SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Clark Philip G Jr (Last) (First) (Middle) AVIENT CORPORATION 33587 WALKER ROAD (Street) AVON LAKE OH 44012 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 11/04/2024	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol AVIENT CORP [ AVNT ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) SVP, Chief Technology Officer	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

No securities are beneficially owned.

	/s/ Robert K. James, Power of Attorney for Philip G. Clark, Jr.	11/05/2024
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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Power of Attorney

Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
each of Amy M. Sanders, Jamie A. Beggs, Kristen A. Gajewski, and Robert K.
James, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
1.	Prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf,
and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form
ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or
appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make
electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC; and
2.	Execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director of Avient Corporation (the "Corporation"), Forms
3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and the rules thereunder; and 3.	Do and perform any and all acts for and
on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete
and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with the SEC and
any stock exchange or similar authority; and 4.	Take any other action of any
type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such
attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally
required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed
by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of
Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as
such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion. The
undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or
such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Corporation assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibility to
comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 	This Power of
Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no
longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's
holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Corporation, unless
earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact. 	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused
this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 28th day of October, 2024. /s/
Philip G. Clark, Jr.