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CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	SD
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20250602
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250602

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AVIENT CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001122976
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PLASTICS, MATERIALS, SYNTH RESINS & NONVULCAN ELASTOMERS [2821]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	08 Industrial Applications and Services
		EIN:				341730488
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-16091
		FILM NUMBER:		251013327

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		33587 WALKER ROAD
		CITY:			AVON LAKE
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			44012
		BUSINESS PHONE:		440-930-1000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		33587 WALKER ROAD
		CITY:			AVON LAKE
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			44012

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	POLYONE CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20000830
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i3377a811c0724d8e965c419237444d79_1"></div><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Exhibit 1.01</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">AVIENT CORPORATION</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Conflict Minerals Report</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">For the Reporting Period from January&#160;1, 2024 to December&#160;31, 2024</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">This Conflict Minerals Report (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Report</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) for Avient Corporation for the reporting period from January&#160;1 through December&#160;31, 2024 (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Reporting Period</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) is filed as an exhibit to Form SD as required by Rule 13p-1 (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Rule</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">SEC</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured or contracted for manufacture products contain conflict minerals, as defined in the Rule, that are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Conflict Minerals</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221; are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, wolframite, and their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum, and tungsten.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">This Report has not been audited, nor is an independent private sector audit required for this Report under the Rule, the SEC partial stay of the Rule or existing SEC guidance.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Statements in this Report which express a belief, expectation or intention, as well as those that are not historical fact, are forward-looking statements, including statements related to our compliance efforts and expected actions identified in this Report. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, among other matters, our customers&#8217; requirements to use certain suppliers, our suppliers&#8217; responsiveness and cooperation with our due diligence efforts, our ability to implement improvements in our conflict minerals program, and our ability to identify and mitigate related risks in our supply chain. If one or more of these or other risks materialize, actual results may vary materially from those expressed. For a more complete discussion of these and other risk factors, see our other filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December&#160;31, 2024. We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Report, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, except to the extent required by applicable law.</font></div><div style="margin-top:19.8pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">1.&#160;&#160; Company Overview</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">This Report is prepared by management of Avient Corporation. When used in this Report, the terms &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Avient</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">,&#8221; &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">we</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">,&#8221; &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">us</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">,&#8221; or &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">our</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221; and the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221; mean Avient Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">We are an innovator of materials solutions to help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. Our products include specialty engineered materials, performance fibers, advanced composites and color and additive solutions. We are also a highly specialized developer and manufacturer of performance enhancing additives, liquid colorants and silicone colorants. We operate in two reportable segments&#58; (1) Color, Additives and Inks&#59; and (2) Specialty Engineered Materials.</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:2pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"><br><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">2.&#160;&#160; Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">For the Reporting Period, the Company determined after review that it manufactures or contracts to manufacture certain products that contain Conflict Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of the Products, specifically&#58; 1) polymer-metal composites, which contain tungsten powder&#59; and 2) components purchased for assembly into color dosing&#47;delivery equipment and tooling, which comprise a</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> de minimis</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> percentage (&#60;.01%) of our annual revenue, and contain tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold. &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Products</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221; are the products described above within the scope of the Rule.<br><br>Because of this finding, we conducted in good faith a reasonable country of origin inquiry (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">RCOI</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;), reasonably designed to determine whether any of the Necessary Conflict Minerals (as defined below) contained in the Products originated or may have originated in a Covered Country (as defined below) or came from recycled or scrap sources. &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Necessary Conflict Minerals</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221; are Conflict Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of Products that we manufacture or that we contract with others to manufacture for us. A &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Covered Country</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221; is the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an &#8220;adjoining country&#8221; (as defined in the Rule).</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Avient&#8217;s supply chain is complex, and there are indirect suppliers in the supply chain between us and the mines or locations of origin of our Necessary Conflict Minerals. We do not purchase any of our Necessary Conflict Minerals directly from miners or refiners, and we purchase a very small amount of Necessary Conflict Minerals directly from two (2) smelters. Therefore, for the most part, we must rely on our suppliers to provide information about the origin of the Necessary Conflict Minerals in our Products.</font></div><div style="height:61.92pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">To conduct the RCOI, we identified thirty-eight (38)&#160;direct suppliers of materials or products containing Necessary Conflict Minerals and sent requests to each of those direct suppliers asking them to provide us with country of origin information about those Necessary Conflict Minerals. As part of the request, we provided suppliers with, and suppliers were asked to complete, the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template, revision 6.4, developed by the Responsible Minerals Initiative (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">RMI</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;). Suppliers responding without completing the RMI conflict minerals reporting template were again requested to complete the template. Suppliers failing to respond were sent reminders to complete the request. We provided information and offered assistance to suppliers about the specific content of the Rule and the information requested. We asked our suppliers to engage with their own suppliers to gather the requested information.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">We received responses from one-hundred percent (100%)&#160;of the suppliers we surveyed. However, some suppliers did not fully respond to our inquiries, or were unable to respond fully based on information available from their own suppliers. Further, some of our suppliers did not adequately confirm the country of origin of Necessary Conflict Minerals supplied to us. As a result of these responses, we were unable to determine that none of our Necessary Conflict Minerals originated or may have originated in the Covered Countries or are not or may not be from recycled or scrap sources. Therefore, we conducted due diligence on the source and chain of custody of those Necessary Conflict Minerals in the Products.</font></div><div style="margin-top:19.8pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">3.&#160;&#160; Due Diligence Program</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3.1 Design of Due Diligence</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Our due diligence measures were designed to conform, in all material respects, with the due diligence framework set forth in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (&#34;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">OECD</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#34;) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, Third Edition, 2016 (&#34;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">OECD Guidance</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#34;) and the related supplements for tin, tantalum, and tungsten and for gold.</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3.2&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Due Diligence Measures Performed</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">The following is a description of the due diligence measures performed for the Reporting Period.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt;text-indent:23.1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3.2.1 OECD Step #1&#58; Establish and maintain strong company management systems</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:6pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;</font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:3.886%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:5.132%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.908%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:86.574%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8226;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">The Company maintains a Conflict Minerals management system. The cross-functional Conflict Minerals work group is sponsored by the Senior Vice President, Global Operations and Process Improvement and includes representatives from Environmental, Health and Safety&#59; Internal Audit&#59; Legal&#59; Product Stewardship&#59; and Sourcing. 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We followed up with non-responding suppliers using electronic correspondence and&#47;or telephone calls.</font></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8226;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We post our Conflict Minerals Policy at https&#58;&#47;&#47;www.avient.com&#47;sites&#47;default&#47;files&#47;2020-10&#47;avient-conflict-minerals-policy-10.2020.pdf and Supplier Code of Conduct at https&#58;&#47;&#47;www.avient.com&#47;sites&#47;default&#47;files&#47;2023-06&#47;Supplier%20Code%20of%20Conduct%20FV.pdf to communicate to our suppliers our position on Conflict Minerals. The content of any website referred to in this Report is not incorporated by reference in this Conflict Minerals Report. We periodically evaluate our Conflict Minerals Policy to confirm it aligns with our values and our expectations of our suppliers.</font></div></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8226;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">It is the Company&#8217;s policy to retain relevant supplier response documentation in electronic form for a period of no less than five years.</font></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:6pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8226;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We maintain an ethics hotline, accessible by webpage https&#58;&#47;&#47;secure.ethicspoint.com&#47;domain&#47;media&#47;en&#47;gui&#47;49178&#47;index.html, telephone and email, which can be used by anyone, including employees, customers, vendors and other stakeholders, to report any concerns relating to our Necessary Conflict Minerals activities. Any reports relating to Conflict Minerals that are made to our ethics hotline will be investigated appropriately.</font></div></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8226;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">We communicate our Conflict Minerals Policy and Supplier Code of Conduct to suppliers, and incorporate in our agreements with our suppliers the requirement to comply with our Conflict Minerals Policy and processes by agreeing to adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct (including its provisions on Conflict Minerals).</font></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:61.92pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">2</font></div><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:3.886%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:5.132%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.908%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:86.574%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8226;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">We provided status updates and summaries of responses to our inquiries from suppliers to management, including the Senior Vice President, Global Operations and Process Improvement&#59; the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary, and Corporate Compliance Officer&#59; the Vice President, Audit&#59; the Vice President, Sourcing&#59; and the Vice President, Environmental, Health &#38; Safety.</font></td></tr></table></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt;text-indent:23.1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3.2.2 OECD Step #2&#58; Identify and assess risks in the supply chain</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">An Avient sourcing analyst monitored receipt of and compiled supplier inquiry responses. The Conflict Minerals work group met periodically to review supplier responses as we received them. The review process compared supplier responses against criteria to determine which responses required further engagement with our suppliers to address incomplete, inconsistent, or inaccurate responses. Such criteria included, but were not limited to, thoroughness of the response, position of the individual responding to the request, consistency of responses, as well as other factors. We continued to engage with suppliers to obtain clarification or additional information deemed necessary by the review process, and where necessary, directed them to resources in an effort to improve the content and quality of their responses.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Supplier responses that included the names of smelters or refiners were compared to the list of active and conformant smelters and refiners identified by RMI on the RMI website. Based on that comparison, we determined how many were deemed to be conformant or active in the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt;text-indent:23.1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3.2.3 OECD Step #3&#58; Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">In response to the risk assessment of the supply chain as outlined in Section&#160;3.2.2 above, Avient has a process through which the Conflict Minerals program is implemented, managed, and monitored. When smelters and refiners were disclosed by suppliers, we checked those smelters and refiners against the active and conformant smelter and refiner lists by RMI on the RMI website, and determined that all smelters and refiners identified were active or conformant. Updates to the risk assessment were provided to the Senior Vice President, Global Operations and Process Improvement and the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary, and Corporate Compliance Officer by the Conflict Minerals work group.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">As part of the risk management plan, we engaged and educated suppliers of Necessary Conflict Minerals about our expectations regarding Conflict Minerals via electronic letter inquiry and verbal discussion, where required. If suppliers were unresponsive, we reiterated our objective to use conflict free materials and components in our products.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt;text-indent:23.1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3.2.4 OECD Step #4&#58; Carry out independent third-party audit of smelter&#8217;s&#47;refiner&#8217;s due diligence practices</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">With the exception of two (2) direct relationships with smelters (as identified below), we do not have direct relationships with the smelters and refiners identified by our suppliers as being in their supply chain. We do not perform or direct audits of these entities within our supply chain. However, we believe that audits of smelters&#8217; and refiners&#8217; due diligence practices conducted by third parties are the best way to identify smelters and refiners that have due diligence systems in place that promote responsible sourcing.  Therefore, we rely upon industry-wide efforts (for example, through RMI) to influence smelters and refiners to be audited, and to provide certification of conformance with a due diligence audit by a recognized and qualified third-party.</font></div><div style="margin-top:13.2pt;text-indent:23.1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3.2.5 OECD Step #5&#58; Report annually on supply chain due diligence</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">We report annually on our Conflict Minerals due diligence by making our Form SD and this Report publicly available on our company website at https&#58;&#47;&#47;www.avient.com&#47;investors&#47;financials&#47;reporting-sec-filings.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">4.&#160;&#160; Results of Review</font></div><div style="margin-top:6.6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">As described above, we conducted due diligence to determine the source and chain of custody of the Necessary Conflict Minerals in our Products. As part of that process, we actively surveyed our direct suppliers that we believed potentially supplied us with products containing Necessary Conflict Minerals during calendar year 2024 and requested that they disclose the smelters and refiners that processed the Necessary Conflict Minerals in the products they supplied to us. For calendar year 2024, we received completed RMI conflict minerals reporting template and&#47;or letter responses from one-hundred percent (100%)&#160;of the suppliers surveyed. 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