The initiative, sponsored by Avient Design, a highly specialized group of industrial designers and project engineers at Avient Corporation, began in September 2024, focusing on mentoring students in designing with Avient’s Polystrand™ thermoplastic composite materials, leading to the development of a range of innovative and practical product concepts. The six-week project is aimed to harness the distinctive properties of Avient’s Polystrand thermoplastic composites, including their strength, durability, and lightweight characteristics, to create cutting-edge designs for the sporting goods industry. The final presentations showcased a diverse array of innovative product concepts that effectively leveraged the properties of Polystrand continuous glass-fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites.

and later DuPont Dow Elastomers, a global joint venture. 

where she served most recently as business president of Elastomers, Electrical and Telecommunications.    

and later DuPont Dow Elastomers, a global joint venture. 

We purchased assets from Kraton’s thermoplastic elastomer business to augment our leading GLS offerings and expertise. Kraton), to expand its global footprint and expertise in thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) 3POLYONE CORPORATION 4 innovation and design. Kraton), to expand its global footprint and expertise in thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) innovation and design.

Customizable colors and pre-tested raw materials to help simplify production and minimize risk, and impact-resistant thermoplastics for extended product life. Customizable colors and pre-tested raw materials to help simplify production and minimize risk, and impact-resistant thermoplastics for extended product life.

The design and lightweighting benefits of thermoplastics with the conductive performance of metal PREPERM™ Low Loss Dielectric Thermoplastics

Thermoplastic structural composites give you greater design freedom. Thermoplastic structural composites give you greater design freedom.

Smarter Materials™ High Performance Thermoplastics: eBook Learn about high-performance thermoplastics that surpass commodity and engineering resins

Hammerhead™ Marine Panels: with a weight savings of more than 50% versus plywood, these continuous-fiber reinforced thermoplastic sandwich panels offer boat manufacturers a lighter, more efficient alternative to traditional marine construction materials. Lightweighting is also part of this trend, and its Polystrand™ thermoplastic composite continuous fiber tapes and laminates are providing the structural strength to replace metals while amplifying design freedom.