15 Dec 2023 --- PPG is opening a US$17 million aerospace application support center (ASC) in Toulouse, France, to provide filling and packaging capabilities for aerospace materials, including coatings and sealants for various aircraft, as well as technical support and a laboratory. The location of ASC Toulouse enables the company to provide faster product deliveries to aerospace customers in southern Europe and North Africa. Jerome Mancy, PPG’s business director at ASC Toulouse, tells Packaging Insights the ASCs provide quicker product delivery and faster product qualification processes due to customer proximity. “The ability to provide right-size packaging for product application is very important to our customers. Our plants, where the sealants and coatings are manufactured, produce the product in bulk. That product is then placed into smaller packaging at the ASC so that the end-user can more easily apply the product and less goes to waste.”
