Value

PPG aerospace values sustainability productivity and innovation

PPG Aerospace delivers value with products and services that address your most important goals

Reduce your costs

 Lightweight coatings, sealants and transparencies save you fuel costs

Better aerodynamics helps planes fly more efficiently

Ease of Application improves your cycle time and productivity

Receive superior products

High Performance products last longer and perform better

Stealth Capabilities for classified defense needs

Comfort for passengers

Reduce your risk

Environmentally friendly products are better for the environment and your workers

Lightning Strike Protection reduces risk to the airplane and passengers

  • Lightning strike protection with PRC® Seal Caps, conductive coatings and sealants

Count on experience

Company experience matters

Lightweight

PPG offers lightweight products for the aerospace industry that help you save fuel costs and carry more passengers and cargo. Lightweight is a key criteria in our product development.

PPG aerospace values lightweight

Key Technologies

Transparencies – saving weight in both cockpit and cabin windows

  • Structurally loaded composite windows - cockpit windows that don't require a frame
  • Opticor™ Advanced Transparency Material - lighter material with high performance

Sealants – save weight throughout the plane

  • Gen IV lightweight sealant - now with a specific gravity of .75 making it lighter than water

Coatings – lighter weight coatings starting with the primer through base and clear coats

  • Aerocron™ Electrocoat Primer - replace sprayed primer with high performing lighter weight coating
  • Desothane® HD Basecoat Clearcoat - better hiding capability means less paint is needed

Cost Savings

There are several ways that PPG Aerospace products and services can assist you with reducing your costs.

PPG aerospace value cost savings

Some examples include:

  • Increase Service Life with Corrosion Inhibitive and Windshield and Canopy Sealants and A320 Repair Program
  • Reduce Fuel Costs with improved aerodynamics by using Opticor™ Advanced Transparency Material
  • Reduce Waste with Semco® Packaging & Application Systems right size packaging
  • Improve Productivity by using Fast Cure Sealants
  • Improve Cycle Time with Desothane® HD Basecoat/Clearcoat
  • Reduce Inventory using Total Solution Services - PPG Aerospace Chemical Management Solution