Avient (AVNT) FY2025 results: revenue $3.3 billion, up 0.6% on the year

Avient formulates specialized plastics materials and the colors and additives that go into them. It buys resins, polymers and additives from large chemical producers and turns them into engineered materials for the companies that design, assemble and process plastic products. It is incorporated in Ohio and headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio, and has 98 manufacturing sites across North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Where it sits in the plastics chain

The filing explains the industry this way. Polymers are generally made by converting natural gas or crude oil derivatives into monomers such as ethylene, propylene and styrene, which are then chained into plastic resins such as polyethylene and polypropylene. Avient does not make those commodity base resins. It sources them and adds further chemistry to formulate materials for a specific use. Some of its materials are thermoplastic composites, in which a resin is combined with glass, carbon or polymer fibers for strength and rigidity.

Two segments

The business reports two segments: Color, Additives and Inks, and Specialty Engineered Materials. Its products include specialty engineered materials, performance fibers, advanced composites, color and additive solutions, performance-enhancing additives, liquid colorants and silicone colorants.

What the materials do

In packaging, colorants and additives make packs lighter, more appealing and easier to recycle, let recycled content be used and protect what is inside. In wire and cable, its materials give electrical insulation and resistance to flame, water and strain. In defense, ultra-high molecular weight fiber goes into tactical vests, hard armor plates, shields, bomb suits, helmets and military vehicles. In healthcare, its plastics are used in intravenous bags, medical tubing, catheters and radiation shielding that replaces lead. In electronics, conductive plastics provide heat transfer, anti-static protection and electromagnetic shielding, including for integrated circuit chip packaging. Other end markets include consumer goods, building and construction, transportation, industrial, energy and telecommunications.

Customers and how it sells

Approximately 61% of 2025 sales were to customers outside the United States, and no customer accounted for more than 3% of consolidated sales. Products are sold mainly through direct sales personnel, distributors and commissioned sales agents, and shipped mostly by truck, though some customers collect from plants or warehouses. The main raw materials are polyolefin and other thermoplastics, titanium dioxide, pigments, specialty additives and ethylene.

History and people

The company was formed as PolyOne Corporation on August 31, 2000, from the consolidation of Geon and Hanna, and renamed itself Avient in 2020. At December 31, 2025 it employed approximately 9,000 people, 33% of them in the U.S. and Canada, 33% in EMEA, 26% in Asia and 8% in Latin America. Approximately 1,100 employees work in technical roles, approximately 120 of them with PhD level educations. Its recordable incident rate in 2025 was 0.60 per 100 full-time workers.

From Avient's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025. The filing

Written from the 10-K filed 17 February 2026: read the full 10-K.