https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2025-07/Caps _ Closures Industry Bulletin.pdf
FOCUS AREA KEY REQUIREMENTS AVIENT TECHNOLOGIES Visual aesthetics • Offer custom color design and special effects • Provide brand differentiation • Utilize cost-effective solutions • Enhance design and identification • Allow permanent and repeatable markings • Solid colorants • Lower cost-to-color liquid color concentrates • Special effects colorants – molded metallics, plated • Smartbatch™ Combination Colorants and Additives • Laser marking for decoration and identification Dimensional stability • Limit shrinkage and warpage • Maintain mechanical properties • Solid colorants • Nucleating agents Production efficiencies • Improve cycle times • Nucleating agents • Smartbatch colorants and additives • Laser marking additives • Clean processing additives • Slip agents • Antistatic additives • Laser marking for coding Sustainability and increased post-consumer recycled content (PCR) usage • Control viscosity to maintain operational efficiencies • Provide lightweighting • Extend shelf life • Mitigate odor • Melt flow modifiers or enhancers • Nucleating agents • Predictive laser measurements • Colors that manage warpage and dimensional stability • Chemical foaming agents • APR-approved oxygen scavenger in the closure • UV barrier additives • Odor adsorbers • Clarifiers • Compatibilizers and heat stabilizers Performance • Protect brand integrity • Enhance consumer experience • Prevent environmental stress cracking and hinge failure • Maintain seal • UV blockers • Solid colorants and liquid color concentrates • Impact modifiers • Antimicrobial additives • Antioxidants • TPE liners 1.844.4AVIENT www.avient.com Copyright © 2025, Avient Corporation.
Avient is a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions and services that transform customer challenges into opportunities.
Our range of world-class services includes: Color Technology: Custom color design, saturated colors, and special effects to fill market niches and eliminate secondary operations Color & Design Services: Trend and color insights, and product development assistance to optimize design and gain speed to market, include collaborative workshops at our ColorWorks™ Design & Technology centers Regulatory Coordination: Aid with new product approvals to reduce regulatory overhead and minimize risk Field Technical Service: Support for tool design, startup and production optimization to gain manufacturing efficiencies Sustainability: Innovative materials and solutions to help you meet your sustainability goals
https://www.avient.com/investor-center/news/polyone-announces-first-quarter-2019-results
Sustainable solutions include next generation packaging technologies which extend shelf-life for perishable beverages.
We are continuing to invest in key end markets and innovation, and as this quarter has demonstrated, our investments in composites and sustainable solutions are paying off."
The company adds value to global customers and improves sustainability through formulating materials, such as:
https://www.avient.com/products/polymer-colorants/solid-color-masterbatches/oncolor-sc-super-concentrate-technologies
Polyolefins – Aligning with Sustainability Goals
Overview of ways to achieve sustainability using polyolefins
Sustainable Formulations
https://www.avient.com/products/polymer-colorants/fiber-colorants
Additionally, the textile industry is under pressure to become more agile and more sustainable.
Sustainable Formulations
Sustainability for a Better Tomorrow
https://www.avient.com/resource-center?document_type=59&all=1
Sustainable Engineered Polymers
Webinar: Sustainable TPEs Explained
Sustainability in Packaging - Video
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2024-10/Avient CDP Climate Change %26 Water Submission 20241001.pdf
Sustainability is a key driver of our innovation strategy, and in 2023, 90% of the projects in our innovation pipeline were focused on sustainable solutions.
Our technology goals are aligned with our sustainability goals to drive sustainable innovation.
UN SDG- Avient aligns its sustainability goals and business models with five sustainable development goals, i.e.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2023-03/AVNT Mar 2023 Earnings Presentation.pdf
Examples include: • Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy • Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint • Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility Avient is a certified ACC Responsible Care® and a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.
OUR VISION At Avient, we create specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world.
We create specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/OnColor REC Polymer Colorants Product Bulletin.pdf
OnColor™ REC Polymer Colorants OnColor™ REC Polymer Colorants are derived from recycled content, making them a sustainable alternative to concentrates using virgin carbon black.
KEY CHARACTERISTICS • Derived from recycled content including end-of-life tires • Available for multiple resins and custom solutions • Retains performance characteristics of traditional carbon black in plastics • Passes REACH and RoHS requirements • Prop 65 letters available • Certified by TÜV Rheinland • PCF calculation available on request MARKET AND APPLICATIONS OnColor REC Polymer Colorants are sustainable solutions across a wide variety of industries and applications, including: • Automotive • Wire and cable • Building and construction • Appliances • Electrical and electronics • Industrial molding applications • Office furniture 1.844.4AVIENT www.avient.com Copyright © 2024, Avient Corporation.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2022-05/Avient_ALL_Policies_2022_0.pdf
Product Stewardship activities encompassing a life cycle approach, ensure sustainable management of our products and an open dialogue with all interested parties.
Bob Patterson Chairman, President, and CEO August 1, 2020 Product Stewardship Policy Product Stewardship plays a significant role in Avient’s sustainable and ethical business practices.
Sustainable and ethical management of our products protects our employees, customers and communities in which we operate, while maintaining customer confidence in Avient’s materials.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2021-05/avient-responsible-care-ehs-s-policies-2021.pdf
Product Stewardship activities encompassing a life cycle approach, ensure sustainable management of our products and an open dialogue with all interested parties.
Bob Patterson Chairman, President, and CEO August 1, 2020 Product Stewardship Policy Product Stewardship plays a significant role in Avient’s sustainable and ethical business practices.
Sustainable and ethical management of our products protects our employees, customers and communities in which we operate, while maintaining customer confidence in Avient’s materials.