PolyOne Highlights Growing Global Leadership Position with High-Performance Product Portfolio at Chinaplas 2008

SHANGHAI, China – April 17, 2008 – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a leading global provider of specialized polymer materials, services, and solutions, is exhibiting its latest offering of specialty engineered materials, vinyl compounds, colorants, additives, and thermoplastic elastomers (TPE’s) in Hall 3 Booth # W3D21 at Chinaplas 2008, April 17 – 20. Highlights include a significantly expanded thermoplastic elastomer line, resulting from the recent acquisition of GLS Corporation, a global leader in the manufacture of high-performance, custom-formulated TPEs.

The addition of GLS products to PolyOne’s TPE portfolio underscores the company’s growing global leadership position as a supplier of cutting-edge materials options for a wide range of products for the consumer, medical, hand-held electronics, computer accessories, sports and leisure, automotive, lawn and garden, appliance, kitchen utensils, power tool, personal care, and industrial market segments. TPEs provide a variety of benefits, including soft-touch, comfort, slip resistance, dampening, sealing, and FDA and other regulatory compliance.

PolyOne’s extensive portfolio of specialty materials being featured at Chinaplas 2008 includes:

Specialty Engineered Materials

•Maxxam™ flame-retardant polyolefin compounds

•Nymax T™ crystalline nylon compounds

•NymaxTM and Bergamid™ polyamide compounds

•Bergadur™ semi-crystalline polybutylene terephthalate compounds

•Edgetek™ high performance engineered thermoplastic compounds

•Gravi-Tech™ high-density polymer-metal composites

•Therma-Tech™ thermally conductive compounds

Vinyl Compounds

•Geon™ Vinyl rigid and flexible compounds

Colorants

•OnColor™ BIO - color concentrates for biodegradable polymers

Additives

•OnCap™ BIO - additive concentrates for biodegradable polymers

•OnColorTM FastMark™ colorants for laser marking

LSFOH

•ECCOH™ low smoke and fume, zero halogen (LSFOH) Compounds

TPEs

•DYNAFLEX™ TPE compounds based on Kraton® Polymers.

•VERSAFLEX™ TPE alloys for specialty applications.

•On-Flex™ thermoplastic elastomers – including TPE-S, TPE-V, TPE-U grades.

•VERSALLOY™ TPV alloys.

•DYNALLOY™ OBC compounds - a new family of TPEs based on INFUSE™ olefin block copolymer technology licensed from The Dow Chemical Company.

GLS TPEs are being showcased at Chinaplas 2008 in Hall 2 Booth W2J11.

“Chinaplas 2008 represents a unique opportunity to show PolyOne’s ability to provide a one-stop shop to our customers,” said Willie Chien, vice president and general manager of Color and Engineered Materials – Asia. “We believe customers benefit from working with a supplier that offers a full array of products, services, and expertise to address different needs. We are committed to providing the most complete product offering to customers in China, Greater Asia, and around the world.”

For more information about Chinaplas 2008, visit www.chinaplasonline.com.

™ Maxxam, NymaxT, Bergamid, Bergadur, Edgetek, Gravi-Tech, Therma-Tech, Geon,

OnColor, OnCap, FastMark, and ECCOH are trademarks of PolyOne Corporation.

TM DYNAFLEX, VERSAFLEX, VERSALLOY, and DYNALLOY are trademarks of GLS Corporation

DYNAFLEX compounds contain KRATON Polymers.

® KRATON is a trademark of KRATON Polymers U.S. LLC.

TM VERSOLLAN is a trademark of GLS and contains high performance thermoplastic urethanes.

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About PolyOne:

PolyOne Corporation, with annual revenues of more than $2.7 billion, is a leading global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions. Headquartered outside of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., PolyOne has operations around the world. See www.polyone.com for additional information on PolyOne.