AVIENT CORP

Avient Corporation is an innovator of materials solutions within the polymer industry. The company provides specialty engineered materials, performance fibers, advanced composites, and color and additive solutions. Avient also specializes in developing and manufacturing performance-enhancing additives, liquid colorants, and silicone colorants. Formed as PolyOne Corporation on August 31, 2000, from the consolidation of The Geon Company and M.A. Hanna Company, the company changed its name to Avient Corporation effective June 30, 2020. Avient is incorporated in Ohio and headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio. The company operates 98 manufacturing sites across North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). In 2025, Avient had sales of $3.3 billion, with approximately 61% of these sales to customers outside the United States. Avient connects large chemical producers (raw material suppliers) with designers, assemblers, and processors of polymers (customers) by leveraging its formulation expertise, materials science, and operational capabilities. The company serves end markets including consumer, packaging, defense, healthcare, industrial, transportation, building and construction, telecommunications, and energy.