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With cable design at the forefront of any material recommendation, Avient provides a range of additional technical services including extrusion simulation, in order to more fully understand a cable’s design before providing fine-tuned recommendations to help customers comply with the criteria for the applicable CPR Euroclass designation. SELECTING THE RIGHT ECCOH SOLUTION Avient provides additional technical services to help cable manufacturers find the right CPR compliant cable solutions.

Leadership, EHS&S-PS, Facility Services, Design & Development, Information Technology, Sourcing, Logistics, Legal, and Human Resources Activity: Design and Manufacture of Colour and Additive Concentrates, Page 3 of 10 Facility: Avient Corporation - Cota, Colombia Autopista Medellín Km 2.5, Via Parcelas Km 1 Vereda Siberia Cota, Cundinamarca 250017 Colombia Facility: Avient Corporation - Gebze, Turkey Ihsan Dede Cad. Ezcabarte calle H Nº3 Oricain, Navarra 31194 Facility: Avient Corporation - Phan Thong 700/848 Moo 1,Tambol Phan Thong Amata City Chonburi Industrial Estate Phan Thong, Chonburi 20160 Thailand Activity: Manufacture of Masterbatches, Additives, ECCOH, and Compounds for Pigmenting Thermoplastic Activity: Design and Manufacture of Colorants and Additives for Plastics Facility: Avient Corporation - Pogliano, Italy Via Lainate 26 20005, Pogliano Milanese, Milano Facility: Avient Corporation - Randburg, South Africa 329 Tungsten Rd, Strydompark Randburg, Gauteng 2194 South Africa Activity: Manufacture of Colour and Additive Concentrates, Thermoplastic Resins and Specialty Compounds Activity: Manufacture of Masterbatches Facility: NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC 15 Corporate Drive North Haven, CT 06473 Facility: Avient Corporation - Norwalk, OH 80 North West Street Norwalk, OH 44857 Activity: Compound, Supply, and Prototyping Services of Thermoplastics Activity: Design and Manufacture of Colorants and Additives for Plastics Page 8 of 10 Facility: Avient Corporation - Sant Andreu, Spain Crta.

Leadership, EHS&S-PS, Facility Services, Design & Development, Information Technology, Sourcing, Logistics, Legal, and Human Resources Activity: Design and Manufacture of Colour and Additive Concentrates, Page 3 of 10 Facility: Avient Corporation - Cota, Colombia Autopista Medellín Km 2.5, Via Parcelas Km 1 Vereda Siberia Cota, Cundinamarca 250017 Colombia Facility: Avient Corporation - Gebze, Turkey Ihsan Dede Cad. Ezcabarte calle H Nº3 Oricain, Navarra 31194 Facility: Avient Corporation - Phan Thong 700/848 Moo 1,Tambol Phan Thong Amata City Chonburi Industrial Estate Phan Thong, Chonburi 20160 Thailand Activity: Manufacture of Masterbatches, Additives, ECCOH, and Compounds for Pigmenting Thermoplastic Activity: Design and Manufacture of Colorants and Additives for Plastics Facility: Avient Corporation - Pogliano, Italy Via Lainate 26 20005, Pogliano Milanese, Milano Facility: Avient Corporation - Randburg, South Africa 329 Tungsten Rd, Strydompark Randburg, Gauteng 2194 South Africa Activity: Design and Manufacture of Colour and Additive Concentrates, Activity: Manufacture of Masterbatches Facility: NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC 15 Corporate Drive North Haven, CT 06473 Facility: Avient Corporation - Norwalk, OH 80 North West Street Norwalk, OH 44857 Activity: Compound, Supply, and Prototyping Services of Thermoplastics Activity: Design and Manufacture of Colorants and Additives for Plastics Page 8 of 10 Facility: Avient Corporation - Sant Andreu, Spain Crta.

With cable design at the forefront of any material recommendation, Avient provides a range of additional technical services including extrusion simulation, in order to more fully understand a cable’s design before providing fine-tuned recommendations to help customers comply with the criteria for the applicable CPR Euroclass designation. SELECTING THE RIGHT ECCOH SOLUTION Avient provides additional technical services to help cable manufacturers find the right CPR compliant cable solutions.

Service Temperature DMA (dynamic mechanical analyzer) can be used to evaluate the service temperature.