ppg-20230720

Pennsylvania

001-1687

25-0730780

(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)

(Commission
File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Pre-commencement communication pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, par value $1.66 2/3

PPG

New York Stock Exchange

0.875% Notes due 2025

PPG 25

New York Stock Exchange

1.875% Notes due 2025

PPG 25A

New York Stock Exchange

1.400% Notes due 2027

PPG 27

New York Stock Exchange

2.750% Notes due 2029

PPG 29A

New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

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Item 5.02						Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On July 20, 2023, the Board of Directors of PPG Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Christopher N. Roberts III as a director of the Company, effective October 18, 2023. Mr. Roberts will serve in the class of directors whose term expires at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Board of Directors appointed Mr. Roberts to the Audit Committee and the Sustainability and Innovation Committee of the Board of Directors.

As an independent director of the Company, Mr. Roberts will be entitled to receive compensation consistent with that of the Company’s other independent directors who are not employees of the Company, as described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 9, 2023 under the caption “Compensation of Directors,” which portion of such proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference.

Mr. Roberts is Executive Vice President and General Manager, Global Food and Beverage of Ecolab Inc. In 2022, PPG purchased approximately $1,306,000 of products and services from Ecolab, and in the first half of 2023 PPG purchased approximately $515,000 of products and services from Ecolab. Such purchases were made in the ordinary course of each company’s business and amount to less than one percent of each company’s consolidated gross revenues for fiscal year 2022 and the first half of 2023.

Mr. Roberts was not selected as a director of the Company pursuant to any arrangement or understanding between Mr. Roberts and any other person or entity.

A press release reporting the election of Mr. Roberts as a director of the Company is attached hereto as Exhibit 99 and is incorporated herein by reference.


Exhibit Number						Description
99						Press release of PPG Industries, Inc. dated July 24, 2023.
104						Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


		PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.
		(Registrant)

Date: July 24, 2023	By:	/s/ Timothy M. Knavish
		Timothy M. Knavish
		President and Chief Executive Officer



PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)



FORM			8-K


Item 9.01						Financial Statements and Exhibits.