CRANBERRY TWP — PPG Industries today opened its new regional headquarters for its architectural coatings business at a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Gov. Tom Corbett.

The 118,000 square-foot facility in the Westinghouse Electric Co. complex in the Cranberry Woods business park will have 500 employees by the end of the year.

More than 150 of those jobs are new while the remaining employees are coming here from locations in other states.

Corbett praised PPG officials for bringing new jobs to the area, but also for consolidating out-of-state businesses and bringing them back to Pennsylvania.

The governor talked about Cranberry Township, a place he remembers as a “farm field” when he used to visit the area frequently decades ago.

He remarked that the new PPG headquarters is in the shadow of another business recognized around the world.

“If you say ‘PPG’ anywhere in this country, everyone knows what you’re talking about,” Corbett said. “And it’s right next to another business in Westinghouse that you can say the same thing about. You have to be excited for what’s happening here.”

Corbett told the crowd that they should be excited for the future of Western Pennsylvania, given its emergence as a leader in natural gas, medicine and education.

The facility in Cranberry, which PPG is leasing from Westinghouse, will be the regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico branches of the architectural coatings business.

John Skorupan, a Cranberry Township supervisors, said the PPG headquarters is “another validation of the value of planning” and remarked how far Cranberry has come in a few decades.

“The speakers today spoke about this all being open fields and woods just a few years ago,” he said. “Today, it is a world-class business park hosting over 8,000 employees.”

Mark Silvey, a PPG spokesman, said he expects the facility to be at full capacity by the end of 2015 as the company consolidates operations from other sites.