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$400 billion of planned petrochemical outlay at risk on exaggerated plastics demand
Carbon Tracker Initiative, 04 September 2020
Key Quotes
Remove the plastic pillar holding up the future of the oil
industry, and the whole narrative of rising oil demand collapses.
Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker Energy Strategist and report lead
author.
There are huge benefits in the change from the current linear
system to a more circular one. You can have all the functionality
of plastics but at half the capital cost, half the amount of
feedstock, 700,000 additional jobs and 80% less plastic pollution.
Yoni Shiran, lead author of Breaking the Plastic Wave
Avient Announces Quarterly Dividend
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CLEVELAND, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Board of Directors of Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), a leading provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of twenty-one and one-quarter cents ($0.2125) per share on the common stock outstanding, to be paid on July 8, 2021, to stockholders of record on June 18, 2021.
About Avient
Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), with 2021 expected revenues of $4.3 billion, provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:
Barrier technologies that preserve the shelf-life and quality of food, beverages, medicine and other perishable goods through high-performance materials that require less plastic
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Amcor Third Quarter 2021 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. Please be advised, today s conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Tracey Whitehead. Please go ahead.
Tracey Whitehead
Investor Relations
Thank you, operator, and I would like to welcome everyone to Amcor s Third Quarter Earnings Call for Fiscal 21. Joining the call today from Amcor s side is our Chief Executive Officer, Ron Delia; and Chief Financial Officer, Michael Casamento. At this time, I ll direct your attention to our website, amcor.com, under the Investors section, where you ll find our press release and presentation which we will discuss today. We ll also discuss non-GAAP financial measures, and related reconciliations can be found in those documents on our website. As a reminder, the call today includes some forward-looking comments, w