Company information
PPG Industries UK Ltd
PPG Industries’ vision is to continue to be the world’s leading coatings and specialty products company. Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and colour, 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, employing around 42,500 employees. Sales in 2013 were $15.2 billion. PPG shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
PPG recognises the need to recruit and develop young talented employees to ensure the future success of the corporation, and one of the ways to do this is to provide quality student placement programmes to give potential future employees a taste of life in a dynamic, challenging and innovative organisation.
The company is composed of 13 strategic business units in six major product areas, the 12 month student placement programme will take place in the Automotive Refinish business unit based at the Manufacturing Plant, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
PPG's Stowmarket manufacturing facility produces automotive refinish coatings and resins for a variety of brands.
PPG Refinish also continues to invest significantly in research and emerging technologies. Improved quality, reduced paint cycle times, lowered costs, environmental needs and sustainability—PPG Refinish is always at the forefront, bringing fresh ideas and answers to market.
PPG employs around 3,000 employees in the UK & Ireland, with around 350 based at the site in Stowmarket.
PPG is an extremely diverse company. It has a global portfolio of businesses and product lines; more than 140 manufacturing facilities and equity affiliates; operates in more than 60 countries around the globe; and has about 40,000 employees of wide-ranging nationalities, cultures, religions, ethnic, professional and educational backgrounds.
Sustainability is first and foremost about being a successful business. We do what we do in order to ensure the success and lasting presence of our company for the benefit of our customers, our suppliers, our shareholders, our employees and our neighbours. But, we also act in a way that not coincidentally helps to ensure the life and resilience of our economies, our environment and our society. We believe that these two views of sustainability – sustaining PPG and sustaining the world – are not mutually exclusive, but are very compatible.