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Avient acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Avient bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

Business	Deal	When	Value
DSM Protective Materials business (APM) Word for word“On September 1, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of the DSM Protective Materials business, including the Dyneema® brand, the World's Strongest Fiber™.” 10-K for 2023	acquisition	September 1, 2022	—
Distribution business Word for word“Distribution business sale On November 1, 2022, Avient sold its Distribution business to an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital for $950.0 million in cash, subject to a customary working capital adjustment.” 10-K for 2023	divestiture	November 1, 2022	$950.0 million in cash
APM Acquisition Word for word“In 2022, we entered into certain foreign currency derivative contracts to mitigate the potential impact of foreign currency exchange rate changes on the purchase price associated with the APM Acquisition, which the Company did not originally designate as hedges.” 10-K for 2024	acquisition	—	—

As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year ended	Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)	Cash received from selling businesses	Goodwill from acquisitions
2016-12-31	$164.2 million	$13 million	$79.4 million
2017-12-31	$163.8 million	$111 million	$77 million
2018-12-31	$98.6 million	$0	$42.1 million
2019-12-31	$119.6 million	$761.8 million	$47.9 million
2020-12-31	$1.38 billion	$7.1 million	$569 million
2021-12-31	$47.6 million	$0	$14.1 million
2022-12-31	$1.43 billion	$928.2 million	$396.5 million
2023-12-31	$0	$7.3 million	$10.3 million
2024-12-31	$0	$0	—
2025-12-31	—	$0	—

Deal filings since 2016

2025-06-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2025-03-17 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-09-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-08-17 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-11-07 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2022-09-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-09-01 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2022-08-12 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-08-10 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-06-24 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-04-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-07-01 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2020-05-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-12-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-10-28 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2019-08-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-07-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-11-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-07-25 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2017-06-29 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-02-27 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-08-05 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Read from Avient’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-17. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.