PPG's Auto Coatings Make It PACE Award Triple Finalist
2 November 2000
PPG's Auto Coatings Make It PACE Award Triple Finalist
PITTSBURGH--Nov. 2, 2000--Three coatings developed by PPG Industries are among 36 products, systems and technologies that Automotive News reported are finalists in its PACE Awards program to recognize auto industry supplier innovation.Sponsored by the magazine and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, 2001 award recipients will be chosen by an independent panel in a comprehensive review process and announced in March.
Finalists for PPG are its robotically applied Audioguard acoustic coating system that dampens sound and vibration more efficiently, with less weight and cost, compared with conventional, manually installed pads; Bonazinc weldable primer, applied before stamping and assembly of galvanized steel vehicle bodies and their components for enhanced corrosion resistance; and Enviro-Prime 2000 lead-free electrodeposition primer that out-performs leaded coatings in application emissions reduction and energy consumption as well as for corrosion resistance.
"Becoming a PACE finalist is an accomplishment in itself. To be the only triple finalist is outstanding," said Richard Zahren, vice president of automotive coatings. "We work hard every day to maintain our automotive coatings innovation leadership, and we appreciate this very significant affirmation."
This year PPG was the first coatings maker recognized in the award program, which began in 1995. Enviracryl powder clear coat, the first commercially successful powder-clear for autos, won PPG a PACE award in March. Its pioneering Power-Prime two-bath electrodeposition primer and primer-surfacer coatings system for autos was also a PACE finalist.
Automotive News lists all PACE 2001 finalists on its Web site at www.automotivenews.com.
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