For the past three years, the Avient Design team has been actively cultivating a meaningful relationship with Virginia Tech's esteemed design program, leading to the sponsoring of a design project that challenges students to create innovative products featuring Avient materials.

By intersecting our broad portfolio of technologies with the product roadmaps of our customers, we help create differentiated and high-performance products that make the world better and more sustainable.

The company is dedicated to serving customers in diverse industries around the globe, by creating value through collaboration, innovation and an unwavering commitment to excellence. 

The company is dedicated to serving customers in diverse industries around the globe, by creating value through collaboration, innovation and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

The center’s name, ISHA, also means ‘one who protects and creates’ in Sanskrit, which emphasizes Avient’s vision to become the leading creator of specialty sustainable materials and, in doing so, to help protect our planet,” said Vikas Vij, managing director at Avient India.

It is possible to create injection or compression molded plastic parts that would be difficult or impossible to machine using traditional materials such as steel or aluminum.

At Avient, we create specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world.

These additives are created to enhance bioplastics so you can continue delivering top-end products to the market. OnColor™ Bio color concentrates are specially created to perform well with bioplastics such as PLA, PHA, PHBV, PBS, PBAT, and special blends of those materials.

Control the build-up of static charges to create safer, statically-dissipated thermoplastic parts. These additives are created to enhance bioplastics so you can continue delivering top-end products to the market.

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