Rather than invest in costly extrusion blow molding machinery dedicated to the production of plastic fuel tanks, Japan's Yachiyo Industry (Sayama) has developed an innovative system that retrofits to ...

For some time, fuel tank manufacturers have come under increasing pressure from legislation, particularly in the US, to design and build tanks that can withstand higher impacts without leaking.

The new alliance was formed just a few weeks after automotive systems supplier Plastic Omnium (PO) informed Solvay, its 50:50 JV partner in the Inergy Automotive Systems business, that PO wants to ...

Fuel tanks don’t fail often, but when they do, repairs can be expensive and potentially dangerous. Damage can happen from collisions, water intrusion, poor manufacturing or even leaving a car unused ...

More and more, as I review new vehicles, and they need fuel, I open the gas tank flap all set to unscrew the gas cap, but there is not one there. There is a small trap door, that you can't push in ...