Pittsburgh-based PPG and Aerobrand, a U.K. airline brand and design consultant have partnered to offer airline customers a unique service that combines paint supply with livery design.
Customers will be able to visit a PPG Livery Lab aircraft coatings and design facility and work with designers to create a design and custom paint colors using color and performance technologies.
Facilities will be located in Burbank, Calif., and Shildon, U.K.
Other benefits of this collaboration include cost estimates with the paint volume requirement built in, which leads to reduced waste and cost savings.
“Our partnership with Aerobrand will prove invaluable for our customers on many levels,” Sam Millikin, PPG global director of coatings and sealants for aerospace, said. “This direct collaboration between our color formulators and Aerobrand’s outstanding livery design team offers airlines a creative solution that will increase the speed and reduce the cost of these services compared to obtaining them separately.”
“We are extremely pleased to leverage our years of experience in aircraft livery design with PPG’s coatings expertise and to work together in the lab,” Aerobrand CEO David Hedley Noble said. “As we look to the future, there are many exciting new initiatives in the aerospace coatings world, and this partnership with PPG enables us to offer our clients in-depth knowledge of these technologies and their real-world application.”