Industries Collection Reference

Last Updated: August 12, 2026 | Audience: Everyone

What This Collection Is (and Is Not)

The Industries collection is a lightweight reference list of CAS industry verticals. It is not where industry page content lives.

Industry content lives in static pages under /industries/. Each Industries CMS item is a pointer to one of those pages, so that industry cards, filters, and listing modules elsewhere on the site can be CMS-driven instead of hand-maintained in eight places.

There are 8 items, currently all in draft, matching the 8 live industry pages.

Two Paths, Easy to Confuse

• /industries/{page} — the real, public industry landing pages. Static pages. This is where visitors go and what you link to.
• /industry/{slug} — the Industries collection template. Singular, and it exists only because Webflow requires a template page for every collection. Do not link to it.

The 8 Industries

Each corresponds to a live static page:

• Drug Discovery — /industries/drug-discovery
• Agriculture — /industries/agriculture
• Batteries — /industries/batteries
• Sustainability — /industries/sustainability
• Coatings & Inks — /industries/coatings-and-inks
• Plastics and polymers — /industries/plastics-and-polymers
• Electronics and Materials — /industries/electronics-and-materials
• Business of Science — /industries/business-of-science

Drug Discovery is the deepest of these, with a nested challenges section at /industries/drug-discovery/challenges holding expert interview pages.

Fields

• Name — The industry label as it should appear on cards and in filters. Match the wording on the static page exactly; a mismatch between the card and the page it links to reads as a mistake.
• Slug — Keep it identical to the static page's path segment. It is not used for a public URL, but keeping them aligned makes the relationship obvious to the next person.
• Description (Plain Text) — Short summary of the industry, used on cards and listing modules. Keep these roughly the same length across all eight; cards in a grid look broken when one description is three times longer than its neighbours.
• Industry Page Link (Link) — The URL of the industry's static landing page under /industries. This is the field that makes the item useful. An item without it is a label that goes nowhere.

Adding an Industry

1. The static page comes first. A CMS item pointing at a page that does not exist yet will render a dead card if someone publishes it.
2. Create the item with Name, Slug, and Description.
3. Set Industry Page Link to the full published URL of the static page.
4. Leave it in draft until the static page is live.
5. Publish the item, then check any industry card grid on the site to confirm the new card renders and links correctly.

Open Items

• All 8 items are still in draft, so nothing driven by this collection is rendering yet.
• The site overview and older docs describe only two industry pages, Drug Discovery and Agriculture. Six more have shipped since. If you find another doc making that claim, it needs updating.

Common Mistakes

• Linking to /industry/{slug}. Wrong path. Public industry pages are at /industries/{page}.
• Leaving Industry Page Link empty. The item does nothing without it.
• Writing industry page copy into the Description field. It is a card summary, not page content.
• Creating the CMS item before the static page exists. Static page first, always.