Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. - Stock Certificate - General Stocks for Sale

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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. - Stock Certificate - General Stocks:
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Glass Company Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Eagle vignette. Attractive!!! Please specify color. PPG Industries, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 company and global supplier of paints, coatings, and specialty materials. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PPG operates in more than 70 countries around the globe. By revenue it is the largest coatings company in the world followed by AkzoNobel. It is headquartered in PPG Place, an office and retail complex in downtown Pittsburgh, and is known for its glass facade designed by Philip Johnson. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company was founded in 1883 by Captain John Baptiste Ford and John Pitcairn,Jr., at Creighton, Pennsylvania. Based in Creighton, Pennsylvania (about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh along the Allegheny River), 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, Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.