Color topic

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Martin,

PPG - stands for - Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.

PPG Industries NYSE: PPG was founded in 1883, under the name Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The company is an American manufacturer of glass and chemical products, including safety glass in automobiles. It is headquarted in PPG Place, a popular office and retail complex known for its striking glass facade designed by Philip Johnson. It is located in downtown Pittsburgh.

Business units include the following:

AEROSPACE.
ARCHITECTURAL COATINGS. Under the Pittsburgh? Paints, Olympic, Porter?, Monarch?, Lucite and PPG HPC (High Performance Coatings) brands, this unit produces paints, stains and specialty coatings for commercial, maintenance and residential markets.

AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS. Global supplier of automotive coatings and services to auto and light truck manufacturers. Products include electrocoats, primer surfacers, base coats, clear coats, pretreatment chemicals, adhesives and sealants.

AUTOMOTIVE OEM GLASS. Produces original equipment windshields, rear and side windows and related assemblies for auto and truck manufacturers.

AUTOMOTIVE REFINISH. Produces and markets a full line of coatings products and related services for automotive repair and refurbishing as well as specialty coatings for sign, light industrial and fleet markets. Also created and manages CertifiedFirst?, PPG?s premier collision-shop alliance.

AUTOMOTIVE REPLACEMENT GLASS. Fabricates and distributes replacement windshields and rear and side windows. Also responsible for PPG PROSTARS marketing alliance in the retail auto glass replacement market.

CHLOR-ALKALI AND DERIVATIVES.
FIBER GLASS.
FINE CHEMICALS.
FLAT GLASS.
INDUSTRIAL COATINGS.
INSURANCE & SERVICES.
OPTICAL PRODUCTS.
PACKAGING COATINGS.
SILICAS.

See link to Corporate site:

http://corporateportal.ppg.com/ppg/

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[CHALTEN]

Thanks David!
It was not the kind of answer I was looking, I must admit, but being a newbie I have to learn, and do have a lot to learn.

Martin

[David Pollock]

Pigments used to mix colours changed significantly in the late 1940s so it is not possible to follow mixing formulas. Until recently, it was possible to duplicate colours by formula from about 1949 on up. You would start with the body code and it would reveal a paint formula number. This in turn would give a mixing formula and an exact match could be obtained.

There have been many developments in recent years which make it impossible to mix older formulas but most paint suppliers can photograph a sample of your car's finish and a spectographic analysis will give a new mixing formula.

Another way to do it is look at modern cars and trucks until you spot a near match. Obtain the make and model and if possible the body paint code. Then have that colour mixed. On a complete repaint , it is a far more satisfactory way of choosing a colour than looking at the colour chips in a book. They are far too small for the eye to judge and usually colours chosen this way are a disappointment as far as authenticity goes.

If you are looking for plainer non metallic colours, try commercial "fleet" colours which often come close to original shades from the 30s and 40s.

[CHALTEN]

Hello everyone,

A question from my ignorance. I have been reading the paint section of www.ply33.com model U. I am really a biginer and really do not know how to go about. I guess there must be a color guide such as the ones at paint shops, but I am in Argentina and do not have access to many of the stuff you can get in the US. So my question is, how can I replicate a color from the Du Pont Duco Number or PPG Mimax number? I guess each number or pair codes something. An example would be great to understand it.
Anyone out there who can help me? I will be really thankfull.

Best regards,

Martin Z