Good morning! Doesn't everyone want to save energy? Wouldn't it be even better if you could get help paying for improvements? In today's PMM Insight podcast, Matt Flanigan of APenergy talks about how you can do both.

Michael Machuca of Emerson takes a look at the pyrolysis process for plastic recycling, and the role of instrumentation, automation and data collection.

We have reports on new equipment from Hasco and Evosys. In the news, SPE is launching a parts competition for injection molding; and our colleagues at Control Design have figures on robot sales for the first half of 2024 from the Association for Advancing Automation.

Lynne Sherwin, managing editor