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Brand owners, marketers, and product designers can depend on the team’s collaborative design approach, a cornerstone of the services offered, to efficiently create impactful CMF concepts ready for commercialization.
Additional Services • Color consultation to select or develop quick color and effect concepts • Polymer technology consultation to find solutions for technical and material challenges • Prototyping and sampling to best visualize color and effect considering polymer type, shape, and texture • Brand color management to ensure global color consistency • Color education and training to impart plastic coloration knowledge to non-experts • ColorForward™ color trend forecasting tool to provide insights into the CMF concepts expected to trend in the coming years Capabilities Multi-disciplinary Expertise Experts in CMF, industrial and conceptual design, color trends, polymer and color technology, formulation Extensive Toolbox Extensive color libraries and trend books, mood board creation, physical/virtual prototyping, cost evaluation, technical feasibility evaluation, sampling Valuable Networking Internal networking with Avient departments such as Avient Design, marketing, product safety, color matching labs, technology, sustainability group and external networking with designers, color associations, consultants, raw material providers Strategic Locations Locations in Asia, EMEA, Latin America and the U.S. 1.844.4AVIENT www.avient.com Copyright © 2025, Avient Corporation.
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Our application development, engineering and industrial design teams can help you to: • Increase stiffness • Improve impact resistance • Reduce weight through thin-walling and material reduction or replacement • Add strength in high stress areas Avient’s thermoplastic composite innovation cell in Englewood, CO features injection and compression molding equipment as well as design and testing services, all under one roof.
Avient Advanced Composites – Polystrand 8375 Highfield Parkway Englewood, CO 80112 303.515.7700 TESTING SERVICES In-house testing capabilities allow for rapid material characterization and mechanical analysis according to the following standards: • ASTM D790 3-Point Flex • ASTM D7264 4-Point Flex • ASTM D2344 Short Beam Shear • ASTM C393 Core Compression • ASTM D7078 V-Notch Shear • ASTM D7249 4-Point Flex (Long Beam) • ASTM D6641 CLC Compression For more specialized resin and material analysis, additional testing capabilities are available through Polymer Diagnostics, Inc.
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The consequences to the medical device manufacturer could include increases in: • Service calls to repair damaged devices • Warranty claims on damaged devices • Product returns of damaged devices TYPICAL APPLICATIONS Below are just a few examples of the many types of medical devices protected by rigid polymer housings and frequently cleaned with harsh disinfectants to fight HAI’s.
Public Health Service, the incidence of hospital-acquired infections (HAI’s), such as MRSA and VRE, has increased approximately 36% in the last 20 years and today causes nearly 100,000 deaths annually.
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Avient has served the healthcare industry for decades with a full portfolio of innovative materials and services.
TECHNICAL BULLETIN SOLUTIONS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS EVOLVING NEEDS Determining the appropriate polymer for the job can prevent product failures, thereby reducing service calls, product returns and warranty claims for manufacturers.
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Senior management uses pre-special gross margin, adjusted operating income, adjusted EPS and working capital to assess performance and allocate resources because senior management believes that these measures are useful in understanding current profitability levels and that current levels may serve as a base for future performance.
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Fiber-Line Performance Enhancing Coatings feature: • 100% water based or non-solvent resin formulations • Carefully selected, regulatory compliant raw materials and chemicals • Custom formulations designed to meet specific application requirements • Formulations designed for compatibility with specific fiber substrates or processing conditions Contact us today to determine the fiber-based solution that is right for your product.
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Joule RHB products can also be especially useful in enabling thick walled or complex bottle structures to be successfully blown; improving the material distribution through a more even heat uptake throughout the polymer matrix has been proven to be beneficial in solving or easing many common blowing processing issues.
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The technical services team at Avient worked closely with the European material engineering team at DENSO under the lead of Mr.
THE IMPACT Through a combination of its global footprint, expert technical services, and local production, Avient accepted DENSO’s challenge and responded with a new customized formulation that exceeded performance requirements, eliminated overmolding, and reduced cycle times.
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Nikrant Page 67 United States 36% Europe 36% Canada 2% Asia 20% Latin America 2011 Revenue: $0.6 Billion2011 Revenue: $0.6 Billion SolutionsSolutions At a Glance Global Specialty Engineered Materials Appliance 6% Building & Construction 3% Wire & Cable 14% Electrical & Electronics 14%Consumer 21% Packaging 5% Industrial 8% Misc. 3% HealthCare 5% Transportation 21% America 6% 2011 Revenue by Industry Segment2011 Revenue by Industry Segment 1.1% 1.3% 3.4% 5.1% 9.6% 8.0% 12-16% 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2015 Operating Income % of Sales Target Expanding ProfitsExpanding Profits Page 68 Value Proposition • GSEM is a global leader providing complete specialty solutions encompassing innovative technologies and services to enable customer success Transformation Highlights • Dramatic turnaround of the Engineered Materials business through mix improvement and specialty focus Value Proposition and Transformation Highlights Global Specialty Engineered Materials improvement and specialty focus • GLS acquisition successfully integrated, having more than doubled earnings in 3 years • PolyOne culture and strategy now engrained worldwide • Expansion into healthcare with dedicated resources > $15B Addressable Market Page 69 • Polymer design, formulation and service expertise • Broad, global technology base and regional centers of excellence • Ten innovation centers around the world Key Differentiators Global Specialty Engineered Materials • Ten innovation centers around the world • Specialty brand leadership with PolyOne, GLS, NEU and ECCOH • Ability to leverage global key account team Page 70 From Volume Commodity-driven product portfolio To Value Specialty technology and solutions EM North America Transformation Volume Sales Gross Margin $ Mix Transformation – Executing the Strategy Global Specialty Engineered Materials 2006 2011 2006 2011 2006 2011 Page 71 $12 $29 Operating Income ($ in millions) • Provided access to new customers in specialized, high-growth markets such as healthcare and consumer • Strategic partner to many of the world’s best-known companies GLS Integration Success 16.9% 8.2% 2007 2011 2007 2011 Working Capital % of Sales • Complementary global footprint provided additional cross-selling opportunities • Opportunity to expand margins and drive working capital improvement while remaining customer-focused Page 72 $1.3 $27.6 2006 2011 Healthcare Revenue • Investment in dedicated healthcare team to drive penetration and growth • Leverage product portfolio globally & win specialty business Areas of Focus Global Specialty Engineered Materials $10.5 $117.9 2006 2011 Consumer Revenue 2006 2011globally & win specialty business in targeted markets • Aggressively commercialize specialty innovation platforms • Utilize our innovation centers to influence OEM design (Revenue in $ millions) Page 73 • Carbon Nanotube Formulations � Applications: Semiconductor equipment, hard drives � Customer benefits: Scrap cost reduction and clean conductivity • Thermally Conductive Solutions Applications: Sockets and bulb holders for LED lighting Key Innovations Global Specialty Engineered Materials � Applications: Sockets and bulb holders for LED lighting � Customer benefits: Cost reduction, energy saving, and design flexibility • FDA-Regulated TPEs � Applications: Food packaging seals, intravenous delivery systems, medical stoppers, prefilled syringes � Customer benefits: Clean and safe elastomers for highly regulated applications Page 74 Critical Imperatives and 2015 Goal Global Specialty Engineered Materials Critical Imperatives • Commercialize critical new technology platforms • Manage the mix as we continue to drive the transformation • Global translation of commercial successes 2015 Goal • 12 - 16% return on sales Page 75 Page 76
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