2021 Rising Stars: Brant Wunderlich
Market Manager, Caps & Closures and Thin-Wall Injection Molding, Nova Chemicals Corp.
Plastics had always been present in Brant Wunderlich s life. His father, Dave, has worked at Calgary, Alberta-based polyethylene maker Nova Chemicals Corp. since 1988, where he works as a research technologist in the Center for Applied Research. His father put the idea into Wunderlich s head to consider the industry and was eventually fortunate to sit down with Kathleen Donnelly, the team leader of computational fluid dynamics at Nova.
While there was not an immediate opening available, Wunderlich joined a few months later in technical service and application development for the caps and closures team. He became market manager for caps and closures and thin-wall injection molding in March 2020.