Seller has no liability for the failure of discharge or unloading equipment or materials used by Buyer, whether or not supplied by Seller. 12. Seller may, during any period of shortage due to any cause, prorate, and allocate its supply of such materials among itself for its own consumption, its subsidiaries, affiliated companies, its accepted orders, contract customers, and its regular customers not then under contract in such a manner as may be deemed fair and reasonable by Seller. During periods when demand for Product exceeds Seller’s capability to supply, whether due to a force majeure or otherwise, Seller may distribute Product among itself for its own uses, Buyer, and other customers, in such manner as Seller deems fair and practicable.

Seller has no liability for the failure of discharge or unloading equipment or materials used by Buyer, whether or not supplied by Seller. 12. Seller may, during any period of shortage due to any cause, prorate, and allocate its supply of such materials among itself for its own consumption, its subsidiaries, affiliated companies, its accepted orders, contract customers, and its regular customers not then under contract in such a manner as may be deemed fair and reasonable by Seller. During periods when demand for Product exceeds Seller’s capability to supply, whether due to a force majeure or otherwise, Seller may distribute Product among itself for its own uses, Buyer, and other customers, in such manner as Seller deems fair and practicable.

Seller has no liability for the failure of discharge or unloading equipment or materials used by Buyer, whether or not supplied by Seller. 12. Seller may, during any period of shortage due to any cause, prorate, and allocate its supply of such materials among itself for its own consumption, its subsidiaries, affiliated companies, its accepted orders, contract customers, and its regular customers not then under contract in such a manner as may be deemed fair and reasonable by Seller. During periods when demand for Product exceeds Seller’s capability to supply, whether due to a force majeure or otherwise, Seller may distribute Product among itself for its own uses, Buyer, and other customers, in such manner as Seller deems fair and practicable.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: the final amount of charges resulting from the planned North American asset realignment and the Company's ability to realize anticipated savings and operational benefits from the asset realignment; our ability to achieve the strategic and other objectives relating to the acquisition of Spartech Corporation, including any expected synergies; our ability to successfully integrate Spartech and achieve the expected results of the acquisition, including, without limitation, the acquisition being accretive; disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit markets that could adversely impact the availability of credit already arranged and the availability and cost of credit in the future; the financial condition of our customers, including the ability of customers (especially those that may be highly leveraged and those with inadequate liquidity) to maintain their credit availability; the speed and extent of an economic recovery, including the recovery of the housing market; our ability to achieve new business gains; the effect on foreign operations of currency fluctuations, tariffs and other political, economic and regulatory risks; changes in polymer consumption growth rates where we conduct business; changes in global industry capacity or in the rate at which anticipated changes in industry capacity come online; fluctuations in raw material prices, quality and supply and in energy prices and supply; production outages or material costs associated with scheduled or unscheduled maintenance programs; unanticipated developments that could occur with respect to contingencies such as litigation and environmental matters; an inability to achieve or delays in achieving or achievement of less than the anticipated financial benefit from initiatives related to working capital reductions, cost reductions and employee productivity goals; an inability to raise or sustain prices for products or services; an inability to maintain appropriate relations with unions and employees; the inability to achieve expected results from our acquisition activities; our ability to continue to pay cash dividends; the amount and timing of repurchases of our common shares, if any; and other factors affecting our business beyond our control, including, without limitation, changes in the general economy, changes in interest rates and changes in the rate of inflation.

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Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: the ability and time required to consummate the acquisition of Dyneema; our ability to achieve the strategic and other objectives relating to the proposed acquisition of Dyneema; disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit markets that could adversely impact the availability of credit already arranged and the availability and cost of credit in the future; the effect on foreign operations of currency fluctuations, tariffs and other political, economic and regulatory risks; the current and potential future impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations, financial position or cash flows; changes in polymer consumption growth rates and laws and regulations regarding plastics in jurisdictions where we conduct business; fluctuations in raw material prices, quality and supply, and in energy prices and supply; production outages or material costs associated with scheduled or unscheduled maintenance programs; unanticipated developments that could occur with respect to contingencies such as litigation and environmental matters; an inability to raise or sustain prices for products or services; information systems failures and cyberattacks; and other factors affecting our business beyond our control, including without limitation, changes in the general economy, changes in interest rates and changes in the rate of inflation.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: our ability to identify and evaluate acquisition targets and consummate and integrate acquisitions; disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the credit markets that could adversely impact the availability of credit already arranged and the availability and cost of credit in the future; the effect on foreign operations of currency fluctuations, tariffs and other political, economic and regulatory risks; changes in polymer consumption growth rates and laws and regulations regarding plastics in jurisdictions where we conduct business; changes in global industry capacity or in the rate at which anticipated changes in industry capacity come online; fluctuations in raw material prices, quality and supply, and in energy prices and supply; production outages or material costs associated with scheduled or unscheduled maintenance programs; unanticipated developments that could occur with respect to contingencies such as litigation and environmental matters; an inability to raise or sustain prices for products or services; an inability to achieve or delays in achieving or achievement of less than the anticipated financial benefit from initiatives related to acquisition and integration, working capital reductions, cost reductions and employee productivity goals; information systems failures and cyberattacks; and other factors affecting our business beyond our control, including, without limitation, changes in the general economy, changes in interest rates and changes in the rate of inflation.

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