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PITTSBURGH PAINT CENTER
PITTSBURGH PAINT CENTER. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company was founded in 1883 by Captain John Baptiste Ford and John Pitcairn, Jr., at Creighton, Pennsylvania.
Based in Creighton, Pennsylvania, PPG soon became the United States' first commercially successful producer of high-quality, thick flat glass using the plate process. PPG was also the world's first plate glass plant to power its furnaces with locally produced natural gas, an innovation which rapidly stimulated widespread industrial use of the cleaner-burning fuel.
PPG expanded quickly. By 1900, known as the "Glass Trust", it included 10 plants, had a 65 percent share of the U.S. plate glass market, and had become the nation's second largest producer of paint. Today, known as PPG Industries, the company is a multibillion-dollar, Fortune 500 corporation with 150 manufacturing locations around the world. It now produces coatings, glass, fiberglass, and chemicals. (1)
The 1968 through 1974 Dubuque City Directory listed 484 Central.
The 1977 through 1980 Dubuque City Directory listed Pittsburgh Paints at 1000 Iowa.
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PPG Industries, Wikipedia. Online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPG_Industries
