Business & Economics
Asset Information Lifecycle Management: The Digital Backbone of Trusted Operations, Compliance, & AI
This eBook explains how organizations can evolve from scattered, uncontrolled engineering information to a governed, connected, and AI-ready digital foundation. It introduces Asset Information Lifecycle Management (AILM) as the extension of engineering document control across the full asset lifecycle—keeping…
Bringing Order to Engineering Information & Capital Projects at Dow Chemicals
This customer story shares how Dow Chemical transformed fragmented engineering document practices into a scalable, global engineering document management foundation. Dow used a structured, requirements-driven approach to select and deploy Synergis Adept, balancing global standards with the flexibility needed…
Why Engineering Document Management Is the Foundation of Manufacturing Success
This playbook explores why engineering documents should be treated as critical business assets—and how poor document control can increase operational risk, rework, project delays, and compliance challenges. It shows how Engineering Document Management (EDM) creates a centralized source of…
Bookshelf: Recently published books for the chemical process industries (CPI)
The following first-edition books were recently published and may have relevance for CPI professionals: Process Control: Bringing Academia and Industry Together. Edited by Pawel Domanski, Elsevier Publishing, May 2026, 508 pages, $191.25. Wastewater Valorization: Turning Effluents into…
RTI International opens $14 million expansion of Pilot Xcelerator facility in N.C.
Moving a breakthrough technology from the laboratory to commercial deployment remains one of the biggest challenges facing energy and industrial innovators. To help close that gap, RTI International (Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.rti.org), an independent scientific research institute, today opened a…
Business News: September 2026
Plant Watch BioBTX breaks ground on commercial-scale waste-to-aromatics plant August 14, 2026 — BioBTX B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands; www.biobtx.com) is building the world’s first commercial-scale plant to convert mixed plastic waste into aromatic oil consisting of benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX).…
Business News: August 2026
Plant Watch Air Liquide to supply ultra-high-purity gases to semiconductor fab in Arizona July 16, 2026 — Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announced a new investment of over $160 million to build, own and operate a new large-scale production…
VOC Control: Solvent Recovery Versus Oxidation
Regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs) are commonly used for abatement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), but in some cases, solvent-recovery systems can realize significant economic and environmental benefits In the field of industrial air-pollution control, the regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) is…
Linde awarded contract to supply industrial gases to semiconductor-manufacturing complex in Arizona
Linde (Woking, U.K.; www.linde.com) today announced that it has been awarded a new long-term agreement to supply ultra-high-purity industrial gases to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers. The agreement will support the expansion of the customer’s semiconductor manufacturing…
INEOS takes delivery of module delayed by war in Iran
INEOS (London, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has taken delivery of the first of the last two modules, at the Port of Antwerp, to complete the Project ONE (project-one.ineos.com) cracker. The modules were built in Abu Dhabi, but their transport to Antwerp was…