TECHNICAL SERVICES Avient Specialty Engineered Materials COULD YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS BENEFIT FROM ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT EXPAND YOUR DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING, AND TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES? At Avient, our in-house capabilities allow us to quickly move opportunities through the product development pipeline. ONSITE TECHNICAL SUPPORT The product development process does not end with design and testing.

TECHNICAL SERVICES Avient Specialty Engineered Materials COULD YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS BENEFIT FROM ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT EXPAND YOUR DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING, AND TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES? At Avient, our in-house capabilities allow us to quickly move opportunities through the product development pipeline. Internal Testing Available • Physical • Rheological, thermal, and moisture analysis • Microscopy • Liquid, gas, and size exclusion chromatography • Atomic, infrared, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy • Flammability • X-ray diffractometry • Weathering (QUV & Xenon Arc) • Failure analysis APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT Avient has design, application development and degreed plastics engineers available to give our customers reliable and experienced guidance to help navigate the development process.

Customers are guided through a color development process at the earliest stages of their product development to establish high-impact colors for their brands, helping accelerate time to market. Brand owners and marketers can draw inspiration from this tool to develop appliances that will be more attractive to consumers. Avient also developed a series of new solutions that allow the incorporation of higher recycled polymer content in the final article.

Versaflex™ PF formulations are specially developed for the manufacture of co-extruded surface protective films Long Fiber Technologies Application Development Read how technical expertise and broad TPE portfolio shortened the development timeline and delivered a durable performance

When you work with us, our experts can provide you with additional resources and value-added services that expand your product development and manufacturing capabilities. They use an onsite collaborative approach to accelerate and streamline the product development process, from initial consultation through the translation of ideas into colors, shapes or effects. Services include: • New product development • Color, Material & Finish (CMF) development and design • Circular design for sustainability • Rapid prototyping • 3D visualization Ready to learn more?

Additives to preserve clarity and retain opacity developed for dental care products using WithStand™ Gravi-Tech™ polymer-metal composites are high density materials developed as thermoplastic-based alternatives to lead and other traditional metals Sync design with manufacturability: Learn about how Avient Design can help simplify your new product development process

Compound development to meet specific application requirements. Formulation development to meet specific application requirements. For higher volume production programs (over 250,000 units annually) or areas with increased labor costs, multi-shot molding operations are the method of choice.

They also provided local support during the sampling process, which helped speed testing and development time for Victorinox. THE IMPACT With our support, Victorinox was enabled to do what it does best—develop and manufacture high-quality tools that meet both military and consumer needs. Avient provided product development assistance and testing, and ultimately delivered customized materials that met strict requirements for durability.

Reduced total program life cost – The lightweighting and part consolidation benefits of using Therma-Tech material can help you achieve overall system cost reductions.

THE CHALLENGE A global leader (“OEM”) in personal care products was developing its first entry into the Patient Mobility market and was looking for ways to gain a competitive edge and offer superior value to its customers. Avient has compiled extensive data that enabled the OEM to shave weeks off the product development timeline and save nearly $50,000 in potential antimicrobial product protection testing fees. The resulting Smartbatch solution was developed specifically for the OEM’s patient mobility product, but was so effective that the OEM has plans to incorporate this technology into additional devices currently being developed.