https://www.avient.com/resource-center?document_type=59&page=8
Nymax™ Polymer Formulations Design Guide
Processing & Design Guides
Comprehensive guide for designing molded parts with Nymax nylon formulations
https://www.avient.com/resource-center?document_subtype=0&document_type=59&form_id=resource_filter_form&industry=0&op=FILTER RESULTS&product_family=0&product_name=0&page=8
Nymax™ Polymer Formulations Design Guide
Processing & Design Guides
Comprehensive guide for designing molded parts with Nymax nylon formulations
https://www.avient.com/resource-center/services/product-carbon-footprint-pcf-calculator
Through our design expertise and material science, we help our customers reduce material usage, enable recyclability or recycle content, and improve physical performance.
Technical information, design guides, processing information and more.
Reduce Carbon Footprint by Replacing Traditional Materials
https://www.avient.com/news/colorants-and-additives-avient-sustainable-luxury-plastic-packaging-be-featured-luxe-pack-new-york
PCR Color Prediction Service – winner of the 2023 Re|focus Sustainable Innovation in Design Award and a finalist for the 2023 Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) Product Technology Innovation of the Year Award, this digital service supports PCR resin coloration by illustrating the color possibilities or limitations of certain PCR material before sample development to help simplify the overall decision-making process for brand owners and technical colorists.
With a palette of 20 colors and effects, the guide helps plastic product designers, brand managers, and marketing professionals make more informed color choices.
Avient Corporation provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world.
https://www.avient.com/news/polyone-collaborates-help-celebriducks-offer-safe-water-toys-children
Like CelebriDucks, many baby and child brand owners are choosing our materials for their safety, regulatory compliance, aesthetics and design flexibility.
Customization capabilities enable us to provide designers and OEMs with the specific properties they need.”
In addition to its superior safety versus competitive products, The Good Duck toy represents a material processing milestone.
https://www.avient.com/products/polymer-colorants/liquid-color-concentrates/colormatrix-optica-specialty-toners-pc
PC is a popular material of choice thanks to its versatile characteristics and recyclability.
Discover how can you make the most of color, from design through processing.
Technical information, design guides, processing information and more.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/resources/Investor%2520Day%2520-%2520May%25202012%2520-%2520Specialization.pdf
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Award-Winning Marketing Campaign
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2012 Range Rover Evoque Interior
• Color harmonization across
15 unique color-and-polymer
combinations
• Eliminated need for multiple pre-
colored materials
• Reduced Land Rover’s working
capital
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KOR Delta Hydration Vessel
• Specialty TPE formulation
overcame performance issues
• Eliminated secondary assembly
process for increased
operational efficiency
Interior
seal
Flip-top
seal
Bottom
ring
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Friedrich Kühl® Decorative Air Conditioner Housing
• Replaced painted ABS
housing with Geon™ solution
• Reduced operating noise
• Simplified manufacturing
footprint to drive significant
cost savings
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• Focused on markets with high
growth and profit potential
• Leveraging our in-depth
knowledge of formulation
Focused Efforts in Attractive Industry Segments
$113
$260
Healthcare
and processing to develop
market driven solutions
• Aligning resources across the
organization to drive growth
in target markets $152
$228
2006 2011
Sustainable Solutions
(Revenue in $ millions)
2006 2011
2006 2011
2006 2011
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• Design service collaboration
• Doubled productivity and
improved yield rates
• Substantial reduction in
overall manufacturing costs
Pulmonary Device
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Innovating for the future…
Rejuvenate a mature industry with new
products and processes
Products designed for “next life” instead of
“end life”
Plastics: Key to Future Sustainable Development
…Making a difference today!
end life”
New designs for energy and carbon efficiency
New applications for used and recycled plastics
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Therma-Tech™ LED Lighting
• Replaces metal in LED lighting
• Extends LED durability and life
span eliminating hot spots
• Greater design flexibility with • Greater design flexibility with
fewer parts
• Weight reduction
• Simplifies manufacturing and
lowers total production cost
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Decreasing Decreasing
Dependence on Dependence on
Fossil FuelsFossil Fuels
Globalizing and Globalizing and
LocalizingLocalizing
Protecting the Protecting the
EnvironmentEnvironment
Protecting the Protecting the
EnvironmentEnvironment
Improving Improving
Health and Health and
WellnessWellness
Improving Improving
Health and Health and
WellnessWellness
Alignment with Megatrends
• Aging
population
• Longer life
expectancy
• Healthy living
• Aging in place
• Aging
population
• Longer life
expectancy
• Healthy living
• Aging in place
• Environmental
consciousness
• Alternative
energy
• Resource
efficiency
• Biotechnology
• Environmental
consciousness
• Alternative
energy
• Resource
efficiency
• Biotechnology
• Global
leader/local
expert with
customized
solutions
• Global OEMs
seeking one
standard of
service
everywhere
• Global
leader/local
expert with
customized
solutions
• Global OEMs
seeking one
standard of
service
everywhere
• Efficiency focus
• Reduced
size/weight
• Mass transit
• Alternative
materials
• Electric vehicles
• Efficiency focus
• Reduced
size/weight
• Mass transit
• Alternative
materials
• Electric vehicles
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48.7%
$40.5
26.3%
Research & Development
Spending
Specialty Platform
Vitality Index Progression*
Innovation Drives Earnings Growth
Specialty Platform
Gross Margin %
* Percentage of Specialty platform revenue from products introduced in last five years
19.5%
$20.3
14.3%
($ millions)
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StrategyStrategy
PolyOne Innovation Framework
Unmet Needs
Identification
Idea Generation
and Shaping
Offering Offering Offering Offering
Phased Offering
Launch
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LaunchLaunch
Offering Offering
DevelopmentDevelopment
Market
Penetration
and Value
Maximization
Intellectual Property ● Resources ● CultureIntellectual Property ● Resources ● Culture
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• Accelerate growth in targeted industries and expand
geographic presence through market-driven innovations
• Leverage new talent, tools, and training to drive customer
satisfaction and margin expansion
Critical Imperatives
satisfaction and margin expansion
• Translate best practices
to / from ColorMatrix
• Drive specialization using a
value-based mindset
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https://www.avient.com/news/polyone’s-new-geon-bold-vinyl-solutions-keep-deep-colors-vivid-outdoor-environments
Consumers, designers and architects are increasingly designing stylish outdoor living spaces and home exteriors that demand durability and require low maintenance.
These new materials are available in a range of gloss levels and across a spectrum of use temperatures.
PolyOne Corporation, with 2014 revenues of $3.8 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
https://www.avient.com/news/polyone-showcases-regulatory-compliant-robust-polymer-solutions-wire-southeast-asia-2017
All are designed to meet stringent regulations and streamline wire and cable manufacturing.
As the wire and cable market in Southeast Asia continues to rapidly develop, new design solutions and innovative materials are more critical than ever to maintain a competitive edge,” said Barto Du Plessis, PolyOne vice president, Asia.
About PolyOne
PolyOne Corporation, with 2016 revenues of $3.3 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
https://www.avient.com/news/polyone-improves-driver-experience-new-onflex-lo-automotive-interiors
About PolyOne
PolyOne Corporation, with 2015 revenues of $3.4 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
Caption: Designed to improve driver and passenger safety and comfort, OnFlex™ LO slashes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 50 percent.
Notes to Editors: A 2012 study by the Ecology Center linked off gassing of automotive materials with health issues.