NEWS RELEASE

Moody's Upgrades PolyOne

CLEVELAND - July 10, 2007 - PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a leading global
provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced
today that Moody's Investors Services has upgraded the corporate family rating
("CFR") for the company to a B1 rating from a B2 rating. Moody's also raised the
rating of PolyOne's unsecured debt to B1 from B2.

Moody's reacted positively to PolyOne's recent announcement of the sale of its
24 percent interest in Oxy Vinyls, L.P. for cash proceeds of $261 million, which
the company will use to reduce the entire outstanding balance of its 10.625
percent Senior Notes due 2010. Moody's cited that "PolyOne's upgrade reflects
the significant reduction in interest expense expected from this transaction
allowing earnings from the company's wholly-owned operations, excluding
extraordinary items, to exceed interest expense for the first time in several
years. In addition, it removes the refinancing risk related to the $240 million
debt maturity in 2010."

PolyOne Chairman, President and CEO Steve Newlin said, "We have worked very hard
and are extremely pleased with the positive reaction from Moody's and Wall
Street to our latest transaction and the great possibilities this opens up for
our company."

About PolyOne

PolyOne Corporation, with 2006 annual revenues of $2.6 billion, is a leading
global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions.
Headquartered in northeast Ohio, PolyOne has operations in North America,
Europe, Asia and Australia, and joint ventures in North America and South
America. See www.polyone.com for additional information on PolyOne.

Investor & Media Contact: Dennis Cocco
                          Vice President, Investor Relations & Communications
                          440.930.1538



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results of current and anticipated market conditions and market strategies;
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and financial results. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially include, but are not limited to:

o     changes in polymer consumption growth rates within the U.S., Europe or
      Asia or other countries where PolyOne conducts business;
o     changes in global industry capacity or in the rate at which anticipated
      changes in industry capacity come online in the polyvinyl chloride (PVC),
      chlor-alkali, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) or other industries in which
      PolyOne participates;
o     fluctuations in raw material prices, quality and supply and in energy
      prices and supply, in particular fluctuations outside the normal range of
      industry cycles;
o     an inability to achieve or delays in achieving or achievement of less than
      the anticipated financial benefit from initiatives related to cost
      reductions and employee productivity goals;
o     a delay or inability to achieve targeted debt level reductions;
o     any delay and/or inability to bring the North American Color and Additives
      and the North American Engineered Materials segments to profitability;
o     an inability to raise or sustain prices for products or services;
o     other factors affecting our business beyond our control, including,
      without limitation, changes in the general economy, changes in interest
      rates and changes in the rate of inflation.

We cannot guarantee that any forward-looking statement will be realized,
although we believe we have been prudent in our plans and assumptions.
Achievement of future results is subject to risks, uncertainties and inaccurate
assumptions. Should known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, or
should underlying assumptions prove inaccurate, actual results could vary
materially from those anticipated, estimated or projected. Investors should bear
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We undertake no obligation to publicly update forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You are
advised, however, to consult any further disclosures we make on related subjects
in our reports on Form 10-Q, 8-K and 10-K that we provide to the Securities and
Exchange Commission. You should understand that it is not possible to predict or
identify all risk factors. Consequently, you should not consider any list to be
a complete set of all potential risks or uncertainties.

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