https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/Avient-2023-Sustainability-Report_5.pdf
It’s the highest honor a non-sales associate can receive at Avient.
Sales
Our Chairman’s Club Award recognizes our top 25 sellers and one sales
manager for their outstanding performance, conducting business
safely, and living our values of Collaboration, Innovation and Excellence.
We continue to enable our innovation
strategy through investment in R&D, sales and
marketing resources.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/Avient 2023 Sustainability Report_6.pdf
It’s the highest honor a non-sales associate can receive at Avient.
Sales
Our Chairman’s Club Award recognizes our top 25 sellers and one sales
manager for their outstanding performance, conducting business
safely, and living our values of Collaboration, Innovation and Excellence.
We continue to enable our innovation
strategy through investment in R&D, sales and
marketing resources.
https://www.avient.com/sites/default/files/resources/POL%2520IR%2520Presentation%2520-%2520Investor%2520Day%25205-18-15.pdf
They use words such as “will,”
“anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of
future operating or financial performance and/or sales
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Formula for Success
Innovation
Market
Beating
Performance
Excellence in Execution
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Track Record of Successful Acquisitions
$12
$50
2007 2014
$22
$39
2012 2014
$24
$69
2012 2014
GLS ColorMatrix Spartech
OI in $ millions
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Driving Toward Premier Profitability
EBIT Margins for top tier
companies
Victrex 41%
18% Albemarle
Eastman 17%
Hexcel 17%
FMC 16%
Ecolab 14%
12% Specialty EBIT Margin – 2014
IFF 19%
Celanese 13%
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2006 2014 2020
“Where we were” “Where we are” Platinum Vision
Operating Income %
Specialty:
Global Color, Additives & Inks 1.7% 14.7% 20%+
Global Specialty Engineered Materials 1.1% 12.1% 20%+
Designed Structures & Solutions 1.4%(2012) 7.3% 12 – 14%
Performance Products & Solutions 5.5% 7.7% 10 – 12%
Distribution 2.6% 6.1% 6.5 – 7.5%
Specialty Platform % of
Operating Income 6.0% 65% 80%+
ROIC 5.0% 11.3% 15%
Adjusted EPS Growth N/A 37% Double Digit
Expansion
2020 Platinum Vision
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Platinum Vision: Pathway to Accelerated Growth
Organic
Sales Growth
Margin
Expansion
Share
Repurchases
Acquisitions
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2006 2010 2014 2020
Driving Toward a Premium Specialty Multiple
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Hybrid
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The New PolyOne: A Specialty Growth Company
Why Invest In PolyOne?
Special items include charges related to specific strategic initiatives or financial restructuring such as: consolidation of operations; debt
extinguishment costs; employee separation costs resulting from personnel reduction programs, plant phase-in costs, executive separation agreements; asset impairments; mark-to-market
adjustments associated with actuarial gains and losses on pension and other post-retirement benefit plans; environmental remediation costs, fines, penalties, remediation costs and related
insurance recoveries related to facilities no longer owned or closed in prior years; gains and losses on the divestiture of operating businesses, joint ventures and equity investments; gains and
losses on facility or property sales or disposals; results of litigation, fines or penalties, where such litigation (or action relating to the fines or penalties) arose prior to the commencement of
the performance period; unrealized gains and losses from foreign currency option contracts; one-time, non-recurring items; and the effect of changes in accounting principles or other such
laws or provisions affecting reported results.
(2) Tax adjustments include the net tax expense (benefit) from one-time income tax items and deferred income tax valuations allowance adjustments.
https://www.avient.com/company/sustainability/sustainability-report/goals-commitments/2030-goals-progress/un-sdgs
We are dedicated to ensuring 100% of our products manufactured for packaging applications will be recyclable or reusable, reaching 91% in 2023.
https://www.avient.com/resource-center?document_type=221&document_subtype=0&industry=0&product_family=0&product_name=0&op=FILTER RESULTS&form_id=resource_filter_form
Cesa™ Raise enhances the heat resistance of APET thermoformed packaging, allowing it to withstand temperatures up to 100°C.
https://www.avient.com/investor-center/news/avient-collaborates-oceanworks-expand-use-recycled-ocean-plastics
The marketplace offers 100s of ocean and averted plastic resins, textiles, and products from trusted suppliers worldwide.
https://www.avient.com/news/avient-s-taiwan-site-gains-grs-40-accreditation-extending-list-environmentally-certified-sites
Earning the GRS 4.0 accreditation allows for the traceability of recycled content, and helps make it easier for customers to increase the amount of recycled material up to 100% in end products.
https://www.avient.com/company/sustainability/people/training-and-development
Performance Feedback
100% of Avient associates receive regular performance feedback, and we leverage technology to enable the global process all year long.
https://www.avient.com/news/avient-technology-helps-achieve-color-consistency-l-or-al-pcr-packaging-worldwide
At the same time, L’Oréal had an objective is to have 100% of the plastics used in its packaging be made either from recycled or biobased sources by 2030.
https://www.avient.com/news/avient-features-sustainable-polymer-colorants-and-additives-specialty-engineered-materials-and-services-plastimagen-2023
Rejoin™ Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Colorants use PCR content as a carrier resin, allowing for 100% PCR packaging with color for bottles and parts.