PPG Honors Nine Companies as Excellent Suppliers.

PITTSBURGH -- PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has presented nine Excellent Supplier Awards for superior performance in 2004.

Award criteria included product quality, delivery, documentation, innovation, responsiveness, continuous improvement and participation in PPG's Supplier Added Value Effort ($AVE) program.

Kathleen McGuire, PPG vice president, corporate purchasing and distribution, praised the performance of the award-winning suppliers. "Their products, services, reliability, innovation and overall value in 2004 were outstanding," she said. "We consider them invaluable business partners who provide us a significant competitive advantage."

On an annual basis, PPG purchases more than $5 billion in materials and services from thousands of suppliers.

The companies earning the 2004 Excellent Supplier Award, and the products and services they provide, are:

--Applied Industrial Technologies, based in Cleveland, supplies bearings and engineered products as well as power-transmission and fluid-power components to PPG's automotive coatings, glass, flat glass, fiber glass and chlor-alkali and derivatives businesses in the United States.

--Brock Service Painting Company Inc., of Beaumont, Texas, provides painting and related services to the Lake Charles, La., chemicals facility.

--BYK Chemie GmbH, Wesel, Germany, provides chemical additives for the automotive original-equipment coatings and refinish as well as industrial and packaging coatings businesses in Europe, South America, Australia and the United States.

--Eckart Aluminum GmbH, headquartered in Furth, Germany, supplies aluminum pigments to automotive original-equipment coatings and refinish as well as industrial and packaging coatings businesses in Europe, South America, Australia and the United States.

--EPSCO International, with facilities in Texas and Louisiana, provides non-metallic pipe, valves and fittings to U.S. chlor-alkali and derivatives, fine chemicals and silicas businesses.

--Hartman & Hartman, Inc., of Washington, Pa., provides general construction services for U.S. automotive glass, flat glass, automotive refinish and chlor-alkali and derivatives businesses.

--Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC, Oklahoma City, supplies titanium dioxide to PPG's worldwide architectural finishes, original-equipment automotive coatings and industrial coatings businesses.

--Kyowa Hakko, headquartered in Tokyo, supplies amino acids to the U.S. fine chemicals business.

--Oxiteno S/A Industria e Comercio, with facilities in Brazil and Mexico, provides butoxy ethanol to original-equipment automotive coatings, industrial coatings, automotive refinish and packaging coatings businesses in South America.

Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries is a global supplier of coatings, glass, fiber glass and chemicals, with manufacturing facilities and equity affiliates in more than 20 countries. Sales were US$9.5 billion in 2004.

Note to Editors: In the text above, there should an umlaut over the letter "u" in "Furth" and an accent over the letter "e" in "Comercio." These symbols were removed for transmission purposes only.