AVNT-2022.03.31-News Release - Dyneema 1 NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Avient Announces Agreement to Acquire DSM Protective Materials (Dyneema®) and Plans to Explore Sale of Distribution CLEVELAND – April 20, 2022 – Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), a leading provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Royal DSM (“DSM”) to purchase the DSM Protective Materials business (including the Dyneema® brand) (the “Dyneema business”). For 10 years, we have been building our advanced composites platform by focusing on high-performance materials for applications where failure is not an option. The foundation of the protective materials business of DSM is the renowned technology and globally admired brand of Dyneema®, the World’s Strongest Fiber™.

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PEDERSON Senior Vice President, President of Specialty Engineered Materials Chris Pederson is senior vice president, president, Specialty Engineered Materials, for Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions and services. He later joined Cytec, where he led composite product development for the Americas and Asia Pacific regions, served as vice president of R&D, and ultimately was promoted to vice president of Cytec’s global Aerospace Engineered Materials business, which included P&L responsibility.

HOLGER KRONIMUS Vice President, Europe General Manager, Engineered Materials Europe Holger Kronimus is Vice President, Europe, and General Manager, Specialty Engineered Materials Europe at Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions that help customers succeed while enabling a sustainable world. Kronimus joined Avient in March 1999, and in addition to leading the company’s engineered materials business in Europe and India, also serves as Avient’s legal representative in the region, responsible for building and maintaining relationships with local governments and associations.

About Avient Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), with 2021 revenues of $4.8 billion, provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. They are based on management’s expectations that involve a number of business risks and uncertainties, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. Three Months Ended March 31, 2022 2021 Sales: Color, Additives and Inks $ 649.5 $ 609.3 Specialty Engineered Materials 244.7 216.5 Distribution 432.9 362.7 Corporate and eliminations (33.3) (26.2) Sales $ 1,293.8 $ 1,162.3 Gross margin: Color, Additives and Inks $ 192.1 $ 197.5 Specialty Engineered Materials 69.8 64.7 Distribution 39.3 39.3 Corporate and eliminations (7.5) 0.9 Gross margin $ 293.7 $ 302.4 Selling and administrative expense: Color, Additives and Inks $ 97.6 $ 108.7 Specialty Engineered Materials 30.1 30.5 Distribution 15.1 15.3 Corporate and eliminations 22.3 27.5 Selling and administrative expense $ 165.1 $ 182.0 Operating income: Color, Additives and Inks $ 94.5 $ 88.8 Specialty Engineered Materials 39.7 34.2 Distribution 24.2 24.0 Corporate and eliminations (29.8) (26.6) Operating income $ 128.6 $ 120.4 Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA): Color, Additives and Inks $ 120.5 $ 116.2 Specialty Engineered Materials 47.5 42.0 Distribution 24.4 24.2 Corporate and eliminations (26.0) (24.9) Other income, net (0.6) 1.5 EBITDA $ 165.8 $ 159.0 11 Attachment 7 Avient Corporation Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures (Unaudited) (In millions, except per share data) Senior management uses gross margin before special items and operating income before special items to assess performance and allocate resources because senior management believes that these measures are useful in understanding current profitability levels and how it may serve as a basis for future performance.

Offsetting any inflationary headwinds with our time-tested rigor in raw material sourcing, substitution and pricing actions 6. All Rights Reserved 2025 19 Specialty Engineered Materials – Q1 2025 performance Sales 314 308 Q1 2024 Q1 2025 Flat EXCL. All Rights Reserved 2025 28 NON-HYDROCARBON MATERIALS HYDROCARBON-BASED ~35% of the raw material basket including part of “Other raw materials” are hydrocarbon-based Raw material basket 16% 14% 9% 2% 37% 9% 5% 4% 4% Performance additives Pigments TiO2 Dyestuffs Styrenic block copolymers Polypropylene Nylon Polyethylene Other raw materials Copyright © .