  
                                             Exhibit No. 5  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
                                April 27, 1995  
  
  
Securities and Exchange Commission  
450 Fifth Street, N.W.  
Washington, DC  20549  
  
     RE: PPG Industries Employee Savings Plan/
         S-8 Registration Statement  
  
To the Members of the Commission:  
  
     This opinion is submitted in connection with the   
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement")   
being filed on April 28, 1995 with the Securities and Exchange   
Commission, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the   
"Act"), in respect of 4,000,000 shares of the Common Stock, par   
value $1.66 2/3 per share, of PPG Industries, Inc. (the   
"Corporation") and an indeterminate amount of interests of   
participation in the PPG Industries Employee Savings Plan (the   
"Plan").  
  
     I am Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the   
Corporation and, in that capacity, I, or lawyers in the Law   
Department of the Corporation acting under my supervision, have   
examined the written documents constituting the Plan and such   
other documents and corporate records as I, or they, have deemed   
necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion.  
  
     Based on the foregoing, I am of the opinion that all of such   
shares and interests of participation, upon their issuance (or   
transfer in the case of shares acquired by the Corporation and   
held in its treasury) under the terms of the Plan and as   
authorized by the Corporation's Board of Directors, will be   
legally issued, fully paid and nonassessable.  
  
     I am further of the opinion that the provisions of the   
written documents constituting the Plan comply with the   
requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of   
1974, as amended, pertaining to such provisions.  
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Securities and Exchange Commission  
April 27, 1995  
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     I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit   
to the Registration Statement.  I also consent to a reference to   
me and this opinion in the documents constituting a prospectus   
relating to the Plan and meeting the requirements of the Act.  
  
                              Very truly yours,
  
  
  
                              /s/ Guy A. Zoghby
                              Guy A. Zoghby  
  
GAZ/dw  
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