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.

Customized formulations can include additional additives to modify properties such as surface appearance, bubble size, or slip and release properties.

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Avient announces expansion to Cesa™ functional additives and NEUSoft™ TPU portfolios and will highlight its innovative material solutions for healthcare at MD&M West 2025 This includes introducing Cesa™ Non-PFAS Low-Retention Additives and launching an expanded NEUSoft™ Thermoplastic Polyurethanes (TPUs) portfolio with an express color palette.  NEW – Cesa Non-PFAS Low-Retention Additives are newly introduced and will be available soon.

Avient Corporation highlights sustainable innovations at NPE 2024, including Nymax™ REC Recycled Nylon Formulations, Versaflex™ HC BIO BT218 TPEs, ColorMatrix™ Capture™ Oxygen Scavenger, and Cesa™ Non-PFAS Process Aid for Extrusion, exemplifying the company’s commitment to delivering advanced sustainable solutions.   Cesa™ Non-PFAS Process Aid for Extrusion: for use in polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) applications, it reduces friction between the polymer and the metal during extrusion comparable to a traditional processing aid but is formulated without fluoropolymers which may be classifiable as per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) and will be presented during Avient’s technical seminar at NPE, “PFAS Alternatives: 2024 and Beyond,” by Sean Bernhardt, Senior Research and Development Manager, Color, Additives, & Inks, Americas at Avient, on May 7 at 3 p.m. and May 8 at 1 p.m. Cesa™ Unify™ A4R Polyolefin Compatibilizer: also a finalist for Product Technology Innovation of the Year for sustainable packaging at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2024, this innovative additive enables the use of recycled polyolefins by creating a homogenous polymer mixture, bridging the gap between virgin and recycled polymers, promoting circularity and sustainability – winner will be announced during PRSE 2024 in Amsterdam, June 19-20, 2024 

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