Noteworthy

Beaumont Blood Drive On Thursday, May 21st, CDI Engineering Solutions’ Beaumont office partnered with LifeShare Blood Centers, a blood bank serving Louisiana, East Texas, and Arkansas, to help with the national blood shortage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the various stay-at-home orders and the need to social distance, blood banks have seen donations drop [...]Read More

Alcoa Substation Upgrade, Messena, NY Since August of 2019, CDI Engineering Solutions has been supporting Alcoa’s Power Generation, Inc. (APGI) subsidiary at their Knoxville, TN, and Massena, NY, facilities. Aluminum smelting requires huge amounts of electricity and Alcoa has a whole subsidiary company focused on power generation to meet its needs, with interests in three [...]Read More

CDI Engineering Solutions has teamed with Louisiana State University (LSU) to find better solutions for air filtration cartridges in commercial respirators/ventilators. Filter cartridges are required in both the intake and exhaust air systems of respirators. Most are prepackaged disposable filters produced by a very limited number of firms in Asia. Because of the sharp increase [...]Read More

CDI Technical Resourcing focuses on contingent workforce placement, complex permanent placement, and enterprise-wide staffing cycle programs for engineering and related professional skill sets for the oil, gas, and chemical industry. With our experience providing turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction management services, CDI may have proven employees available for immediate assignment, and if not, CDI’s recruiters [...]Read More

Barry Thrasher, Mechanical Department Manager, and Kyle Wooster, Mechanical Engineer, were invited by LSU to deliver three lectures to LSU students in the Advanced Topics / Mechanical Engineering course (ME4933 Petro-Chemical Process Equipment) during the week of March 9th. This course was designed specifically to prepare mechanical engineering graduates for jobs in the petrochemical industry, [...]Read More

Erik Hansen and his wife Clarissa Hansen have been busy making face masks in their spare time! Erik helped to cut up the vacuum bags for the filter portions. Clarissa then sewed over 300 masks that went out to local hospitals, clinics, law enforcement stations, and pharmacists, as well as to women who are close [...]Read More

If your company was pressed by President Trump's executive order invoking the Defense Production Act or if you volunteered to assist in the production of critical equipment or medical devices needed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, CDI Engineering Solutions is here to help. There are dwindling supplies of many items vital to the treatment of [...]Read More

A Distributed Control System (DCS) migration is a project where some or all of a plant’s automation control equipment is replaced while introducing new technologies, functions, and features that will improve plant operations. Is it time to Migrate Your Distributed Control System? Operating an old DCS increases the risk of system failures, part availability, and [...]Read More

Through our team’s initiative, innovation, and experience, we provided DOW Chemical with an alternative with a better end product, new and higher capacity, where the safety controls, production, and operations are given back to the client. All of this while controlling schedule and costs. This project is a great example of collaboration and teamwork across [...]Read More

CDI can support required Arc Flash safety programs by surveying equipment on site, performing required calculations nationally and producing new Arc Flash coordination reports and labels, to update the hazard calculation classification per the site conditions and latest code requirements. ARC FLASH HAZARDS – OVERVIEW NFPA 70E – 2018 NFPA 70E 130.5(2) states — “An [...]Read More