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Ferro Corporation is an American producer of technology-based performance materials for manufacturers, focusing on four core segments: performance colors and glass; pigments, powders, and oxides; porcelain enamel; and tile coatings systems.
Comex was the 4th largest paint manufacturer in North America. [38] After Mexican antitrust regulators voted against the deal twice, Sherwin-Williams bought Comex's US and Canadian divisions for $165 million on September 16, 2013. [39] PPG, US-based paint and coating company, acquired Comex's Mexican division for $2.3 billion.
This left Wilhelm Kielblock, a noted German stained glass designer and painter, [2] and Elmore Helf, a business man, to reorganize the company. Elmore Helf was not the first member of the Helf family to run a stained glass studio, his father, Henry Helf, was shop foreman for Von Gerichten Art Glass Company in Columbus, Ohio. [3]
PPG expanded quickly. By 1900, known as the "Glass Trust", it included 10 plants, had a 65 percent share of the U.S. plate glass market, and had become the nation's second largest producer of paint. [4] Today, known as PPG Industries, the company is a multibillion-dollar, Fortune 500 corporation with 150 manufacturing locations around the world.
The company declared bankruptcy in 1997, after which time, the company became owned by its largest creditor, J.P. Morgan & Co. [2] In 2007, Safelite was acquired by Luxembourg based Belron, which is in turn owned by the D'Ieteren group, [3] Belron is the world's largest vehicle glass company, providing service in over 32 countries.
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