https://www.avient.com/investor-center/news/polyone-announces-first-quarter-2017-results
Our first priority at times like this is to ensure that our customers get uninterrupted exemplary service from us, and I'm pleased we were able to do so during the first quarter.
Further fueling growth are the unique service offerings we provide, such as IQ Design, LSS Customer First, and web-based customer interfacing," added Mr.
is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
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What services and innovative
polymer solutions could you
leverage to solve challenges in
your next generation designs?
We are dedicated to serving our
Healthcare customers with:
• Unparalleled breadth and innovation in
material technologies
• Design and engineering services to optimize
applications for production and performance
• Streamlined global supply chain and
regulatory coordination to mitigate and
reduce risk
Because we are really good at solving the world’s most complex
material science problems.
Our services go beyond what our customers need.
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Splicing & respooling services available
Product/Service Overview
Custom twisting enables an endless amount of twist levels on a variety of synthetic fibers
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Customized Performance to Meet Demanding Environmental and Physical Requirements
Provided a custom concentrate material for flexibility in tailoring static dissipation performance
Product/Service Overview
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Innovator of materials solutions to help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.
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HealthCare
Transportation
8%
Textiles
Target
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• Trend toward more
affordable housing
favors our product
1.5
2.0
2.5
Housing Starts
(in million units)
50 year average
Market Dynamics
• Ultimate housing
recovery presents
substantial upside to
already record-
setting results
Source: Historical Data from the US Census Bureau,
2012 estimate is a PolyOne projection.
0.0
0.5
1.0
'87 '89 '91 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12
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Value Proposition
• Premier provider of specialized vinyl and supply chain solutions, leading
the industry in innovation and service
Transformation Highlights
• Management upgrades ensure that each PP&S business
Value Proposition and Transformation Highlights
• Management upgrades ensure that each PP&S business
maximizes performance
• Asset realignment and Lean Six Sigma reduce costs
• Strengthened relationship with winning customers
• Increased differentiation in all business units
> $12B Addressable Market
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Key Differentiators
• Providing application design, material design
and / or process design assistance not available
from competitors
• Capability to improve joint value streams
• We are the best innovator in our space • We are the best innovator in our space
• Expanding customers’ opportunities
by providing innovative materials
and marketing ideas
• We provide world-class customer
service and delivery performance
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13.7% 14.3%
15.5%
9.9%
6.2%
5.4%
WC % of Sales
• Best-in-class working
capital management and
delivery performance
• Improved raw material
Areas of Focus – Operational Excellence
89.1%
92.0%
94.2%
93.4% 93.4% 94.0%
On-Time Delivery
• Improved raw material
positions, sourcing savings
• PolyOne pilot site for many
LSS and manufacturing
excellence programs
*As measured to customer request date
*
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• reFlexTM Bioplasticizers
Applications: Wide variety of flexible vinyl-based products
• GeonTM HC for Healthcare
� Applications: Medical device housings, specialty tubing
� Customer benefits: Withstand aggressive antiseptics
Key Innovations
� Applications: Wide variety of flexible vinyl-based products
� Customer benefits: Lower carbon footprint,
improved productivity
• GeonTM SF Super Flow
� Applications: Large appliance parts, molded siding panels
� Customer benefits: Flame retardancy, detergent resistance
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Critical Imperatives and 2015 Goal
Critical Imperatives
• Accelerate innovation - grow in new applications not
historically served with vinyl
• Drive continuous improvement in manufacturing and
working capital efficienciesworking capital efficiencies
• Selectively leverage construction recovery
2015 Goal
• 9 - 12% return on sales
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Standard and custom colors
Product/Service Overview
Product/Service Overview
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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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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
https://www.avient.com/investor-center/news/polyone-appoints-giuseppe-di-salvo-vice-president-investor-relations-justin-m-hess-vice-president-corporate-controller
NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced two internal appointments effective
is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
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