2021 Rising Stars: Colleen Lavelle
Technical Service and Development Engineer, M. Holland Co.
Colleen Lavelle graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics. Her first job in the plastics industry was a lab engineer internship at T&T Marketing, a distributor of polymer resins and compounds to the wire and cable market, where she worked on a product development project. I was initially drawn to the internship because of the hands-on research and development work I d get to partake in. I enjoyed working with plastics materials because they are very versatile and extremely functional across many industries, she said. I also enjoyed the challenge of creating a product that balanced properties in a new way to offer tangible benefits.