Top international experts present their findings here on new commercial pillared clays and the latest work in industrial microporous solids. Culled from recent investigations, some presented at the symposium on Advances in Zeolites and Pillared Clays Synthesis sponsored by the American Chemical Society, these papers include previously unpublished reports on commercial materials from major corporations and research institutes. They offer how to information on zeolite synthesis, as well as a survey of advances in novel zeolites.