Mary Beth Hudson recalls it was a fifth-grade teacher who interested her in science.
Today, she’s the site manager for Wacker in Charleston, Tennessee, where the German company has already spent $2.5 billion on a polysilicon production facility and is building a $150 million expansion to make pyrogenic silica.
Hudson, 50, is helping pave the way for women in not just the manufacturing arena but in the chemical industry.
“No one told me I couldn’t do what I wanted to do,” she says.
The Bowling Green, Kentucky, native graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1989.