving to lead a newly created PPG operations organization while keeping oversight of the EMEA region. The announcement is dated January 5, 2023.
PPG is expanding coatings manufacturing capacity for beverage and food can coatings at its Tiel, Netherlands plant and Cieszyn, Poland plant. Completion is expected between late 2021 and Q1 2022; financial details were not disclosed.
China's JDB Group selected PPG INNOVEL non-BPA coatings for beverage cans for its Jia Duo Bao herbal tea, after testing against Chinese and international food contact standards.
PPG opened a nearly $3 million expansion at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin, plant, adding a 3,300-square-foot facility for food-can coatings production.