PPG will proceed on because the official paint of the Nationwide Hockey League in Canada and the U.S. following a three-year extension of their North American partnership.
Monetary particulars and phrases weren’t disclosed.
Pittsburgh-based PPG will take part as a sponsor of the 2023 Uncover NHL Winter Basic, through which its hometown Penguins will go to the Boston Bruins at Fenway Park, residence of Main League Baseball’s Boston Pink Sox, Monday, Jan. 2, at 2 p.m. ET.
The corporate will likely be represented by way of branded dasherboards, in-stadium signage and on-site activation,
PPG may also profit from nationwide broadcast publicity by way of Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards in the course of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
When the 2 events final renewed their partnership, in 2019, they revealed {that a} color-changing thermochromic coating developed with PPG suppliers LCR Hallcrest and QCR Options could be added to all official sport pucks, altering from purple to clear when the puck’s temperature rose above freezing in order that officers would understand it was time for a brand new puck.
Along with greater than 60,000 sport pucks each season, PPG’s Envirocron Excessive Safety coating has been used on goalposts since 2017.
NHL senior vice chairman of North American enterprise growth Kyle McMann mentioned in an announcement, “We’re delighted to increase our partnership with PPG, a deeply dedicated NHL associate that engages our followers throughout quite a few ranges of our nice sport, together with on the upcoming Uncover NHL Winter Basic. It’s thrilling to see that PPG will make the most of DED, an modern method to dynamic dasherboard promoting, to advertise its merchandise and attain new shoppers and NHL followers.”
PPG chief communications and authorities affairs officer Bryan Iams added, “We’re proud to mix the facility of the NHL with PPG and its well-known client paint manufacturers, together with PPG Paints, Dulux paint, Sico paint, Glidden paint and Olympic stains. Via the partnership extension, PPG will proceed to establish new methods to combine its paints, coatings and specialty supplies into the sport of hockey, together with at premier occasions such because the 2023 Uncover NHL Winter Basic.”
