Homepage // News Center // Avient Announces Phoenix Location to Serve as a ColorWorks™ Design & Technology Center Avient Announces Phoenix Location to Serve as a ColorWorks™ Design & Technology Center, Expanding Innovative Color Solutions and Guidance for Plastic Color and Design   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  

Learn how to build a FlexCart™ G Information on the application and use of light shield additives to protect products from light damage How can you make the most of color, from design through processing?

Homepage // News Center // From Inspiration to Innovation: PolyOne Launches All New Website The new PolyOne.com consolidates the company’s global portfolio from 12 legacy websites into one customer-centric experience. Case studies, webinars, and insights are located in a new idea center that links to a searchable resource database filled with white papers, expert articles, videos and literature.

Avient Specialty Inks is excited to exhibit its sustainable portfolio of reduced energy use and eco-conscious inks with a new video showcasing how the team is working to lower ink curing temperatures and expand PVC-free portfolios to help customers meet their sustainability goals. The Avient Specialty Inks team is exhibiting in booth 1127 at the Impressions Expo in Long Beach, California, from January 20-22, 2023. 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

Sustainability experts from Avient will be on site to discuss the latest innovative solutions and help address recycling challenges. They will draw on research conducted at Avient’s CycleWorks™ Innovation Center, which focuses on improving mechanical recycling.   Avient will exhibit in booth B52 at PRSE 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 19th to 20th, 2024.  

Avient also achieved our electricity goal in 2024, reaching 61% electricity being from renewable sources by leveraging green electricity purchase agreements among other sourcing initiatives. Additionally, 50 of our manufacturing sites globally sent no waste to landfills in 2024. We have been working with internal and external stakeholders to understand how we can achieve our goal to become carbon neutral in line with climate science. 

a leading manufacturer of food processing equipment, on converting the support yoke of its Quantum™ Motor from metal to plastic. Targeting an alternative to cast aluminum, Avient and Bettcher teamed up to re-engineer the yoke, which supports a 25-pound motor that powers a variety of meat trimming tools. This project is an excellent example of how the strength and toughness of Complēt long fiber composites offer a light weight solution and an exceptional substitute for metals across many industries.

Read more about how automotive aftermarket parts are making the switch from metal to plastic by using long fiber thermoplastics Learn about the many LFT capabilities and how they translate into desirable product benefits. Learn how long fiber composite pellets are made

The PCR Color Prediction Service can help shorten the time-to-launch of new product ranges, allowing fast and reliable checks prior to initiating sample development.  Facilitates transfer from one PCR to another Find out how Avient helped L'Oréal achieve color consistency across their global PCR packaging with the PCR Color Prediction Service.

Homepage // News Center // Explore Ballistic Panels for Enhanced Security Solutions from Avient at GSX 2024 GlasArmor thermoset panels are constructed from layers of woven e-glass fiber reinforcements with a proprietary resin system. 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