PPG Aerospace Identified in Aviation Week Suppliers’ Innovation Challenge

ALTEOS Interactive Window Systems Honored

SYLMAR, Calif. -- PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) aerospace firm has been honored for its ALTEOS(TM) Interactive Window Methods in the Suppliers’ Innovation Challenge of Aviation Week & Room Solutions and Defense Technologies International magazines. The challenge recognizes and promotes groundbreaking labor by tiered suppliers in aerospace and defense.

Alteos Interactive Window Systems by PPG Aerospace provide you with controllable dimmable shading for aircraft passenger-cabin windows with electrochromic know-how created and made by Gentex Corp. The earliest electrochromic window shading methods for business aircraft, they are utilised on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Beechcraft King Air 350i aircraft.

“The aviation and defense industries are by their nature technologically innovative, so for PPG Aerospace to be acknowledged as carrying out groundbreaking and innovative labor in these markets is without a doubt an honor,” says Mark Cancilla, PPG Aerospace international platform director for transparencies. “We thank Aviation Week, Defense Technology Worldwide and the judges for this tribute. We are grateful to all of us involved in the enhancement and commercialization of Alteos Interactive Window Methods, from the families at Gentex Corp. who supply the electrochromic technology, to the a number of PPG buyers who labored very long and very difficult bringing these methods to sector, to our users for believing in our abilities.”

8 winners in eleven categories have been selected from amid further than eighty entries by a panel of judges of Aviation Week and Defense Technologies Global editors and supplier and technology executives at major aerospace and defense organizations. The judges ended up: Robert Murray, vice president, provide chain management, Hamilton Sundstrand John Borghese, vice president, superior engineering programs, Rockwell Collins Joe Jackson, director, Strategic Sourcing, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Programs William Sweetman, editor-in-chief, and Pat Toensmeier, contributing editor, Defense Engineering International Anthony L. Velocci Jr., editor-in-chief, and Graham Warwick, senior engineering editor, Aviation Week & Room Solutions Brian McDermott, vice president, supplier management, Aerospace Industries Association and Paul Kling, deputy vice president of operations and supplier management, BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Assistance.

PPG Aerospace is the aerospace products and solutions and services venture of PPG Industries. PPG Aerospace – Transparencies is the world’s largest supplier of aircraft windshields, windows and canopies. PPG Aerospace – PRC-DeSoto is the main worldwide producer and distributor of aerospace coatings, sealants, and packaging and software programs.

About GentexFounded in 1974, Gentex Corporation (Nasdaq World-wide Select Marketplace: GNTX) is the top supplier of automatic-dimming rearview mirrors and camera-based mostly lively security techniques to the world wide automotive sector. The Firm also features smoke alarms and signaling devices to the North American fire defense market place, and electrochromic engineering for dimmable aircraft window devices for the business, online business and general aviation markets. Dependent in Zeeland, Michigan, the worldwide Firm develops, manufactures and markets inside and exterior automated-dimming automotive rearview mirrors that utilize proprietary electrochromic technologies to dim in proportion to the amount of headlight glare from trailing auto headlamps. Way more than fifty percent of the Company’s interior mirrors are sold with superior electronic attributes, and a great deal more than 97 percent of the Company’s revenues are derived from the sale of car-dimming mirrors to almost each individual important automaker in the universe. Gentex is an AS9100 licensed supplier. For additional advice, visit www.gentex.com or communicate with Connie Hamblin at connie.hamblin@gentex.com.

About PPGPPG Industries’ vision is to keep on to be the world’s leading coatings and specialty merchandise corporation. Founded in 1883, the business serves people in industrial, transportation, purchaser services, and development markets and aftermarkets. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, PPG operates in increased than sixty nations all around the planet. Income in 2009 had been $12.two billion. PPG shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: PPG). For even more important information, drop by www.ppg.com.

Alteos is a trademark of PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.