Avient Introduces GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles at The Utility Expo 2025

Avient Introduces GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles at The Utility Expo 2025

September 29, 2025

Avient will feature its new GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles and its portfolio of
Glasforms™ electrical transmission and distribution products at The Utility Expo 2025

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - September 29, 2025 - Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, will introduce its new GridCore™ Composite Utility Poles at The Utility Expo, one of the largest events for utility professionals and construction contractors in the industry, in Louisville, Kentucky, October 7-9. The addition of GridCore poles expands Avient's market-leading portfolio of pultruded composite materials for the electrical transmission and distribution market.

GridCore Composite Utility Poles are engineered to enhance electrical grid resilience as an alternative to wood poles, providing a more durable solution. As compared to wood, steel, or concrete poles, GridCore fiberglass-reinforced thermoset composite poles are lighter in weight, enabling ease of installation. They also require less maintenance, offer pest resistance, and are more resilient in corrosive or coastal environments. These advantages can provide a lower total system and lifecycle cost compared to other materials.

GridCore fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite poles are manufactured via a continuous pultrusion process, supporting consistent quality. The one-piece, non-tapered pole profiles are cut to customer-specified lengths and fabricated with pre-drilled holes to customer specifications, including a top cap, a base plate, and a customer-specific nameplate. Additional accessories are also available through Avient.

In addition to GridCore composite poles, the Avient exhibit will also feature:

• Glasforms™ Pultruded Rods, Tubes & Custom Profiles (including guy insulators, crossarms, and more composite technologies for electrical insulators)
• GlasArmor™ Ballistic Resistant Panels and ThermoBallistic™ Composite Panels

Avient is exhibiting at The Utility Expo, October 7-9, 2025, in Booth S4411 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Media registered for the show's Quick Pitch Showcase are invited to hear more details about GridCore utility poles on Tuesday, October 7, starting at 7 a.m. with Avient presenting from 8:37 a.m. to 8:40 a.m. in the Newsroom South Wing Room C105. Media can register for this event by emailing an RSVP to: [email protected].

Explore Avient's GridCore utility pole website 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 https://www.avient.com to learn more.

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Media Contact Nicole DeChant Avient Corporation [email protected]