It wasn’t all that long ago when owning a car was a real hands-on experience. Carburetors, points and condensers, spark plugs that only lasted a few thousand miles, single-weight oil and ...

A great deal of innovative design and materials work is going into vehicle fuel tank systems. It is area that is coming under increasing pressure from legislation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Before 1990, most car gas tanks were made of steel. By 1996 plastic had replaced steel in one out of four fuel tanks manufactured in North America. Last year plastic gas tanks had taken over an ...

AUBURN HILLS, MICH. — All roads lead to California — at least when it comes to the creation of a complex plastic fuel tank system called the Tank Advanced Process Technology. In the 1990s, the Golden ...

Fuel tanks and fuel systems will fuel the next round in the market war over the physical makeup of new vehicles on the road. Environmentally, plastic has the early upper hand when it comes to ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 98, Section 5: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING (1989), pp. 377-382 (6 pages) Automobiles from all parts of the world are now being built with plastic fuel tanks made from ...

The company's current turnover in India stands at approximately 200 million euros, contributing to the group's overall 11-billion-euro revenue. Favre acknowledged the company's historical association ...

French injection molder Plastic Omnium has recently won a significant order from a German automotive company for the development of 350-bar hydrogen tanks, the company has announced. The contract, the ...

Recycling technology provider offers its plastic scrap density separator tanks in three sizes. In a Herbold Meckesheim tank, higher density plastics like polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyvinyl ...