PPG Industries’ coil and building products coatings group will introduce the PPG Metal Coatings Online Color Selector Tool and digital Architectural Metal Coatings Binder app at AIA Convention 2015, the annual gathering of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), in Atlanta, May 14-16.

The color selector tool features digital versions of all 90 colors in the PPG Architectural Liquid and Powder Coatings Color Guide and each of the 80 colors in the PPG Building Products Coil Coatings Color Guide. Visitors can access large swatches of all 170 extrusion and coil coatings colors – which include the ability to click to full-screen views – and filter searches by color family or brand name such as DURANAR, Duranar ULTRA-COOL, DURASTAR and CORAFLON coatings.

The free Architectural Metal Coatings Binder application, available from the APPLE APP STORE(SM) online store, enables access to fully updated catalogs, product brochures and data sheets for the entire roster of PPG liquid and powder coil and extrusion coatings. It includes color guides and technical documents for PPG metal coatings, along with white papers, case studies and sourcing information for members of the PPG CAP CERTIFIED APPLICATOR PROGRAM group and for PPG-approved extrusion applicators and coil coaters.

Another in-booth highlight will be a mini-house constructed by PPG to demonstrate how products such as Duranar, Duranar ULTRA-Cool and Duranar VARI-COOL coatings are used to protect and beautify metal building products. The display will showcase PPG glass and paint products as well.

PPG also celebrates a half-century of partnership with Arkema, as the only original and continuous licensee of the highly recognized, oft-recommended and universally trusted KYNAR 500 polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) resin made by Arkema. Today, Kynar 500 FSF® resins are a key component in every Duranar fluoropolymer coating.