When designing innovative consumer products, it is extremely important to protect brand equity and still deliver the performance and aesthetic characteristics that the end consumer desires," said Walter Ripple, vice president and general manager for PolyOne's thermoplastic elastomer business, GLS. These solutions enable companies to readily identify counterfeit products with easy-to-use methods based on additives and unique identifiers called taggants.

We continually look for ways to enhance our vinyl technologies to deliver greater value to customers,” said Jim Mattey, global marketing director for Performance, Products & Solutions at PolyOne. With these new grades, we effectively help to lower our customers’ scrap rates and material usage while allowing them to achieve a premium quality end product.”

Avient Corporation provides specialized and sustainable materials solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy

Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), with expected 2021 revenues of $4.6 to $4.7 billion, provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy

The increased use of rPET in PET bottles can lead to increased AA levels, but can also compromise bottle mechanical strength and create blowouts, both of which reduce productivity and increase scrap rates. ColorMatrix AAzure was developed in response to the need for brand owners and convertors to find solutions that enable increased levels of rPET in their products without reducing performance or quality.

Manufacturers of catheters can benefit through increased production efficiency by eliminating a need for co-extrusion, which is typically required to manufacture striped catheters, as well as reducing material usage and complexity. Catheter manufacturers can now offer a commercially viable product that provides excellent visibility, both optically and under X-ray, enabling performance improvements and efficiencies in the healthcare field.”

Its thermally conductive properties allow for effective heat management, but material and production costs can be high. Case Study LED Manufacturer Innovates and Saves with Polymer Heat Sinks Shift from metal drives improved product line for component manufacturer Read More May 30, 2015

Its thermally conductive properties allow for effective heat management, but material and production costs can be high. Case Study LED Manufacturer Innovates and Saves with Polymer Heat Sinks Shift from metal drives improved product line for component manufacturer Read More May 30, 2015

is a medical device manufacturer whose pain therapy products help patients manage pain and reduce the use of medications such as opiates. Competitive differentiation: The Biowave device is often referred to by its blue color, helping the product stand out from competitors.

Hear from Meenali Parsekar, product manager for wire and cable materials at Avient to learn more about the manufacturing considerations for photovoltaic cable We asked Meenali Parsekar, Product Manager, Wire and Cable at Avient, to find out.