Khandpur added, “In addition, our 2024 safety performance represented the safest year in company history and evidenced that we’ll continue to build upon the many proven foundational strengths of Avient as we execute our new strategy.” 2025 Outlook “As we shared at our Investor Day in December, we laid out a path to grow organic sales 100 – 200 basis points above GDP with margin expansion by intersecting high growth markets and secular trends with our technologies to create platforms that scale,” said Jamie Beggs, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Avient Corporation. dollar,” added Ms. Khandpur added, “Despite the near-term uncertainties in the macro environment, we remain focused on what we can control: staying close to our customers and executing our strategy.

During injection molding, longer fibers align and intertwine to form an internal skeletal network, enabling a unique set of performance characteristics, including: • High strength-to-weight ratio which facilitates metal replacement to achieve weight reduction • Added stiffness and strength to carry loads while resisting creep deformation • Increased toughness to absorb impact forces without permanent damage • High cyclical fatigue endurance to resist cracking and crack propagation • Mechanical performance that is retained across a wide temperature range • Improved dimensional stability with nearly isotropic properties and low thermal expansion • Corrosion and chemical resistance Long fiber composites provide a combination of stiffness, strength, and toughness performance enhancements not available together when using other reinforcing methods, while retaining the single- step processing simplicity of injection molding.

Improve performance, enhance your capability • Meet higher performance requirements with thermoplastic materials • Reduce part weight • Achieve rapid cycle times • Differentiate with expanded manufacturing and product performance capabilities Dramatically increasing impact resistance and stiffness of molded components—without adding significant weight—means that OEMs can meet increasingly demanding application requirements.

Adding electronics, minimizing footprint – Using Therma-Tech material for your housing allows you to add more electronics without concerns of excess heat impacting device functionality.

Constituents added to resins, such as colorants and additives, must be adapted to obtain a final article compliant with prescribed standards such as EN13432 for Packaging Applications and EN17033 for Agriculture Mulch Films.

Improves traceability as the color indicates the additive has also been added.

GETTING STARTED TIMING IS THE KEY TO A RUNNING COLOR CHANGE Hand Blend • Have the purge blend ready to load • If hopper contains a mixture of resin, color and/ or regrind, it should be run dry or drained before beginning the color change, keeping the screw full so press cycle continues • Run the main resin hopper dry or shut off hopper to hand feed at the throat • Once press is clean, slide hopper in place and proceed with next color-resin blend • The next color can be added while Cesa Clean is still in the barrel • When splay is no longer visible in parts, reset shot size, parts should be ready to pack (Single) Volumetric/Gravimetric Metering Unit at the Throat • Empty and clean feeder while press continues to run • Add Cesa Clean to the feeder color hopper and calibrate to a 3.0% use rate • When press is clean, start next color • When splay is no longer visible in parts, reset shot size, parts should be ready to pack • Note: If an open/unused secondary feeder is installed, use it for the Cesa Clean concentrate Central Blending Unit • Thoroughly clean unit while continuing to mold parts, keeping a resin feed to the press • Using a clean open hopper or regrind hopper, add the Cesa Clean concentrate • Set blender for additive/color to 3.0% • Once press is clean, drain hopper and/or central blending unit while continuing to mold parts • Begin new color and continue to mold parts • When splay is no longer visible in parts, reset shot size, parts should be ready to pack Process Adjustments That Can Help • Increase back pressure • Increase screw speed • Increase injection speed (in some tools maximum injection speed can facilitate cleaning) • Reduce mold close time (faster cycle) • Always remember a stock temperature of 400°F is essential When press and tool are clean, return all settings to standard production process profile.

The typical enthusiast is willing to invest extra money into customizing their kayaks with vibrant colors and added accessories.

Long fibre reinforced materials have an added degree of modelling complexity due to the need to capture the effects of bundling, fibre entanglement and weld lines.

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