Avient Corp.

Business Overview We are an innovator of materials solutions to help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. Our products include specialty engineered materials, performance fibers, advanced composites and color and additive solutions. We are also a highly specialized developer and manufacturer of performance enhancing additives, liquid colorants and silicone colorants. When used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the terms we, us, our," "Avient" and the Company mean Avient Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries. Avient was formed as PolyOne Corporation on August 31, 2000, from the consolidation of The Geon Company (Geon) and M.A. Hanna Company (Hanna). Through a series of acquisitions, divestitures, operational improvements and cultural shifts, the Company has transformed to become an innovator of materials solutions. Effective June 30, 2020, the Company amended its existing Articles of Incorporation to change its name to Avient Corporation and changed its ticker symbol from POL to AVNT , effective at the start of trading on July 13, 2020. Avient Corporation is incorporated in Ohio and headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio. We currently have 98 manufacturing sites in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). In 2025, the Company had sales of $3.3 billion, approximately 61% of which were to customers outside the United States.