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These advanced, comprehensive solutions help customers meet their sustainability goals while also improving performance."
is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
is committed to its customers, employees, communities and shareholders through ethical, sustainable and fiscally responsible principles.
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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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An increasing number of governmental regulatory agencies are requiring consumer-focused product companies to achieve higher levels of sustainability while fueling the growth of the circular economy.
Avient offers a number of bio-based colorants, additives, polymers, and inks to address this growing need.
Bio-derived dispersions of PVC resins, they are suitable for multiple manufacturing processes and can be custom-formulated to specific requirements.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2024-02/CAI W_C Colorants and Additives for TPU Product Bulletin _A4.pdf
Additives can also
be used to further enhance the performance
characteristics of TPU materials and help
customers reach end use specifications.
They
provide excellent contrast for dark or light
colors with high resistance to external friction
or chemicals
• Smartbatch™ Combination Colorants &
Additives: Combines colorants and
performance enhancing additives in a single
formulation for easier dosing. e.g., long-term
light stabilization additive and custom color
in one pellet.
This can help to reduce
inventory and can allow the use of general-
purpose resin
Avient Value-Added Services
Avient supports these colorant and additive
technologies including:
• A focus on sustainability with innovative
materials and solutions to help you meet
your sustainability goals, including PCR Color
Predication Service and Product Footprint
Calculator
• Leading Color Trend and Design Services -
Trend and color insights along with product
development assistance from concept through
commercialization to optimize design and
gain speed to market
• Avient Design - A highly specialized group of
industrial designers and project engineers
that provides advanced design and detailed
analysis to foster higher levels of innovation
• Application Development and Technical
Support - Technical experts specifically
trained to work directly with your team to
solve definitive application challenges with
new or existing approaches
• Regulatory Support - Dedicated product
stewardship assisting with new product
approvals to reduce regulatory overheads
and minimize risk
• Reliable field technical services and support
- Onsite support for tool design, startup,
and production optimization to gain
manufacturing efficiencies and help resolve
technical issues
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Schuering
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Appliance
5%
Building &
Construction
3% Wire & Cable
Electrical &
Electronics
Consumer
21%
Industrial
24%
HealthCare
21%
Transportation
17%
2011 Revenue: $1.0 Billion2011 Revenue: $1.0 Billion Key SuppliersKey Suppliers
At a Glance
Packaging
2.6% 3.0%
3.5%
4.0% 4.6%
5.6%
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2015
Operating Income % of Sales
ROICROIC Expanding ProfitsExpanding Profits
15.3%
18.4%
22.4%
30.0%
39.2%
48.6%
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Target
6 – 7.5%
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Value Proposition and Transformation Highlights
Value Proposition
• North America-based distributor with expanding global reach providing
key plastic processors and market segments with best-in-class suppliers
products, service and delivery with a commitment to develop value-added
solutions to enhance customer profitability
Transformation Highlights
• Significant market share gains with key suppliers
,
> $5B Addressable Market
• Significant market share gains with key suppliers
� Proprietary PolyOne technology
� Dow Corning
• Improved sales mix and profitability by shifting to
non-cyclical businesses like healthcare
• Established presence in Brazil and Asia in 2011
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Key Differentiators
• Product offering
� Breadth and depth; industry leading suppliers
• Sales and marketing capability
• Customer service / logistics operations
� Customer survey results – consistent best-in-class performance
� Leading on-time delivery
• Management team experience and stability
• Lean Six Sigma
� Solving our customers’ unmet needs
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$102.8
$207.2
Healthcare Revenue
• Strong market segmentation
provides focused resourcing
to accelerate growth
• Expanding global reach meets
Areas of Focus
$66.0
$182.4
National Accounts Revenue
• Expanding global reach meets
customers’ needs and creates
competitive differentiation
• Selling skills & product
application knowledge to
target executives & engineers
($ millions)
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Critical Imperatives
• Invest in commercial resources to accelerate growth
• Expand healthcare and key account revenues
• Broaden geographic reach and develop new markets and
channel partnerships
Critical Imperatives and 2015 Goal
channel partnerships
• Continue to improve working capital efficiency
and superior cash flow generation
2015 Goal
• 6 - 7.5% return on sales
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will further increase value for customers and stakeholders," Mr.
is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
The company adds value to global customers and improves sustainability through formulating materials, such as:
https://www.avient.com/investor-center/news/polyone-begin-specialty-engineered-materials-production-india
expansive portfolio of high-performance solutions and services.
We're proud to be their materials and service provider as we innovate and grow together for the future."
is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/LFT Application Development Center Bulletin.pdf
TECHNICAL
SERVICES
Avient Long Fiber Technologies
Application Development
SUCCESS.
Prototype Capabilities
• First articles
• Burn off (pyrolysis) studies to analyze fiber
retention and performance
• Customer trials to display new program tooling
• Agile formulation modification, if determined it’s
needed after first article runs
• Injection molding machines ranging
from 50–550 ton
Avient’s unique combination of materials, design
expertise, and technical services enables us to
conquer challenges and unlock the potential of
innovation in meaningful and dynamic ways for
customers around the world.
Our people, ideas,
material science, resources, and unwavering
commitment to service enables customers to
transform their visions into groundbreaking products.
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Copyright © 2023, Avient Corporation.
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is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
The company is dedicated to serving customers in diverse industries around the globe, by creating value through collaboration, innovation and an unwavering commitment to excellence.
is an ACC Responsible Care® certified company committed to its customers, employees, communities and shareholders through ethical, sustainable and fiscally responsible principles.
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All FlexOne units are supplied directly
from Avient’s distribution hub, ensuring
consistent of customer service and
eliminating variation of supply.
Avient Technical Service will order and deliver a 1L
or 3L PlanetPak trial kit to your site.
3.
Our Technical Service Engineer will arrive with
the FlexOne Trial Unit, plug it in and run the trial.