With our Rising Stars award program, Plastics News wants to recognize the next generation of plastics industry workers, including educators, engineers, designers, operators, scientists, marketing professionals and sustainability directors.
This is the 10th year for the program, and Special Projects Editor Jordan Vitick whittled about 100 submissions to just 35 honorees age 35 or younger.
We'll let you know when submissions open for next year's class, but in the meantime, please read and share our Rising Stars this year. Our 2022 list can be read here. Find more information on Rising Stars here.
We'll be featuring a few of our Rising Stars in our Daily Report throughout the next few weeks.
Look next week for social media posts featuring all of our Rising Stars and join the plastics conversation over on our LinkedIn page, connect with other industry members in our LinkedIn professional community, follow along on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We also are over on YouTube.
Here is the list in alphabetical order:
- Lidia Acosta, 28, PE Master and Replenishment Planning, Saudi Basic Industries Corp.
- Adam Arruda, 35, Plant Engineer, Teknor Apex Co.
- Katherine Barton, 31, Senior Analyst, Saudi Basic Industries Corp.
- Paul Cucco, 28, Technical Manager, C-P Flexible Packaging
- Trevor Day, 35, Vice President, Michael Day Enterprises LLC
- Marzieh Ebrahimi, 34, Innovation Accelerator, PE Technology, Nova Chemicals Corp.
- Alex Edmunds, 33, Quality Engineer, Technimark LLC
- Pere Ferrer Borrell, 32, Application Development Engineer, Nexeo Plastics
- Jeremiah Foster, 23, Business Development, Core Technology Molding Corp.
- Tuesday Geeting, 31, Senior Innovation Marketing Manager, Teknor Apex Co.
- Hannah Johnson, 26, Senior Strategic Planning Analyst, M. Holland Co.
- Justin Jolliffe, 30, Senior Environmental, Health and Safety Manager, Teknor Apex Co.
- Josh Jones, 26, Lead Technical Services and Development Research Specialist, Dow Inc.
- Courtney Kay, 31, Senior Sales Representative, Elkem Silicones USA Corp.
- Rosalyn Kent, 31, Associate Scientist, Technical Service and Development, Dow Inc.
- Yokly Leng, 25, Process Development and Manufacturing Engineer, Product and Applications, CJ Biomaterials Inc.
- Paula Lopez, 30, EMEA Product Line Manager, Nexeo Plastics
- Elva Lugo, 35, Research Scientist, Dow Inc.
- Jason Merkle, 35, Technical Manager, Chase Plastic Services Inc.
- T.J. Moneta, 31, Manufacturing Manager, Bridgville Plastics Inc.
- Ushma Patel, 26, Quality Engineer, Comar LLC
- Lexington Peterson, 24, Field Process Engineer, Imflux Inc.
- Nathan Rader-Edkin, 29, Plastics Innovation and Resource Center Program Manager, Pennsylvania College of Technology
- Alyssa Rohr, 34, Product Manager, Teknor Apex Co.
- Corey Ryan, 34, Director of Business Development, TMF Plastic Solutions LLC
- Thomas Schoen, 31, President, Aroplax Corp
- Elayna Simmons, 27, Technical Specialist, Baerlocher USA
- Tom Smolenski, 33, President, Steinwall Inc.
- Meghan Staats, 27, Maintenance Engineer, Saudi Basic Industries Corp.
- John Urbaitis, 30, Senior Business Analyst, M. Holland Co.
- Aniket Vyas, 35, Principal Scientist/Engineer, Berry Global Group Inc.
- Carolyn Young, 28, Sales and Marketing Coordinator, iD Additives Inc.
- Rhauan Young, 32, Product Sales Director, Wipes, Berry Global Group Inc.
- Bowen Zhang, 29, Process Development Engineer, Gates Corp.
- Lanhe Zhang, 34, Research Scientist, Dow Inc.