PPG Industries has inducted two of its glass science and technology leaders as ‘distinguished colleagues’ into the PPG Collegium.
CEO Charles E Bunch and Chief Technology Officer Charles F Kahle recognized the new members’ collective and individual accomplishments and contributions to PPG’s innovations and commercial success.
“Members of the collegium personify the research, innovation and technology leadership that has transformed and recreated PPG businesses time and again,” Kahle said. “They are our R&D brain trust, inspiration and catalyst for future success. Election to the collegium is the highest honour that PPG bestows on the members of its technical community.”
The new members are Hong Li, a staff scientist for PPG’s fiber glass business who counts among his contributions three new glass compositions developed or adapted for fiber glass commercial production in the wind power, corrosion resistance and high-performance electronics markets.
Li has had more than 70 pieces published in peer-reviewed journals, and he is named in more than 20 patents and patent applications. He was recently named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
The other is Dennis J O’Shaughnessy, associate director, flat glass vacuum coatings, who joined PPG in 1988. He was selected as a co-recipient of the PPG President’s Award for outstanding technical achievement in 2000 and 2006.
The author of eight US patents and pending patent applications, O’Shaughnessy also participates on the US Department of Energy’s panel on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for solid-state lighting.
Their colleagues Bill Blackburn and Jean Barjot, from the company’s automotive coatings department, were also inducted in the collegium.
