Avient 可持续发展副总裁致辞
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
可持续发展副总裁
Avient 可持续发展承诺
作为专业和可持续材料解决方案的领先供应商，Avient 致力于满足当代人的需求，同时不损害后代人做同样事情的能力。我们致力于通过恪守道德、可持续发展和财务负责原则，为我们的客户、员工、社区和股东创造价值。
- 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.
- 我们将客户放在首位，按照我们开创性的 No Surprises PledgeSM 中确立的信任和环境管理原则，通过创新、安全和环保的解决方案帮助他们发展业务。
- 我们将通过使用节能技术、更多地回收利用、减少废物、不断提高运营效率和推动运营优化，努力将我们对环境的影响降到最低，并最大限度地保护地球资源。
- 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.
- 我们将通过与慈善和公共服务组织建立更密切的关系，并鼓励我们的员工参与当地的可持续发展计划，从而与我们经营所在的社区有更多的互动。
- 我们将与我们的供应商合作，减少我们全球供应链中的物流对环境的影响。
- 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
