Enabling Sustainability for Our Customers
Avient’s diverse technology portfolio and design expertise enable our customers to meet their business and sustainability goals through materials science. Our proven ability to innovate materials solutions that enable our customers’ sustainability goals is a differentiator for our company. We work closely with our customers to understand their needs and address the challenges of evolving consumer demands, market trends, and regulatory requirements. As the world continues to shift from operating in a linear economy to a circular economy, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions continues to be a focal point, Avient is proud to be a part of the solution. We have categorized our portfolio of solutions and services into three drivers of sustainability—RENEW, REDUCE and PRESERVE.
Advancing a Circular Economy
Avient is committed to being part of the circular economy by providing innovative materials solutions. A circular economy aims to design out waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use, and regenerate natural systems. We innovate materials solutions that help our customers reduce material usage, enable recyclability, while improving aesthetics and physical performance. In addition, resources like our Cycleworks™ Innovation Center for Plastic Recycling and Color Prediction Service are integral to strengthening our expertise and enabling our customers to meet their sustainability commitments. We are also dedicated to advancing a circular economy through global investments and projects, as well as aligning with key alliances and partnerships around the globe.
Reducing Carbon Footprint
Understanding and reducing carbon footprint is a critical aspect of sustainability efforts for Avient and our customers. We help our customers understand the carbon footprint of their existing materials through Avient’s product carbon footprint calculator, certified by TÜV Rheinland. By collaborating across the value chain—from suppliers to converters and brand owners—we identify opportunities to help our customers meet their sustainability goals. We enable a lower carbon footprint through technologies that promote lightweighting and design, improved recyclability, increased recycled content, and bio-derived solutions. For more information visit the Product Carbon Footprint section of this report.
Impacts Beyond Carbon
Increasingly, our customers are looking at environmental impacts of their products that go beyond carbon. To support this analysis, Avient has developed capabilities to provide life cycle assessment (LCA) inventory data for our materials solutions. Certified by TÜV Rheinland, data from this analysis enables our customers to develop LCAs and/or Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), as required by their end markets. For more information visit the Life Cycle Assessment section of this report.
Developing More Sustainable Alternatives
The need for more sustainable alternatives to existing materials is driven by a range of factors, including increased performance requirements, evolving consumer preferences, and a tightening regulatory environment. Avient has developed technologies to address these needs, including lightweight composites that improve fuel economy, functional additives that reduce weight or increase the recycle content of plastic packaging, and biobased solutions that help lower a product’s carbon footprint.
Regulations related to chemicals are also evolving globally. As certain chemicals are required to be replaced, our customers need more sustainable alternatives to meet or exceed the performance requirements of their applications. Avient’s product stewardship team monitors the status of various chemistries and works with our R&D teams to drive the innovation pipeline with these alternative solutions.