https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/Comple_t LFT Wheelchair Caster Case Study.pdf
In 1997, the Frog Legs team developed an innovative
alternative to the rigid casters commonly used for the
front wheels.
The second-generation caster wheels developed
by Frog Legs incorporate two Complēt long carbon
fiber-reinforced composite materials.
After six months of intensive development, the new
design underwent rigorous testing, surpassing RESNA
industry standards for impact and drop forces.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2022-06/Avient PCR Color Prediction Tool Solution Bulletin.pdf
A NEW PCR COLORATION TOOL
Avient has developed a digital tool to help assess
the impact of colored, recycled resins (PCR) prior to
laboratory trials.
The tool can digitally illustrate, in real-time, the
color possibilities or limitations of certain types of
PCR, simplifying the overall color decision-making
process during product development and launch.
It can also help
shorten launch time for new product ranges,
allowing fast and reliable checks prior to initiating
sample development.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/resources/Investor%2520Day%2520-%2520May%25202012%2520-%2520Specialization.pdf
McAlindon
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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
Offering Offering
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/sites/default/files/2021-04/bergamid-seat-fastener-case-study.pdf
HellermannTyton decided to develop the seat securement
part using injection-molded Bergamid resin in a standard
black color.
Avient’s team provided a variety of value-
added technical services, including assistance with tool
development, process optimization and testing.
Design flexibility = fast customization: Plastic offers
much greater design freedom than metal, enabling the
company to quickly develop and produce variations of
the seat securement part for different customers
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/resources/Specialty%2520Inks%2520-%2520BU%2520Overview.pdf
Our Wilflex and Rutland brands first emerged
in the early 1960s, when screen printing
on T-shirts was gaining popularity for self-
expression, affording us global recognition,
and allowing us to develop products making
the screenprinting process easier, more
attractive and more profitable.
SOME OF OUR FIRSTS
• Development of the industry’s first
plastisol color mixing system for
screen printing ink
• Introduction of the first automated
ink dispensing equipment
OUR SPECIALTY INKS
• Broadest range of specialty screen
printing inks, including: non-phthalate
PVC plastisol, water-based, silicone,
and non-PVC plastisol
• Ink room solutions including inventory
management software
• Strong expertise in R&D and product
development
• Demonstrated technical service and
color matching capabilities
• Highly efficient manufacturing
operations
• Global manufacturing footprint
and customer reach
OUR BRANDS
• Wilflex is a leading brand of specialty
screen printing inks with a focus on
total ink-room management, providing
the most efficient, cost-effective
environment possible
• Rutland is a leading brand of specialty
screen printing inks for the textile
industry with a strong commitment
to making the screen printing process
easier, more attractive and more
profitable for customers
• Union Ink is a brand dedicated to
providing the broadest range of
innovative and inspired screen printing
inks with the highest opacity mixing
systems in the market
• Printop is a leading brand of textile
screen printing inks in Latin America
including plastisols, water-based,
and discharge inks
• QCM is a trusted brand of cost-
effective, high quality inks for one
of the most recognizable products
in the world, the printed t-shirt
SPECIALTY INKS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
• Five manufacturing facilities in
Kennesaw, Georgia; Pineville, North
Carolina; Lima, Peru, Shenzhen, China;
and Mumbai, India (JV)
• Warehouse and distribution facilities
in Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio in
the US, Paddock Wood and Widnes,
U.K., and Singapore
• Global presence of distributors located
in over 60 countries
Copyright © 2018, PolyOne Corporation.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/65799-Certificate-26SEP2023%5B1%5D.pdf
Amata City Chonburi Industrial Estate, 700/848 Moo 1, Tambol Ph
Amphur Phan Thong, Chonburi 20160
Thailand
Activity: Administration, Site management (Facitilities, EHS), Manufacture,
Laboratory (QC and Technical Development), Maintenance and
Infrastructure, Warehouse and Transport, SCM(DIP, Logistics,
Activity: Administration, Site management (Facitilities, EHS), Manufacture,
Laboratory (QC and Technical Development), Maintenance and
Infrastructure, Warehouse and Transport, SCM (DIP, Logistics,
Facility: Avient South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
No. 2 Nan Yun San Rd., Science City
Guangzhou Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone
Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510663
People's Republic of China
Facility: Avient Colorants (Shanghai) Ltd.
No 88 Lane 4377 Jindu Road
Minhang District
Shanghai, Shanghai 201108
People's Republic of China
Activity: Development and manufacturing of Colorants products (including
additive Masterbatch)
Activity: Development and manufacturing of Masterbatch products
(including additive Masterbatch)
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2020-10/photovoltaic-floating-power-station-case-study.pdf
While
solar power is touted as a viable option to meet
the growing demand, development of land-based
photovoltaic power stations is limited in some cases
by the cost of land, and in others by less-than-optimal
amounts of sunlight.
THE SOLUTION
China is committed to boosting the development of
‘green’ photovoltaics.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2022-10/Paint Sprayer Application Snapshot_0.pdf
INDUSTRIAL
EQUIPMENT OEM
P A I N T S P R A Y E R
• Meet or exceed UL94 V-2 flame rating
• Able to interact with existing bulk chemistry without
compromising functionality or brand color and aesthetics
• Deliver cost targets while providing operational efficiency
and a working capital strategy
• Accelerate product development timeline, and provide
UL94 testing verification prior to production trials
• Achieved all flame rating requirements and
assisted with regulatory approvals
• Developed a proprietary Smartbatch solution that
minimized potential effects from interaction with
current bulk chemistries
• Provided needed support with qualification process
and testing requirements, saving time and cost
• Afforded on-going support with A2LA test labs,
sampling, and lot-to-lot consistency with exacting
performance
Smartbatch™ Formulation: Cesa™ Flame
Retardant Additives and OnColor™ Colorants
KEY REQUIREMENTS
WHY AVIENT?
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/LFT - Blower Vac - Application Snapshot_BU Draft_3.pdf
LAWN & GARDEN OEM
F A N F O R B L O W E R / V A C U U M
• Lighter than incumbent magnesium part to improve start-
up efficiency and enhance overall user experience
• High impact resistance to withstand the effect of fast-
moving landscaping debris
• Good dimensional stability to meet tight tolerances of
assembly
• Expertise to guide next-generation product
development
• Proved material performance success through
extensive Mold Flow and FEA simulations to
prove concept without prototyping and minimize
development costs
• Produced material globally to support regional
demands
• Referred customer to US-based dependable
mold shops to support local production
Complēt™ MT 40% Long Glass Fiber Impact
Modified Formulation
KEY REQUIREMENTS
WHY AVIENT?
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2023-03/LFT - Blower Vac - Application Snapshot.pdf
LAWN & GARDEN OEM
F A N F O R B L O W E R / V A C U U M
• Lighter than incumbent magnesium part to improve start-
up efficiency and enhance overall user experience
• High impact resistance to withstand the effect of fast-
moving landscaping debris
• Good dimensional stability to meet tight tolerances of
assembly
• Expertise to guide next-generation product
development
• Proved material performance success through
extensive Mold Flow and FEA simulations to
prove concept without prototyping and minimize
development costs
• Produced material globally to support regional
demands
• Referred customer to US-based dependable
mold shops to support local production
Complēt™ MT 40% Long Glass Fiber Impact
Modified Formulation
KEY REQUIREMENTS
WHY AVIENT?