PPG Announces Performance Glazings Price Increase

PPG Industries announced a 13-percent price increase for all clear, tinted, coated and tempered glasses from its performance glazings (formerly flat glass) business and an 8-percent increase for all Starphire ultra-clear glass products, both effective June 16. The company cited higher raw material, energy and transportation costs as the reason for the increase.

"PPG continues to experience double-digit cost increases in the costs of raw materials associated with the production of our glass and coated glass products," says Scott Follett, director, marketing and new product development, PPG Performance Glazings. "In addition, the increases in costs associated with diesel fuel and natural gas have far outpaced our ability to recover costs through current energy surcharge practices."

Follett says that in the past five years, costs for glass batch materials including sand and soda ash have grown dramatically, and the price of natural gas that powers glass melt tanks has skyrocketed. In the last year alone, he says, diesel fuel used for transportation of raw materials and glass products has increased more than 40 percent.

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