This can help to reduce inventory and can allow the use of general- purpose resin Avient Value-Added Services Avient supports these colorant and additive technologies including: • A focus on sustainability with innovative materials and solutions to help you meet your sustainability goals, including PCR Color Predication Service and Product Footprint Calculator • Leading Color Trend and Design Services - Trend and color insights along with product development assistance from concept through commercialization to optimize design and gain speed to market • Avient Design - A highly specialized group of industrial designers and project engineers that provides advanced design and detailed analysis to foster higher levels of innovation • Application Development and Technical Support - Technical experts specifically trained to work directly with your team to solve definitive application challenges with new or existing approaches • Regulatory Support - Dedicated product stewardship assisting with new product approvals to reduce regulatory overheads and minimize risk • Reliable field technical services and support - Onsite support for tool design, startup, and production optimization to gain manufacturing efficiencies and help resolve technical issues

Homepage // News Center // Avient Debuts Next-Generation CESA™ Nofog Plus for Hot and Cold Food Packaging By reducing moisture accumulation, CESA Nofog Plus helps prolong the shelf life of packaged foods. This additive can be used in both rigid and flexible food packaging, including mono- and multilayer structures.

This new technology enables packaging manufacturers to create unlimited combinations of color and gloss for packaging with a brilliant, attention-grabbing appearance. With new Impress color concentrates, packaging manufacturers now have an outstanding option for winning consumer attention at the point-of-sale and can vary the amount of colorant and package wall thickness to create endless possibilities. Impress metallic effect colorants add value to packaging made with semi-crystalline polymers such as PET.

Packaging Discover the benefits UV light blockers offer for PET beverage packaging Packaging that maintains product quality is a way to avoid wasting these resources.

Packaging Discover the benefits UV light blockers offer for PET beverage packaging Packaging that maintains product quality is a way to avoid wasting these resources.

Packaging Home // Three Ways to Enhance Cosmetic Packaging with Chemically Compatible Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPEs) Silicones and the standard TPEs traditionally used in cosmetic packaging present several tradeoffs.

Homepage // News Center // Avient Unveils ColorMatrix™ AAnchor™: New Acetaldehyde Control Technology for PET Packaging Avient Unveils ColorMatrix™ AAnchor™: New Acetaldehyde Control Technology for PET Packaging ColorMatrix AAnchor technology provides a comprehensive solution to improve the recyclability and quality of PET packaging.

Homepage // News Center // PolyOne Delivers Certified OK Compost HOME Colorants to Simplify Bio-Degradable Packaging Compliance OnColor BIO solutions address a previously unmet market need by enabling packaging producers to proactively meet toughening legislation, such as France’s new Energy Transition Law. The law also applies to plastic packaging used for mail publications.  

Homepage // News Center // Avient Develops New Dairy Packaging Additive Technology to Meet TiO2 Restrictions This new additive technology helps customers’ packaging products to comply with new titanium dioxide (TiO2) restrictions in Europe under the EU Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC. This latest Lactra technology offers brand owners and PET packaging converters the ability to achieve over 99.9 percent light blocking in monolayer PET, with high levels of whiteness (L* of up to 94) but with less than 1 weight percent TiO2 and less than 4 weight percent inorganic content.

Homepage // News Center // Create Packaging That Gets Noticed with New Impress™ High Gloss Metallic Effect Colorants from PolyOne Available in solid and liquid forms, this colorant can enhance blow-molded PET rigid packaging with an ultra-glossy metallic effect. Photo Caption: New Impress™ high gloss metallic effect colorants from PolyOne enhance polymer packaging with an attention-grabbing surface appearance.