This includes highlighting the company’s new Hammerhead™ FR Flame Retardant Composite Panels, an industry-first, patent-pending thermoplastic composite sandwich structure featuring integrated flame retardance that can eliminate the need for additional FR sheets or coatings. In addition to Hammerhead™ FR panels, Avient will showcase technologies that offer high strength, weight reduction, and durability for a wide range of industries and markets, including:  Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™.

Additives, such as melt flow modifiers, can be used to recover the loss of physical properties and aesthetics when applying PCR resins Consider additives that help manage recrystallization and cooling in the tooling  Use additive and process technologies to manage odors

In addition, samples exposed to high humidity for seven days at 85°C and 85% relative humidity showed limited loss of color, suggesting that these colorants can be used in high-humidity environments. Cautionary orange is a widely used color as a warning of potential safety hazards and is a preferred choice for automotive manufacturers to distinguish high-voltage power connectors and cables in electric vehicles from other parts,” said Bob Lee, General Manager, Color and Additives Greater China at Avient. Additional functions like laser marking and custom colorants for other EV applications are also available based on the customer’s requests.  

We do this by continuously improving our offerings with additional resources aimed at improving customer success.”  OnCap™ Anti-Fog Additive: offers transparency and fog prevention for food packaging film and lets product freshness and quality shine through. LactraSX is the only commercially available fully light-blocking white additive to be compliant with the latest Chinese Food Approval standards (GB).

POMMERLOCH, LUXEMBOURG – August 5, 2025 – Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, announces additional grades in its portfolio of recycled-content polycarbonate (PC) and PC blends developed to meet the growing demand for materials that support sustainability in the electrical and electronics (E&E) industry to the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions. This is in addition to 20% to 70% recycled content in previously launched grades, all delivering mechanical properties comparable to virgin PC. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™.

In the bottle manufacturing industry, a three-party collaboration strategy between additive suppliers, converters, and brands can be crucial for achieving optimal efficiency and reaching sustainability goals. Bottle-blowing process aids are specialized additives that are added during preform production at the converter, enabling blow molders to optimize their blow and bottle performance. Reduced Energy Consumption: By optimizing the bottle-blowing process, these additives can lower the energy required to produce each bottle.

Fernando Sanchez, director, global marketing, PolyOne Global Color and Additives, commented, “Color Inspiration 2015 provides an additional dimension that helps facilitate the creative process. Morag Girdwood Marketing Communications Manager PolyOne Global Color and Additives +44(0) 7890 563137 morag.girdwood@avient.com

Reducing melt fracture, also known as sharkskin, has the additional benefit of improving optical properties and providing a higher-quality product appearance.   Our new Cesa processing aid helps to improve productivity and process stability for film or sheet extrusion, pipe extrusion, or extrusion blow molding,” said Mayendran Pillay, Marketing Director, Color & Additives North America at Avient. At the show, Sean Bernhardt, Senior Research and Development Manager, Color, Additives, & Inks, Americas at Avient, is presenting “PFAS Alternatives: 2024  and Beyond,” including the Cesa Non-PFAS Process Aid, on May 7 at 3 p.m. and May 8 at 1 p.m.

However, environmental concerns about PFAS are growing as studies have indicated many PFAS break down very slowly over time and can persist in water and soil,” said Pal Shi, Asia Marketing Director, Color and Additives at Avient. In addition, Cesa Non-PFAS Process Aid can deliver these performance benefits at the same dosage levels as traditional fluoropolymer-based additives while meeting Greater China GB 9685-2016, U.S.

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