Danowski moved to Detroit in 1988 as an automotive glass sales engineer and to Evansville, Ind., in 1991 as superintendent of engineering at PPG’s former automotive glass plant there. In 1994, Danowski moved to Paris as director, market development, for PPG’s European glass business, returning to the US in 1997 as plant manager of PPG’s former Meadville, Pennsylvania, glass manufacturing facility, now part of Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC (PGW). He was appointed director, new products and services, flat glass (now the performance glazings business), in 2001; director, production, automotive OEM glass (now part of PGW), in 2003; and director, global operations, aerospace, in 2007.
Danowski earned a mechanical engineering degree from Gannon University and a master of business administration degree from Ashland University.
