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Transitioning from Academia to the Engineering Workforce

Moving from engineering student to engineering employee can be a challenge, but there are strategies to help facilitate the transition New college graduates provide a continued source of engineering talent to companies, government agencies and other organizations. However, integrating new…

Preserving federal statistics

Since its introduction in 1963, the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index® (CEPCI) has been tracking changes to construction costs for chemical manufacturing and related process facilities. The data from which the CEPCI is calculated come from a carefully selected and…

Accelerating Speed to Market and Sustainability Outcomes Using Digital Twins

An AI-driven digital twin has fundamentally altered the way new products are developed in the automotive sector Your product might be a game changer. But if it takes two years longer than your competitors to bring it to market, that’s…

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Low-capital-cost reactor could bring SAF closer to cost parity with fossil jet fuel

A unique reactor design allows the conversion of raw biogas (methane and carbon dioxide) into synthesis gas (syngas; hydrogen and carbon monoxide) at capital costs 100 times lower than those for gas-fired reformer reactors. Developed by e-fuels startup company Circularity…

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Business News: October 2025

Plant Watch Teijin Frontier to expand production of polyester filament yarn in Thailand September 16, 2025 — Teijin Frontier Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.teijin-frontier.com) will expand production capacity for high-tenacity recycled polyester filament yarn used in industrial applications, such as tire…

October 2025 Editorial Roundup Video

Watch the Chemical Engineering editorial staff discuss what to expect from the October issue https://youtu.be/oPBwls6CSt0

Energy Vault, PG&E complete world’s first ultra-long-duration hybrid battery +hydrogen energy-storage microgrid

Energy Vault Holdings Inc., a leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), today announced the successful completion and commercial operation of the Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC),…

MilliporeSigma opens filtration manufacturing facility in Ireland

MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.), the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, announces the opening of a €150 million filtration manufacturing facility in Blarney Business Park, Cork, Ireland. The site is…

Porsche, BASF and BEST complete chemical recycling pilot project

Porsche AG and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), in collaboration with technology partner BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH, have successfully completed a pilot project on recycling mixed waste from end-of-life vehicles. The pilot project demonstrates the recyclability of high-performance…

X-ELIO starts up renewable-power plant to support BASF Freeport operations

X-ELIO (Madrid, Spain) launched operations at its Liberty Energy Project in Dayton, Texas. The Liberty project, which combines 72 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity with an additional 60 MW of battery storage capacity, is X-ELIO's first combined solar PV…