Message from Avient’s VP of Sustainability
Avient introduced a new Purpose and Strategic Framework in 2024, outlining an exciting new growth strategy for our company. It leverages our foundational strengths that we have built up over our 25-year history, like our unwavering customer focus, diverse technology portfolio, commercial excellence, and our strong culture of safety and sustainability.
Innovation and sustainability remain at the core of Avient’s strategy, as sustainability is deeply embedded in our culture and business practices and a strong growth driver for our company. In fact, Avient’s strategy is focused on intersecting high growth markets and secular trends—many of which require sustainability benefits—to drive organic top and bottom-line growth. Our innovative materials solutions help our customers to grow while enabling them meet their sustainability goals, navigate a complex regulatory landscape, and satisfy increasingly environmentally conscious consumers.
We are proud of the progress we have made towards our ambitious 2030 Sustainability Commitments, including goals related to climate change, waste reduction, and sustainable sourcing. We’ve reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by over 50% since 2019, consistently beat our annual waste to landfill targets, and have assessed 75% of our supplier spend on their sustainability performance. For 2025 we are introducing 3 new goals—safety, water stewardship, and community engagement—targets which are closely aligned with our customers’ sustainability commitments. Our commitment to sustainability and progress in our initiatives have earned Avient recognition from prestigious third party sustainability rankings organizations, including Newsweek’s America’s Most Responsible Companies, Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies, and the Newsweek’s America’s Greenest Companies in its inaugural year.
This progress would not be possible without the passion and dedication of our global employees, who work tirelessly across businesses, regions, and functions to achieve these challenging targets.
We invite you to read our 2024 Sustainability Report, which not only highlights our achievements but also outlines our plans for the future. Together, we can make a significant and positive impact in enabling a sustainable world.
Walter Ripple
Vice President of Sustainability
The Avient Sustainability Promise
As a leading provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions, Avient is committed to meeting the needs of the present without compromising future generations’ ability to do the same. We are committed to creating value for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our dedication to ethical, sustainable and fiscally responsible principles.
- We will provide a safe workplace for our employees and will protect our communities by continuously improving our world class environmental, health and safety performance.
- We will put our customers first by helping them grow their businesses with innovative, safe and environmentally sound solutions following the principles of trust and environmental stewardship established in our groundbreaking No Surprises PledgeSM.
- We will strive to minimize our environmental impact and maximize our conservation of the earth’s resources by using energy-efficient technologies, recycling more, reducing waste, continuously improving operating efficiencies and driving operational excellence.
- We will create opportunity for our employees by growing our business, investing in world-class training and development, and making Avient the employer of choice.
- We will be involved in the communities in which we operate by building closer relationships with charitable and public service organizations and encouraging our people’s engagement in local sustainability initiatives.
- We will work collaboratively with our suppliers to lessen the environmental impact of logistics across our global supply chain.
- We will build strong relationships with providers of leadingedge sustainable technologies that affect our businesses.
A Few Highlights from 2024:
- Sustainability performance recognized with a Silver Medal for EcoVadis, and with an A- Ranking for CDP Climate Change
- Ranked as one of America’s Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek, 100 Most Sustainable Companies by Barron’s, and America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek
- Received a Department of Energy 2025 Better Practice Award for innovative and industry-leading accomplishments in energy management
- Made strong progress in reducing company’s Scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions, exceeding a 50% reduction in 2024 vs. 2019
- Avient achieved its best safety performance to date in 2024 with a total recordable incident rate (TRIR) of 0.40 per 100 employees