Drawing on the wealth of Avient expertise, our shooting sports customers find fresh ways to add value to existing product lines as well as bring innovative new designs to life.

These customizable formulations can replace traditional materials such as FR PC/ABS, FR PC/PET and FR COPE, offer improved chemical resistance to common disinfectants, achieve a UL 94 V-0 at 1.5 & V-1 at 0.75 flame rating when necessary, and can often be molded in existing PC/ABS tooling.

Extends PolyOne's existing reach into strategic end markets such as transportation and consumer goods

PRODUCTS APPLICATIONS DESCRIPTION/BENEFITS EXCELITE PF-1 PVC sheet for digital print or trimboard; profiles & decking Fine cell structure able to target low density: improves consistency and control over foaming process FOAM ADDITIVE-54 PVC sheet for digital print or trimboard; profiles & decking Finer cell structure than PF-1 promotes ultra smooth surface finish; improves consistency and control over foaming process PF-1E & FA-54E ADDITIVES PVC sheet for digital print or trimboard; profiles & decking Enhanced run time formulation reduces die lip build-up in PVC processes, leading to longer production run times FOAM ADDITIVE-33 CaZN formulations for PVC sheet, profile, or trimboard Promotes finer cell structure, higher cell density, and surface quality in CaZN PVC dryblends FOAM ADDITIVE-77 HDPE sheet & plastic lumber Industry-leading cell structure and cell density; achieves lower density without sacrificing quality; self-nucleating and able to increase extruder output rates up to 15% FOAM ADDITIVE-85 Endothermic foam or nucleating additive for olefin and styrene polymers; plastic lumber, sheet applications and food packaging products Can be used as a CFA or nucleating additive; nucleating capabilities promote fine cell structure and high cell density; achieves greater density reductions with more consistency and control FOAM ADDITIVE-37 HDPE sheet & plastic lumber Good cell structure and cell density in HDPE lumber; greater consistency and control over foaming process EXCELITE CAN IMPROVE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY • The process operator has full control of density • Minimizes product rejection due to unnecessarily high/low density • Production should consistently target the bottom of the density specification • Enables control over the reintroduction of regrind or reprocessed materials as a feedstock • Enables the consistent foaming of products using higher percentages of regrind • Carrier selection can promote longer run times, enabling increased line productivity through less plate-out or material build-up on die lips EXCELITE CAN IMPROVE SURFACE FINISH Excelite additives creates a fine, consistent cell structure within the extruded polymer, which determine the surface roughness. EXCELITE VS POWDER • Enables a greater level of density control, through consistent distribution in the polymer • Simplifies and optimizes resin compounding capabilities (PVC dry blends) • Enables greater control over foaming and expands processing window when re-introducing regrind • Clean and highly accurate dosing process, with fewer of the health and safety concerns that can become apparent with powder CFAs EXCELITE VS PELLET • Being significantly more concentrated, Excelite additive enables lower total cost to foam • Can achieve lower density, less carrier influence • Finer and tighter cell structure through better additive distribution • Improved linear consistency of cell structure as ColorMatrix pumps continually meter output, giving greater stability over material dosing • Improved plant working capital as lower let down ratios means less material is consumed and reduces inventory holdings TECHNICAL SUPPORT • Avient has a market leading service team which understands foaming processes, we assist customers to deliver performance and production efficiencies with Excelite™ technology • Please contact your local Avient representative for additional information on our line of foaming additives www.avient.com Copyright © 2020, Avient Corporation.

It enables: • Increased rPET content • Reduced CO2 emissions When added to rPET and PET preforms and bottles, SmartHeat RHC helps to: • Improve rPET quality - Better thermal stability, reduced yellowing • Improve bottle quality - Greater processability - Lightweighting • Reduce energy consumption during the blow molding process SmartHeat RHC has minimal impact on final product color or aesthetics. PROCESSING AND HANDLING The SmartHeat RHC product range has food contact approvals defined in the below table.

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Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialised and sustainable material solutions and services, has invested in testing equipment, personnel, and software to help its customers gain insight into its unique material solutions and how they perform. Results & benefits Avient has applied the Digimat material model to two different load cases, a flexural test and a tensile test.

The Board of Directors has ultimate responsibility for matters related to governance and corporate responsibility, and the Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee provides oversight and guidance with regard to how the Board and management evaluate and integrate corporate responsibility and sustainability into Avient’s business strategy, decision-making and stakeholder communication, including this Human Rights Policy. Avient is committed to an inclusive workplace, and has no tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind based on a person’s race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or on any other legally protected characteristics.

Generally speaking, the more frequently a part is exposed to a stress cracking agent, the more opportunities the agent has to penetrate or diffuse into the polymer network and cause damage. It has been demonstrated in literature that the critical strain required for stress cracking is at a minimum when the difference between the solubility parameters of the polymer and stress cracking agent are minimized. Although, it has been observed that swelling non-solvents (theta solvents) are the most potent stress cracking agents, since solvation of the polymer with good solvents may result in gelation or crystallization at the exposure site and prevent stress cracking.4 Lastly, higher residual or applied stresses imparted to the plastic component can also expedite the time to stress cracking failure.

Figure 4 shows a top and side view of a corner with constant wall thickness where coring has been applied. This fastener method keeps one smooth surface, and has the fewest parts required of mechanical fasteners. Unfortunately, this method has limited durability and assembly repeatability as fasteners may wear and stretch the plastic thread.