PolyOne and Xindao Collaborate on “Sunshine”

Published May 19, 2013

GUANGZHOU, China – At Chinaplas 2013 this week, PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), apremier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced a successful global collaboration with Xindao (Rijswijk, The Netherlands) and its design studio XD Design (Shanghai, China) to increase the content of renewable resources within the new XD Design Sunshine Solar Charger. Working together at the early stages of the design phase, PolyOne, Xindao and XD Design developed all of the molded plastic casing components for this charger from reSound™ biopolymer, which Xindao estimates will reduce the CO2 footprint for this product by as much as 35 percent compared to alternatives.