Underhood

Underhood coatings delivering exceptional durability and throwpower

Underhood coatings and finishes need to deliver outstanding corrosion protection, chemical resistance, durability and great throwpower for application to part interiors, even those with complex shapes. PPG's underhood coatings and finishes meet the need by helping to improve product longevity, supplying exceptional performance and reducing production processes.

Our solutions are designed for steel, aluminum or other mined metal substrates and optimized to align with existing process applications.

Exceptional coatings performance for underhood parts including:

  • Engine blocks
  • Radiators
  • Compressors
  • Brackets
  • Oil pans
  • Valve covers

Our auto parts offerings

Chassis & Structure
Chassis and structural elements are exposed to the harshest conditions. Our coatings deliver exceptional corrosion protection, chip resistance and excellent durability.
Underhood
For areas like engine blocks, radiators, compressors and brackets, our products are designed to align with your existing process applications and help to reduce energy consumption.
Ride Performance
For all the components that help your customers have the smoothest experience possible, our coatings deliver exceptional performance and durability.
Trim, Frames & Rails
These exterior trim areas demand coatings that deliver both performance and appearance and our topcoats are designed for outstanding physical protection, toughness and style.
Interiors
Our interior coatings solutions are designed to deliver longstanding durability, scratch resistance, chemical resistance and comfort.
Body Panels
From integrated modules to coatings for plastic body parts, PPG meets your needs for areas like bumpers, spoilers, grills, rocker panels, doors, fenders, side view mirrors and more.
Flexible Coatings
Our products are specifically designed to deliver excellent topcoat performance and UV durability for rubber applications like door and sunroof sealing systems, lift gates and glass runs.

Meeting the unique needs of your industry

Autonomous Coatings
With autonomous vehicles being one of the primary mobility trends, the industry expects greater needs for advanced coating technologies and PPG is a leader in providing them.
Auto Parts
PPG provides coatings, applications, sealants and adhesives for a broad array of automotive parts for OEMs and Tier suppliers around the world.
Commercial Vehicles
Our multi-technology approach makes coatings process more efficient and cost-effective for our commercial vehicle customers while meeting the needs of lightweight vehicles, energy savings, and improved sustainability.
Electric Vehicles
As OEMs continue to accelerate investment in full electric vehicles powered by lithium-ion battery packs, PPG is meeting their needs with cost-effective coatings that deliver performance, durability and safety.
Traditional Vehicle Coatings
We offer everything from waterborne and solventborne primer, basecoats, clearcoats, powder primers and scratch resistant ceramic clearcoats for traditional vehicle types.
Wheel Coatings
With PPG Cetelon we specialize in paint systems for aluminum wheels, either solvent or water based and offer premium and ultra premium colors and finishes for OEMs and Tiers.