Avient Corp. AVNT

What this company does

Avient Corporation's products include specialty engineered materials, performance fibers, advanced composites and color and additive solutions, and it develops and manufactures performance enhancing additives, liquid colorants and silicone colorants. It currently has 98 manufacturing sites in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In 2025, the company had sales of $3.3 billion, approximately 61% of which were to customers outside the United States. As of December 31, 2025, Avient employed approximately 9,000 people, 33% of whom were located in the U.S. and Canada, 33% in EMEA, 26% in Asia, and 8% in Latin America. It operates in two reportable segments: Color, Additives and Inks, and Specialty Engineered Materials. Avient was formed as PolyOne Corporation on August 31, 2000, from the consolidation of The Geon Company and M.A. Hanna Company. 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.

Written from the business description in AVIENT CORPORATION's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 17 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.