NYSE: AVNT), a leading provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions, has completed its purchase of the protective materials business of DSM (including the Dyneema® brand), which will now be called Avient Protective Materials and reported within the company's Specialty Engineered Materials segment.

existing portfolio of complementary solutions in a new comprehensive platform to be called PolyOne Advanced Composites. 

PolyOne also announced that it has changed its name and will now be called Avient. 

will be provided on the company's second quarter 2017 conference call.

They are intended for use in the spin-dyeing, also called dope-dyeing, process which incorporates color and/or functional additives during yarn extrusion saving on energy and water use.

To participate in the audio-only portion of the call, dial 1-844-835- 7433 (domestic) or 1-914-495-8589 (international) and provide conference ID number 4774915.

Consumer, Packaging, Healthcare, Electrical & Electronics, Appliance Clear and heat resistant TPEs Ultra clear grades Ultra soft TPE gels, 30 shore OO FDA, USP Class VI, ISO 10993 approved grades NSF and UL listings Sterilizable under autoclave, radiation, and EtO gas GLS™ THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS * Commercially available in North America only NAME BASE RESIN(S) AVAILABLE FEATURES1 ECCOH™ Polyolefin Flame retardant, low smoke and fume, zero halogen (LSFOH) Cross-linkable grades Chemical, oil, and gel resistant Flexible, low friction, easy-peel, and high speed processing Compatible with Avient additives and color masterbatches FireCon™ CPE, CPE Alloy Low and medium voltage cable jacketing Flame retardant and 90°C deformation resistance Oil resistance RoHS grades available Maxxam™ FR PE, PP UL Yellow Card for plenum applications Halogen-free flame retardant grades available Maxxam™ SY Foamable PP co-polymer Easy processing Variety of final densities available Syncure™ XLPE High performance moisture cure technology UL bulletinized XHHW2 and VW1 Temperature, abrasion, and oil resistant WIRE AND CABLE SPECIALTY THERMOPLASTICS To learn more, please visit avient.com or call +1.844.4AVIENT (+1.844.428.4368).

called “universal overmolding TPE.”

Ezcabarte calle H Nº3 , 31194 Oricain, Spain Avient Corporation Design and Manufacture of Colorants and Additives for Plastics 700/848 Moo 1,Tambol Phan Thong, Amata City Chonburi Industrial Estate Phan Thong Chonburi 20160, Thailand Avient Corporation Manufacture of Colour and Additive Concentrates, Thermoplastic Resins and Specialty Compounds Via Lainate 26, 20005 Pogliano Milanese, Italy Avient Corporation Manufacture of Masterbatches 329 Tungsten Rd, Strydompark , 2194 Randburg, South Africa PolyOne Polymers India Private Limited Design & Manufacture of Color, Additive Concentrate & Specialty Survey No.344/1-2-3, Rania Works, Sakarda Bhadarwa Road Rania Gujarat 391780 India Avient Corporation Design and Manufacture of Color and Additive Concentrates, Thermoplastic Resins and Specialty Compounds 2nd Industrial City, Al-Kharj Road , 11432 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Crta.

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