The global coating innovation center is located in Tianjin PPG with more ambitions than product development

On August 29, PPG held a signing ceremony for an investment cooperation agreement in Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone, China. Under the agreement, PPG will build a state-of-the-art global coating innovation center in the area. At present, the innovation center is scheduled to be completed and put into use in 2021, the specific arrangements are in the planning process
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The PPG Global Coating Innovation Center project is PPG's only global global research and development center outside the United States and the first foreign-funded global research and development center in the Tianjin Development Zone.
PPG's position in China also demonstrates the importance PPG attaches to the Chinese market.
service center will serve all of PPG's businesses and is PPG's effort to further enhance its research and development capabilities to better serve customers in China, Asia and around the world. In addition to the upcoming global coating innovation center in Tianjin, PPG has established three research and development centers in Suzhou, Tianjin and Guangzhou, China.as an important layout of PPG's global research and development system, PPG (Tianjin) Global Coatings Innovation Center will lead the development of coating products in Asia.
Bem, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, PPG Technology, said, "The new Tianjin Innovation Center will strengthen PPG's industry leadership by harnessing scale, promoting collaboration and continuously enhancing corporate capabilities."you choose Tianjin?
, the industry has long heard of the news that PPG's global research and development center will be located in Tianjin. Tianjin News has also devoted its coverage to the matter, and has aroused the attention of major media. On the afternoon of May 23, Tianjin Mayor Zhang Guoqing met with Michael McGregor, chairman and chief executive officer of PPG Corporation of the United States, at the municipal government office and discussed issues related to the uproat of PPG's global research and development center in Tianjin.As to why PPG chose to establish a global coating innovation center in Tianjin, the reporter believes that the reasons are as follows:
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China is the world's largest paint production and consumer, and Tianjin is PPG into China's first stop, PPG in China's largest market.
is of great significance to PPG, it can be said that it was born here, longer than this. In 1994, PPG established its first factory in Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone, PPG Coatings (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of US$2,550 and an area of about 40,000 square meters. Through continuous expansion, the Tianjin plant has now developed into PPG's largest coatings production base in the world. The plant achieved sales of 5.3 billion yuan in 2016, absorbing more than 2,000 employees and paying more than 700 million yuan in taxes. With the expansion of production base, the corresponding research and development needs are also growing.
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PPG has a deep research and development foundation in Tianjin, and the Coating Innovation Center is not PPG's first research and development center in Tianjin.
as early as 2013, PPG established China's first localized research and development center for automotive coatings in Tianjin to enhance PPG's position in the water-based coatings market. In 2016, PPG invested US$10 million in Tianjin to build a new automotive decorative plastic coating manufacturing center of excellence.
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as Tianjin Mayor Zhang Guoqing said, PPG is the world's leading paint supplier, with good cooperation with Tianjin, outstanding business performance.
, Tianjin is fully committed to promoting the coordinated development of Beijing- and Tianjin-Tianjin-Tianjin major national strategies, speeding up the construction of "one base, three zones", and vigorously developing new energy and new materials and other strategic emerging industries. PPG is very welcome to set up a global research and development center in Tianjin, Tianjin will provide full-service. Moreover, the implementation of Tianjin's "Haihe Talent" action plan will bring together a group of high-level talents for Tianjin.
from the historical origin, geographical location, policy preferences, market demand points, PPG selection of Tianjin is not necessarily the best choice.China is one of PPG's most important strategic markets
PPG was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA, for the 135th year in PPG's history. PPG entered the Chinese market in the 1980s and was one of the first global coatings companies to invest in China. The company's main paint and coating products in China production and sales, specific products include aviation materials, automotive coatings, industrial coatings, packaging coatings, automotive paint and marine coatings.
reform and opening up, especially after 2000, PPG's sales in Asia grew at double-digit annual rates. Data show that by 2010, China's share of the Asia-Pacific market was 48 per cent;
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is the world's second largest economy and has always been one of PPG's most important strategic markets in the world. PPG will continue to increase its investment in China to meet the needs of its customers
. "As one of PPG's key production sites in China, the Zhangjiagang plant still has room to increase production," said John Richter, Vice President of Coatings Operations for PPG Asia Pacific, at the opening ceremony of PPG's Zhangjiagang Electrophoresis Paint Mixing Center on January 8, 2016. That is enough to demonstrate PPG's confidence in China's continued economic growth. In nearly two years, PPG has accelerated its expansion in China, with several projects in 2017 alone:
In February, PPG Coatings (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd. invested $75 million to expand its annual output of 145,000 tons of high-performance coatings and 50,000 tons Ton PVC sealant project; in March, PPG announced the official completion of a new $19 million production line for high-performance water-based and high-solid coatings at its Wuhu plant in China; and in November, PPG Tu (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd. announced the construction of a 68,000-ton high-performance coating project.
July 2018, Bryan N. Iams, PPG's vice president of corporate and government affairs, told Global Polyurethane.com that
China is a very important market for PPG. PPG will invest more in China in the next few years than PPG does in other countries.
the Belt and Road also brings many development opportunities for PPG, such as the construction of high-speed rail, electric vehicle production and so on. From an industry perspective, PPG's future in China is very bright, and PPG will continue to invest to ensure growth in China. At
, PPG has 14 factories in Tianjin, Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, Wuhu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Foshan and other places in China.
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