Homepage // News Center // PolyOne at ITMA 2016: Meeting Stringent Environmental Regulations with Advanced Fiber Coloring Solutions OnColor™ Fiber Colorant Solutions offer environmental benefits with superior spinning performance to help manufacturers enhance their speed to market. ColorMatrix™ Fiber Colorant Solutions feature a breakthrough liquid melt extrusion spin coloring technology for polyester fiber.

Grades can be reinforced with glass, carbon, or aramid fibers to meet various application needs. Lower Carbon Footprint Alternative Explore LubriOne™ PKE thermoplastics formulated with polyketone resulting in 61% less carbon emissions than nylon and acetal.

Combined, these innovations extended the spinning rods’ durability for textile equipment running at line speeds of up to 20,000 RPM. 

Examples include: • Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy • Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint • Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility Avient employs approximately 8,400 associates and is certified ACC Responsible Care®, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work®.

The Mevopur product line also includes color and additive concentrates based on polymers with 70%-100% bio-content and pre-tested raw materials which can help to reduce carbon footprint and offer alternatives to fossil-based grades. This includes Trilliant HC8910 glass-filled polyketone (PK) formulations with a lower carbon footprint than traditional nylon (PA6 and PA66) formulations for a high-performance alternative in applications such as biopharmaceutical clamps. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™.

reSound™ Ultra-Low Carbon Footprint Thermoplastic Elastomers Developed to support a global shift toward net zero CO2 emissions for next-generation products, these reSound™ TPE formulations deliver negative, neutral, or near-zero carbon footprint values. The first grades in the series offer an industry-first product carbon footprint (PCF) between -0.46 to -0.02. reSound ultra-low carbon footprint TPEs are available globally, and each PCF is location specific to more accurately support carbon neutrality efforts.

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Homepage // News Center // PolyOne Natural Fiber Materials and Metal Replacement Solutions Featured at Fakuma 2015 PolyOne will also update show visitors on the status of developments, such as its reSound™ NF natural fiber-reinforced solutions. Introduced in March 2015, these sustainable formulations—with at least 30% engineered natural fiber by weight—offer an alternative to glass fiber reinforced polypropylene compounds, with comparable mechanical properties at 5-10% lower density.

Homepage // News Center // Easier Optical Fiber Installation for High-Speed Connectivity with New PolyOne Low CoF Formulation PolyOne offer a full range of specialty polymer solutions for manufacturing optical fiber cable, including for tight buffer, loose tube, fiber bundle, and sheathing applications. Caption: Optical fiber cable made with ECCOH 5702 solutions from PolyOne is easier to install in complex conduit and over long distances.