Special issue editorial: Selected contributions from foundations of computer aided process design (FOCAPD) 2024

This short editorial discusses a recent special virtual issue containing papers invited from the best contributions to the FOCAPD 2024 conference. We provide a brief description of each paper and its main contributions to the field. We observe that certain research topics are trending in the field, particularly plastic recycling processes, integrating sustainability metrics and circular economy concepts into process and product design, and process design under uncertainty approaches.