The sustainability goals were clear: conserve more material, reduce energy usage, and reduce plastic waste in the environment. Avient developed new recycled-content materials to enable its customers to achieve their goals and add options for the circular economy. By using recycled content, the customer made significant strides toward the circular economy, conserved materials and reduced energy usage by over 65%.

At Avient we’ve developed materials that can help you reach your goals. Our portfolio of specialty materials are designed to allow density reduction in applications where stiffness can’t be compromised. We can even help you rethink existing fiber filled thermoplastic materials.           

The sustainability goals were clear: conserve more material, reduce energy usage, and reduce plastic waste in the environment. Avient developed new recycled-content materials to enable its customers to achieve their goals and add options for the circular economy. By using recycled content, the customer made significant strides toward the circular economy, conserved materials and reduced energy usage by over 65%.

PET is a popular material choice for food and beverage packaging, affording high clarity with design flexibility. Additionally, it can be easily recycled multiple times unlike alternative packaging materials. To support the shift toward a circular economy, governments are legislating increased levels of recycled material in single-use packaging.

It also needed to have high clarity, which created a significant problem: existing materials provided clarity, but not the necessary stiffness. They selected a TPE-based impact modifier that could be used at a loading level five percentage points below the current material while still meeting all of the performance requirements, including higher stiffness. In addition, reducing the tote wall thickness resulted in a savings of about $470,000 a year, based on reduction in material usage and lower unit costs for fuel to transport products to retailers.

CLEVELAND – June 11, 2018 – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL) today unveiled the first-ever thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) material able to resist bl CLEVELAND – May 9, 2018 – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL) today announced that its thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) materials for packaging are enabl Beyond Acrylic: New Resilience™ LS Materials from PolyOne Boost LED Lens Performance

We come alongside our customers to navigate product development, identify proper materials, enhance product performance, improve sustainability, optimize manufacturing, and more. Through the combination of specialty engineered materials and comprehensive support services, Avient helps customers overcome challenges in a range of industries and applications. 

Engineered Materials for EV Batteries Catheter Materials & Medical Tubing EVSE Material Solutions

Avient’s exhibit is focused on specialty TPE materials that are compliant with diverse global regulations and performance requirements. These advanced materials can help OEMs and processors to meet materials safety standards and reinforce sustainability goals for kitchenware and houseware products.  These materials have good weather resistance, enhanced flexibility and good sealing performance, and include FDA-compliant and medical grades

The material also provides an attractive matte finish that maintains appearance after prolonged use. Hoffman noted that before selecting the Versaflex material, GOBIE evaluated more than 40 different materials, including rubber, along with methods such as bonding and ultrasonic welding. These FDA-compliant colorants were used to produce fresh and bright hues, pairing perfectly with the TPE material to avoid bonding problems that GOBIE had experienced previously with other materials.