https://www.avient.com/news/plastics-and-rubber-thailand-2024-include-avients-showcase-specialty-and-sustainable-materials
Avient’s featured range of products on display includes customized protection film materials, adhesive TPEs for textile fabric, bio-based TPEs, and specialty engineered materials developed to enhance product performance in the building and construction, automotive, and consumer industries.
More brand owners in the plastics and rubber industries are now looking for sustainable and innovative alternative materials that can also meet performance demands," says Flight Xu, General Manager, Specialty Engineered Materials Asia for Avient, “As a global provider of specialized TPEs and specialty engineered materials, we have also developed lightweight, recycled, bio-based, and eco-conscious materials with a lower carbon footprint than virgin alternatives to support sustainability goals from conception to commercialization.”
reSound™ BIO TPEs: contains 40 to 90 percent bio-based content within a wide hardness range (which can help reduce carbon footprint) and has performance characteristics that are comparable to standard TPEs
https://www.avient.com/news/avient-present-broad-array-innovative-and-sustainable-materials-solutions-chinaplas-2025
Colorant Chromatics™ Transcend™ Premier Healthcare Colorants: based on polysulfone and PEEK resins with the capability of withstanding up to 1,000 autoclave cycles and high-heat sterilization at 150°C, these colorants are formulated with ingredient materials that have been successfully tested for ISO 10993 biocompatibility and are available in a line of bright and vivid transparent or opaque shades
ColorForward™ 2026: an annual color trend forecasting guide for the plastics industry developed based on global societal trends to support the development of impactful aesthetics for new consumer products.
reSound™ REC Recycled Content Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPEs): based on post-consumer recycle (PCR) for reduced carbon footprint
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2023-07/Avient_CodeConduct_2023_USA.pdf
Remarks based on these differences are
often demeaning and offensive, and are not tolerated.
Competition
Avient strives to earn business based on superior products,
services and performance.
Avient makes fair and fact-based comparisons of product
performance.
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/whats-difference-tpes-vs-silicones
For example, the use of sustainable content such as bio-based or recycled sources can lower a PCF.
Keep in mind that a limited number of toolmakers specialize in LSR molds—and many are based in Europe.
Check out https://www.avient.com/tpe-knowledge-base to explore the possibilities.
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/whats-difference-tpes-vs-silicones?ind[]=21537
For example, the use of sustainable content such as bio-based or recycled sources can lower a PCF.
Keep in mind that a limited number of toolmakers specialize in LSR molds—and many are based in Europe.
Check out https://www.avient.com/tpe-knowledge-base to explore the possibilities.
https://www.avient.com/sustainability-2020
Part of this process is to help sites develop their own EH&S Maturity Road Map which guides them through the implementation of our standards through a risk based approach.
Our security programs are risk-based, flexible and responsive to the environments in which we operate.
In 2020, 100% of our required associates completed web-based cybersecurity training to help them identify and respond to potential cybersecurity risks and reinforce safe behaviors.
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/polymer-services-frequency-asked-questions?rtype[]=1164
It also provides context on development timelines, some industries have tight timelines based on annual launch windows while others have a long specification process.
Polymer Pyramid - Base Resins
Equipment Requirements
Based on the material selected, there may be tweaks that can be incorporated to optimize manufacturability.
https://www.avient.com/industries/healthcare/labware-diagnostics/laboratory-equipment
Color and additive solutions based on biopolymers pre-tested to ISO, US Pharmacopeia, European Pharmacopeia, and ICHQ3D protocols to reduce product carbon footprint
Mevopur™ Healthcare Bio-Based Polymer Solutions for Medical Devices and Pharmaceutical Packaging (English)
Learn more about the benefits of using Mevopur Healthcare Bio-based Polymer Solutions in medical devices and pharmaceutical packaging (English language version)
https://www.avient.com/industries/healthcare/drug-delivery-systems/auto-injectors-and-drug-delivery-pens
Bio-based polymer solutions to reduce carbon footprint
Mevopur™ Healthcare Bio-based Polymer Solutions
Mevopur™ Healthcare Bio-based Polymer Solutions
https://www.avient.com/knowledge-base/article/overmolding-processing
TPE Knowledge Base
The most commonly GLS recommended color concentrates are based on polypropylene (PP) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU).
To make dispersion easier, the color concentrate should have slightly lower viscosity (higher MFI) than the base TPE.