Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
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Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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<div align='center'>PROXY STATEMENT 2025 | Annual Meeting of Shareholders 3</div>

#### OUR PURPOSE AND STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

#### Our Purpose and Strategic Framework
2024 was an important year of change for Avient. We developed and launched a new strategy to deliver and accelerate organic growth. Our purpose at Avient is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. Our local touch and customer engagement, combined with our global reach, allows us to serve customers with agility. We harness the collective strength of 9,000+ employees worldwide to collaborate and build on each other’s ideas. In doing so, we innovate materials solutions that help our customers overcome their challenges or capitalize on opportunities provided by the fast-changing world and secular trends. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™.

We have a two-pronged strategic approach, where we seek to intersect high-growth markets and secular trends with our technologies to (1) build new platforms of scale by playing bigger and bolder in high-growth markets, and (2) catalyze the core of our business, maximizing the impact of what we have. Our strategy utilizes four supporting strategic drivers: Portfolio Prioritization; Amplify Innovation; Digital for Operational Excellence and Growth; and Leadership, Talent and Culture for the Avient of the Future. All of this is underpinned by the established foundational strengths of Avient, which have been built and refined over the 25-year history of the Company. While our strategy has evolved, we remain committed to being a world-class organization by continuing to focus on People, Products, Planet, and Performance.

People

Avient has elevated our People strategy in alignment with our new Company strategy, which is captured in the strategic driver "Leadership, Talent and Culture for the Avient of the Future." The success and growth of our business depend in large part on our ability to attract, develop and retain a broad-base of talented and high-performing employees at all levels of our organization. We are committed