---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000079879-25-000125"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PPG"
cik: "0000079879"
company_name: "PPG INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T10:47:51.602643+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# PPG elects Nucor CEO Leon Topalian to board effective July 16, 2025

## Summary
- Leon Topalian, chair, president and CEO of Nucor Corporation, elected to PPG board.
- Effective July 16, 2025; will serve on Audit and Sustainability & Innovation committees.
- Topalian brings nearly 30 years of manufacturing and operations experience.
- PPG sold ~$3.2M to Nucor and purchased ~$1.3M in 2024; both <1% of each firm's revenue.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000079879-25-000125
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PPG
- cik: 0000079879
- company_name: PPG INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79879/000007987925000125/0000079879-25-000125-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79879/000007987925000125/ppg-20250417.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000079879-25-000125
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000079879-25-000125.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000079879-25-000125.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Leon J. Topalian was elected as director at PPG INDUSTRIES INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On April 17, 2025, the Board of Directors of PPG Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Leon J. Topalian as a director of the Company, effective July 16, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79879/000007987925000125/0000079879-25-000125-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.