PPG Industries has recently been named as one of the top 100 global enterprises that contribute to China's economic development by China Enterprise News and the China Enterprise CSR Research Center.

Cathy Yan, general manager, government affairs and business development, PPG Asia/Pacific, noted in a Jan-19 news release: "Even the global economic downturn last year did not stop our growth in this region."

She said the company made two important investments in 2009 - one is the Application Support Center (ASC) in Tianjin for the aerospace business, and the other is PPG's first resin plant in China."

The resin plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, will be a "model plant" in terms of its environmental features, the company said, incorporating PPG's "green" building materials.

The Zhangjiagang plant is scheduled to begin operation in early 2011, primarily producing water-based electrodeposition resins.

Yan at the award ceremony. (Photo by PPG)