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ChemScore report card 2025
PPG Industries
Total Score
9/100
Ranking
30/40
About the company
PPG Industries, originally Pittsburgh Plate Glass, is one of the largest coatings company in the world by revenue and supplies products for the manufacturing, construction, automotive, and chemical processing industries worldwide. The company also makes protective and decorative coatings, flat glass, fabricated glass products, continuous-strand fibre glass prod industrial and specialty chemicals. PPG Industries operates in more than 70 countries.
Transparency
3 out of 25 points
Action points
- Start disclosing revenue connected to hazardous chemicals
- Start publishing volumes of hazardous substances that leave the company’s facilities as products or services
- Report on the company’s global hazardous substances portfolio (beyond EU/US) on a substance-by-substance basis
Phase-out of persistent chemicals
3 out of 25 points
Action points
- Start reporting and/or limit the share of revenue from persistent chemicals considerably
- Stop producing persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
- Stop buying/importing persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
Product portfolio
3 out of 25 points
Number of registered hazardous chemicals
20
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Candidate List
8
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Authorisation List and/or POP substances
0
Number of persistent chemicals
3
Product portfolio transparency
49%
Action points
- Reduce the number of hazardous substances the company is using, producing and placing on the market
Safer solutions
0 out of 25 points
Action points
- Define a safer solution that excludes at least the REACH candidate list substances
- Publicly commit not to develop or market new products containing hazardous substances. As a minimum, REACH candidate list substances must be excluded from such products.
- Publicly commit to increasing the share of sales of safer solutions
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Company facts
Founded
1883
Headquarters
Pittsburgh, USA
Revenue
15.8 billion USD
ISIN
US6935061076
Category
Paint / Coating
