As a result, this partnership will provide enhanced service for our customers in the economic heart of South America.”

For example, through these processes, we have identified potential human rights risks, including: protecting the health and safety of our employees and contractors, addressing modern slavery in the supply chain and preventing, minimizing and eliminating waste contamination in the environment. Ongoing potential risk identification and mitigation in occupational health and safety is critical to our culture of safety and sustainability. Focus on continuous improvement in this area is described in Occupational Health and Safety.

This guide will help you decide how to resolve these conflicts and choose the best course of action. Does it show respect for our associates, shareholders, customers, suppliers and communities? Therefore, our health and safety policies, which apply to all Avient associates, is to safeguard the health and well-being of each person while at work.

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Increasing PCR especially can be tricky, but here are some considerations for achieving those higher percentages: • Using more PCR can affect the color of your package as PCR streams can vary from region to region. It is to enable our customers’ innovation and sustainability goals through world class products and services and excellence in the four cornerstones of: WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS MAKE PRODUCTS THAT ARE MORE SUSTAINABLE IN 8 DIFFERENT WAYS: • Lightweighting • Reduced Energy Use • Volatile Organic Compound Reduction • Recycle Solutions • Bio-polymers • Eco-conscious • Sustainable Infrastructure • Human Health & Safety For more information on how we can help, visit avient.com 1.844.4AVIENT www.avient.com Copyright © 2021, Avient Corporation.

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said, "We plan to host a live webcast to highlight current demand trends for sustainable solutions and how we help our customers reach their sustainability goals. The presentations will do a deep dive on the eight ways we approach sustainability, which include lightweighting, reduced energy use, sustainable infrastructure and human health & safety, to name a few." Senior management uses gross margin before special items and operating income before special items to assess performanceand allocate resources because senior management believes that these measures are useful in understanding current profitabilitylevels and how it may serve as a basis for future performance.

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The Company does not provide reconciliations of forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures, such as adjusted EPS and adjusted EBITDA, to the most comparable GAAP financial measures on a forward-looking basis because the Company is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items and the information is not available without unreasonable effort. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit markets that could adversely impact the availability of credit already arranged and the availability and cost of credit in the future; the effect on foreign operations of currency fluctuations, tariffs and other political, economic and regulatory risks; disruptions or inefficiencies in our supply chain, logistics, or operations; changes in laws and regulations in jurisdictions where we conduct business, including with respect to plastics and climate change; fluctuations in raw material prices, quality and supply, and in energy prices and supply; demand for our products and services; production outages or material costs associated with scheduled or unscheduled maintenance programs; unanticipated developments that could occur with respect to contingencies such as litigation and environmental matters; an inability to raise or sustain prices for products or services; our ability to pay regular quarterly cash dividends and the amounts and timing of any future dividends; information systems failures and cyberattacks; amounts for cash and non-cash charges related to restructuring plans that may differ from original estimates, including because of timing changes associated with the underlying actions; our ability to achieve strategic objectives and successfully integrate acquisitions, including the implementation of a cloud-based enterprise resource planning system, S/4HANA; and other factors affecting our business beyond our control, including without limitation, changes in the general economy, changes in interest rates, changes in the rate of inflation, geopolitical conflicts and any recessionary conditions.