At PPG, we aim to champion all employees, empowering them to reach their full potential and sustain a high-performing workplace that supports our enterprise growth strategy.
In 2025:
- Employee engagement remained strong, with the October 2025 Engagement Survey showing record high levels of engagement across the workforce, supporting the organizational health required to deliver the company's long term growth strategy and positioning PPG to earn the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for a fourth consecutive year.
- Our culture continued to evolve through input from approximately 38,000+ PPG People who participated in workshops, interviews, surveys and focus groups. Their perspectives shaped the behaviors and expectations that support continuous improvement and help position PPG for the future.
- Leadership capability continued to advance across the organization. More than 6,300 leaders participated in development programs, and the Frontline Leader Program reached 17 priority plants, equipping more than 200 frontline leaders with skills that enhance operational excellence, including safety, quality and people management.
- Onboarding for plant and manufacturing roles expanded to 85 sites across four regions, improving consistency and accelerating new hire readiness in support of operational excellence.
- Talent pipelines grew to more than 136,000 prospective candidates, strengthening the company’s ability to fill business critical roles and support strategic growth priorities.
- Eight Employee Resource Networks connected 8,000+ employees across 60 countries, delivering monthly programming across topics such as mental health, women's and men's health, disability inclusion, career talks and cultural recognition, along with more than 15 global events that strengthened overall inclusion, collaboration and workforce sustainability.
Our Communities
At PPG, our community engagement supports our purpose to protect and beautify the world.
Our efforts are focused on education, employee engagement and community sustainability, three areas that represent an intersection of our business strengths and our ability to create positive impacts across our communities. Our global giving totaled $18.1 million in 2025, supporting hundreds of community organizations worldwide.
We seek to build the next generation of innovative leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through programs such as EuroSkills Herning 2025, Europe’s largest vocational education and skills excellence competition, and Bidwell Training Center's Chemical Laboratory Technician program in the U.S. and through partnerships with several science centers worldwide. In 2025, we invested $9.8 million in advancing STEM education.
Our community sustainability investments deliver community transformations through colorful spaces and beautification projects, support essential needs (particularly in times of disaster), and provide opportunities to thrive in the communities where we operate. We activate the time and talent of our employees to make a difference in our local communities. Our COLORFUL COMMUNITIES® program brings together PPG volunteers, PPG products and financial support to rejuvenate community spaces. In 2025, we celebrated the 10-year milestone of the global program, completing 43 projects in 23 countries, 88% of which included elements of sustainability as defined by our internal guidelines. Since 2015, more than 33,000 PPG employees and community volunteers have positively impacted more than 10.3 million people in over 50 countries. In 2025, we extended the Colorful Communities program for an additional 10 years to mark a decade of beautifying and revitalizing communities. As part of this commitment, PPG committed $15 million to celebrate the next decade of the program.
As an extension of our sustainability efforts, we also committed to investing $5 million in environmental sustainability education from 2023 to 2030. Through the end of 2025, we invested $2 million of our commitment. Our efforts aim to strengthen support of the next generation of innovators and maximize the impact within communities where we operate through partnerships with organizations such as the National Energy Education Development (NEED) in the U.S., launching new education materials with Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), and with Centrum JongerenCommunicatie Chemie (C3), a Dutch education nonprofit to launch the "Green paint factory" lesson.
Human Rights
We respect the dignity and human rights of all people. As stated in our Global Code of Ethics, we comply with all laws pertaining to freedom of association, privacy, collective bargaining, immigration, wages and hours and working time in our operations throughout the world. We also uphold laws prohibiting forced, compulsory and child labor, human trafficking and employment discrimination. To reinforce our commitment to human rights, in 2025 PPG adopted the PPG Industries, Inc. Human Rights Policy. Our Human Rights Policy prohibits the use of forced, prison, indentured, bonded, slave or child labor; prohibits workplace discrimination; requires PPG to follow applicable laws with respect to work hours, wages and benefits; prohibits participation in any illegal forced eviction practice; and requires free, prior and informed consent of local communities before PPG uses land and natural resources. Our human rights policy is available at ppg.com/en-US/sustainability/human-rights-policy.
We expect all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners to respect and uphold our commitment to human rights in their operations. Our Supplier Sustainability Policy builds upon our Global Supplier Code of Conduct by establishing our expectation that our suppliers, as well as their subcontractors, will comply fully with applicable laws and adhere to internationally recognized governance standards, including those governing working conditions, wages and prohibiting the use of child and forced labor. Each supplier must evaluate and maintain sustainable processes and raw material sources throughout their supply chain and supplier base. We annually assess key strategic suppliers, which make up 65% of our total supply base spend. As of the end of 2025, we had assessed all of these key suppliers to sustainability and social responsibility criteria.
