Exclusive contract at Nissan plant

Exclusive contract at Nissan plant

Keywords: Nissan, Coatings, Plants

PPG Industries recently became the first coatings manufacturer to be awarded an exclusive contract at a Nissen plant when the automaker announced PPG would be the sole supplier for its facility scheduled to begin production here in 2003.

PPG will supply everything from pretreatments to clear coats at the 2.6-million- square-foot complex, which Nissan officials said when built will be able to produce 250,000 vehicles a year, ranging from full-size pickups and sports utility vehicles to a next- generation minivan.

In addition, PPG has formed a joint venture with a local minority-owned business, Systems Consultants Associates of Jackson, Mississippi, to coat chassis frames, suspension parts and other underbody components as well as Nissan replacement parts with PPG anti-corrosion electrodeposition primer. The joint venture, Systems Electro Coating, will be minority owned and operate at a facility adjacent to the Nissan plant here.