Media contact Michelle Maniscalco Marketing Communications Manager, North America PolyOne Corporation +1 440-930-1988 michelle.maniscalco@avient.com

Media contact Jennifer Huang  Senior Manager, Marketing Communications Asia  Avient Corporation   jennifer.huang@avient.com +86 21 60284888

They are based on management’s expectations that involve a number of business risks and uncertainties, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements.

Trade Media Contact: Michelle Maniscalco Marketing Communications Manager, North America PolyOne Corporation +1 440-930-1988 michelle.maniscalco@avient.com

The all-new Dyneema.com website will form the heart of campaigns, customer engagement, and our brand growth strategy,” says Jan-Lodewijk Lindemulder, Vice President and General Manager for Dyneema®, at Avient.

Kedrowski Page 38 Operational Excellence • Operational Excellence is a never-ending quest for improvement in response to the voice of our customers and shareholders • It is all about strengthening our capabilities to deliver value flawlessly to our customers deliver value flawlessly to our customers • It challenges us to enhance our productivity, profitability, and efficiency in all phases of our business, from safety to quality to waste elimination to environmental stewardship Page 39 Lean Six Sigma Initiative • In 2009, Lean Six Sigma was launched to improve execution skills across all businesses, functions, and global regions • A company-wide diagnostic was conducted, resulting in identification of six conducted, resulting in identification of six strategic improvement platforms • Financial targets were estimated, resources identified and trained results delivered , Page 40 PolyOne OSHA Recordable Incidence Rate 4 5 6 5.1 Safety Performance *Rubber And Plastics Manufacturing Industry (2010 Bureau of Labor Statistics). 0 1 2 3 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Industry Average 1.4 1.3 1.1 1.1 0.85 0.65 0.57 Page 41 • Exemplary on-time delivery • Best-in-class working capital % of sales 81% 87% 88% 95% 93% 92% 94% 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 On-Time Delivery* Lean Six Sigma Delivering Results • Approximately $200M in cash driven by working capital improvements 16.2% 14.4% 18.9% 11.7% 9.6% 9.6% 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 WC % of Sales 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 *As measured to customer request date Page 42 40.0% Percent of Associates Trained in LSS World’s Best Start-up Program in 2009* World’s Best Business Process Excellence Program in 2012* Award-Winning Lean Six Sigma Program *Both awards received from International Quality and Productivity Center 16.5% 40.0% 2009 2011 Page 43 • Globally leverage strategic supplier management best practices • Implement world class demand management processes Critical Imperatives • Improve operational reliability and efficiencies • Optimize global freight management Drive 50 – 100 basis points of gross margin expansion per year Page 44 Page 45

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Senior management believes these measures are useful to investors because they allow for comparison to PolyOne's performance in prior periods without the effect of items that, by their nature, tend to obscure PolyOne's operating results due to the potential variability across periods based on timing, frequency and magnitude. Senior management has referenced adjusted EPS excluding the impact of additional shares issued in February 2020. Accordingly, for purposes of comparability to the January 28, 2020 guidance, and prior year, management has referenced adjusted EPS excluding the impact of the additional shares issued in February.

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