Avient Introduces Groundbreaking Wide-Format Unidirectional Composite Tape and New Composite Utility Poles at CAMX

August 27, 2025

Avient will feature its portfolio of advanced composite materials and engineered fiber solutions at 
CAMX 2025, including the launch of its new Polystrand™ 50-inch-wide Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Unidirectional Tape and GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles

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ORLANDO, Fla – August 27, 2025 – Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, will highlight its portfolio of advanced composite materials and engineered fiber solutions at the upcoming Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX), including the launch of its new Polystrand™ 50-inch-wide Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Unidirectional Tape and GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles, September 9–11. 

Avient’s new Polystrand™ tape offers a wide-format, fiberglass-reinforced unidirectional composite material to enable enhanced manufacturing efficiency and increased production scalability. It will be available in a variety of resins, including polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG), and amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (aPET). The customizable tapes, manufactured in Englewood, CO, will advance innovative opportunities for thermoplastic composites in existing and developing markets.

Avient will also showcase its new GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles, engineered to enhance electrical grid resilience as an alternative to traditional wood, steel, or concrete poles. Compared to poles made from these traditional materials, GridCore fiberglass-reinforced thermoset poles are lighter weight, enabling ease of installation. They are also more durable compared to wood poles, requiring less maintenance and offering pest resistance. These advantages can provide a lower total system and lifecycle cost compared to other materials. The addition of GridCore poles expands Avient’s market-leading portfolio of pultruded composite materials for the electrical transmission and distribution market. Its Glasforms™ pultrusions for insulators, arresters, cross arms, and GridCore utility poles are manufactured in Birmingham, AL.

The Avient exhibit will also feature the following composite technologies:
Thermoplastic Composites:

• Polystrand™ Continuous Fiber Tapes & Laminates: fiber reinforced unidirectional tapes and multi-axial laminates
• Hammerhead™ FR Flame Retardant Composite Panels and Hammerhead™ Thermoplastic Composite Panels
• ThermoBallistic™ Ballistic Resistant Composite Panels 

Thermoset Composites:

• Gordon Composites™ Thermoset Laminates & Barstock: continuous glass and carbon fiber bar stock, laminates, and composite springs for high-temperature industrial applications
• Gordon Glass™ Archery Bow Limbs
• Glasforms™ Pultruded Rods, Tubes, and Custom Profiles
• GlasArmor™ Ballistic Resistant Panels 

Engineered Fiber Solutions:

• Fiber-Line™ Engineered Performance Enhancing Fiber Processes: including Coating, Twisting, and customized Braiding of aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE, and LCP fibers 
• Fiber-Line™ Extrusion Process: thermoset pultruded rods and custom extrusion-coated fiber

Avient is committed to helping customers meet sustainability goals through its advanced composites portfolio. Composites are inherently lightweight alternatives to metal and other materials, enabling sustainability initiatives such as material reduction and fuel economy improvements in many end products.

Avient is exhibiting at the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo – CAMX, the largest, most comprehensive composites and advanced materials event in North America, September 9–11, 2025, in Booth J23 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

Explore Avient’s website for advanced composites and engineered fiber solutions to learn more.

About Avient

Our purpose at Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) 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 presence, allows us to serve customers with agility. We harness the collective strength of more than 9,000 employees worldwide to collaborate and build on each other’s ideas. In doing so, we innovate 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™. By intersecting our broad portfolio of technologies with the product roadmaps of our customers, we help create differentiated and high-performance products that make the world better and more sustainable. Visit www.avient.com to learn more.

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Media Contact
Nicole DeChant
Avient Corporation
nicole.dechant@avient.com