Polyone-Specialized Polymer Materials, Services and Solutions

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL) is a global leader offering a comprehensive array of specialized polymer materials, tailored services and end-to-end solutions. We have:

More than 10,000 customers in 35 countries

More than 35,000 products

More than 40 manufacturing facilities in 20 countries

Operations in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia

Joint ventures in North America and South America

Corporate headquarters in northeast Ohio (U.S.A.)

Annual revenues of $2.7 billion

We understand that, in today's competitive, warp-speed global economy, your success depends on being first to market with innovative, value-creating materials and services. That is why we manufacture many materials to help solve the demanding application and business needs of molders and processors. For more information on our solutions, visit Products & Services.
Our solutions are the right choice for customers who want to achieve profit and growth with innovative products, enter new markets, expand globally and much more. In this high-stakes environment, you can rely on us as your strategic partner – a partner whose notion of service goes well beyond merely supplying needs, to delivering better business solutions. Our commitment to you as a PolyOne customer is a core principle, embedded in every dimension of our company.

We offer many families of materials to help solve the demanding application needs of our customers. Our solutions are the right choice for customers who want to achieve profit and growth with innovative products, enter new markets, expand globally and much more.
Working with our customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements, we help them create marketable products – with the goal of delivering solutions with meaningful and measurable value.

Our Product Families

	Bio-Related Products		Engineered Resins & Compounds
	Vinyl plastisols & Organosols		Plasticizers
	Screen Printing Inks & Dyes		Vinyl Coated Fabrics
	Vinyl Extrusion & Molding Compounds		Vinyl Powder Coating & Dip Molding Compounds
	Color & Additive Concentrates		General Purpose Resins & Compounds
	Natural Rubber Latex Compounds		Polyone Distribution
	Thermoplastic Elastomers		Vinyl Dispersion & Blending Resins
	Low Smoke and Fume, Zero halogen (ISFOH) Compounds

Services
With our wide range of services, we go beyond simply meeting our customers' needs, and help them develop solutions to part and processing concerns. We create value for our customers and help ensure that they are first to market.
Our customers work with us to design new products, analyze performance problems, troubleshoot processing issues, diagnose failure mechanisms and qualify materials.
Our services include:

	Application development– Make your application idea a reality by working with our experts.
	Color design centers–Use PolyOne software to design the color and/or special effect of your specific part.
	"Color use" audits–Reduce total cost of color parts by reviewing your manufacturing and distribution facilities and determining color waste and potential color control mechanisms.
	Custom compound development – Work with our team to create a custom compound that meets your exact processing and end-use application needs.
	Custom toll compounding capabilities – Use PolyOne's facilities in NAFTA region to compound your product. Dedicated to resin producers, processors and OEMs that need additional production capacity or want pilot plant experience prior to full production.
	Material selection – Choose the most appropriate and cost-effective compound, color or additive for your specific manufacturing process and application.

Part and tooling design assistance–Leverage our polymer knowledge and processing experience to improve the design of your part through FEA-based part design. The geometry can be passed to other FEA-based programs, including structural, filling, cooling, processing and tool manufacturing software.

	Process simulations– Leverage our FEA-based filling, cooling and processing analyses of a part and tool design to improve your process.
	Productivity assessment – Improve the efficiency of your machine or manufacturing line.
	"Rapid response" delivery – Have color and/or additive concentrates delivered to your location within 24 hours.
	Specialized color-matching services – Quickly develop colored part concepts and final designs for product stage or re-stage efforts.
	Structural analyses– Determine the structure of a part design using FEA-based structural analyses.
	Training programs – Build the expertise of your staff by participating in our training programs.

In addition, Polymer Diagnostics, Inc. (PDI), a wholly owned subsidiary of PolyOne Corporation, provides extensive testing and consultative services, including:
Mechanical and physical property testing

Chemical analysis and microscopy
Fire science

PolyOne has broad experience in most every industry where polymers are used.
In today’s competitive, global business environment, success is more challenging than ever. No matter what your industry or which markets you serve, your success depends on growing revenue, improving margins, developing innovative products, operating more efficiently and effectively, and protecting your brand and reputation.
Your challenge is made easier when you can depend on a supplier to engage with you – to know your business environment and your needs as well as you do. Industries are diverse and distinctive and often require unique solutions. At PolyOne:

•	We understand your business
•	We help you compete globally
•	We anticipate your needs
•	We help drive efficiencies and reduce complex processes
	Appliance-We work closely with OEMs, component suppliers and processors to meet the ever-evolving needs of the end user.
	Building & Construction-Polyone solutions are integral to countless products that people use daily at home, at work and at play.
	Consumer-We focus on understanding your business to help you deliver the solutions your customers demand and deserve.
	Electrical & Electronics-With extensive expertise in bringing innovative technologies to oems and processors, we can develop unique solutions for any application.
	Healthcare -Polyone understands the demand for innovative solutions in a competitive industry full of regulatory issues, and the need to achieve profit and growth.
	Industrial-We go well beyond materials to deliver the services and solutions that make you more competitive in your industry and essential to your customers' businesses.
	Packaging-Our color concentrates help your packaging match any standard, while our special-effect concentrates ensure your products look like no others.
	Textiles-Polyone provides a variety of polymer solutions and services to meet the needs of the textile industry
	Transportation-Our solutions are integral to countless products that people use in transit around the world.
	Wire & cable-With the ability to meet regulatory and product specifications globally, we draw on a range of polymers, colorants and services to find the optimum solutions.

PolyOne's customer-focused business units are distinguished by the breadth and depth of their materials, services and technologies. Our businesses serve a diverse array of end markets and hold leading industry positions. We share a commitment to delivering specialized, value-creating solutions and building long-term partnerships with customers

	Color & Additives - Color and additive concentrates, color and additive systems, single-component and multifunctional performance additives, and virtual color-matching technology.
	Geon Compounds - Proprietary and custom vinyl, and vinyl-based compounds and performance additives.
	GLS Thermoplastic Elastomers - GLS offers the broadest range of soft touch TPE materials in the industry. GLS is now a PolyOne Company!
	PolyOne Distribution - Critical link between resin suppliers and users, distributing more than 3,500 thermoplastic resins and compounds from approximately 20 major material suppliers.
	Producer Services - Contract compounding services for resin producers, processors and OEMs that help them meet the needs of their diverse industries.
	Specialty Coatings & Resins - Geon™ dispersion, blending, powder-coating and specialized suspension vinyl resins; vinyl plastisols and powders; and UK-based coated fabrics and additives distribution.
	Specialty Engineered Materials High - Performance polymer compounds utilizing a broad range of polyolefin, nylon, thermoplastic and thermoplastic elastomer resins - focused on challenging applications.
	Specialty Inks & Polymer Systems - Polyurethanes, screen-printing inks, additives, specialty colorants, latex and aqueous concentrates.