
                                                            Exhibit No. 5







                                         October 7, 1996


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 October 7, 1996 with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the 
"Act"), in respect of 10,000,000 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
October 7, 1996
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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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