To our valued stakeholders,
I am proud to share PPG's 2025 Sustainability Report, highlighting our progress in strengthening our position as a global leader in coatings, specialty products and productivity solutions for our customers.
Sustainability has been a core component of PPG's long-term business strategy for over a decade, and remains a key enabler of our enterprise growth strategy today. Sustainably advantaged products accounted for 43% of PPG's 2025 product sales, reflecting our continued focus on solutions that help our customers be more productive. Guided by our customers' jobs to be done end-to-end, we innovate both inside the can, through advanced chemistry, coatings formulations, and application science, and outside the can, through digital tools, streamlined application processes, and productivity-enhancing delivery systems.
Part of our customer innovation strategy includes leveraging forward-thinking digital and AI capabilities. In 2025, we advanced our use of AI across the innovation lifecycle, leveraging digital twins to focus on the most promising chemistries before they enter the lab and applying generative AI and large language models to accelerate development and field applications. These efforts resulted in the launch of PPG DELTRON® NXT Premium Glamour Speed Clearcoat, our first product developed using AI and machine learning to meet full commercial specifications. This next-generation automotive refinish product delivers premium appearance with significantly faster cure time, helping our customers lower their energy usage and increase shop productivity. We plan to continue leveraging these capabilities to accelerate future product innovation, reduce development cycles and bring sustainable, high-performing solutions to our customers more efficiently.
In 2025, our community investments totaled $18.1 million, supporting hundreds of community organizations worldwide. As part of this, we celebrated the 10-year milestone of our COLORFUL COMMUNITIES® program, which brings together PPG volunteers, customers, products and financial support to help revitalize community spaces. Building on its success, we extended the initiative for an additional 10 years and committed $15 million by 2035 to support the next decade of impact.
Looking ahead, we are focused on accelerating our momentum while remaining committed to our purpose, WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD®, which marks its 10th anniversary in 2026. We are confident that our sharpened portfolio, sustainably advantaged product offerings and innovation capabilities will continue to position PPG as our customers' first choice partner.
Thank you for your continued confidence and interest in PPG.
Tim Knavish
PPG Chairman and Chief Executive Officer