Globalization Positions us to serve our customers consistently everywhere in the world. Operational Excellence Empowers us to respond to the voice of the customer with continuous improvement. The remaining useful lives range up to 25 years.

It’s why customers choose us. With over 100 Avient production and distribution facilities, all operating with the rigor of Lean Six Sigma principles and excellence, we are proud to serve our valued customers wherever they need us. Senior management also uses 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.

In addition, the acquisition of Clariant’s color business in July 2020 has been transformational to our portfolio and helped us become the specialty formulator we are today. Senior management believes these measures are useful to investors because they allow for comparison to Avient's performance in prior periods without the effect of items that, by their nature, tend to obscure Avient's operating results due to the potential variability across periods based on timing, frequency and magnitude. Senior management believes these measures are useful to investors because they allow for comparison to Avient's performance in prior periods without the effect of items that, by their nature, tend to obscure Avient's operating results due to the potential variability across periods based on timing, frequency and magnitude.

It has been over a year since we completed the acquisition of Clariant’s color business and became Avient – bold moves to help us become the specialty formulator we are today,” said Robert M. Senior management believes these measures are useful to investors because they allow for comparison to Avient's performance in prior periods without the effect of items that, by their nature, tend to obscure Avient's operating results due to the potential variability across periods based on timing, frequency and magnitude. Senior management believes these measures are useful to investors because they allow for comparison to Avient's performance in prior periods without the effect of items that, by their nature, tend to obscure Avient's operating results due to the potential variability across periods based on timing, frequency and magnitude.

The US and Canada grew organic sales 5% and Latin America had a strong quarter growing organic sales by 19%. Management excludes intangible asset amortization from adjusted EPS as it believes excluding acquired intangible asset amortization is a useful measure of current period earnings per share. Senior management believes these measures are useful to investors because they allow for comparison to Avient's performance in prior periods without the effect of items that, by their nature, tend to obscure Avient's operating results due to the potential variability across periods based on timing, frequency and magnitude.

GLOBALIZATION Positions us to serve our customers consistently, everywhere in the world. The remaining useful lives range up to 20 years. The registered investment company non-US equity funds invest in underlying securities that are actively traded in public, non-US markets.

As a solution provider in the global marketplace, PolyOne must harmonize its own systems and capabilities in a timeframe to allow us to provide solutions globally.

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OUR STRATEGY SPECIALIZATION Differentiates us through unique value-creating offerings to our customers. GLOBALIZATION Positions us to serve our customers consistently, everywhere in the world. The remaining useful lives range up to 20 years.

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