2024

Message from the CEO

In 2024, we took a significant step in our company’s evolution by developing and beginning to execute a new strategic framework for the Avient of the future. Our overarching performance objective is to deliver organic topline growth with margin expansion on the bottom line. I’m very pleased that in 2024 we achieved both.

While our strategic framework introduces many new and exciting focus areas, it also reinforces and builds upon the foundational strengths we have established throughout our 25-year history. Among these strengths, is our ongoing commitment to sustainability.

In fact, sustainability is so central to Avient and our stakeholders that we’ve embedded it into our new Purpose statement: to be an innovator of materials solutions to help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. This purpose isn’t just aspirational—it’s a practical commitment that guides our daily actions and long-term strategy.

Given our unique position in the value chain and our differentiated portfolio of materials solutions, we have a great opportunity to positively impact our planet and all its inhabitants. In addition to operating global sustainable business practices, we also have the distinct privilege of leveraging materials science to help our customers enhance the sustainability of their own products.

These are responsibilities embraced by our more than 9,000 employees worldwide. We live a culture of safety and sustainability, which we extend to all those we do business with. The progress highlighted in this Sustainability Report reflects this mindset, as do the stories we share in our other communication channels throughout the year.

On the pages that follow, I invite you to explore the many ways we are enabling a sustainable world—by executing on the tenets of our new strategic framework, which in turn also helps our customers succeed on their own sustainability journeys.

Dr. Ashish Khandpur

President and Chief Executive Officer