Horizon Manufacturing Group LLC, a rotational molder in Lake Mills, Wis., plans to expand in 2024 up to 150,000 square feet to meet increasing customer demand. The expansion is in the design phase ...

Fuelled by the need to save weight and reduce evaporative emissions, a great deal of innovative design and materials work is going into vehicle fuel tank systems, writes Matthew Beecham. In the early ...

Inergy Automotive Systems, a subsidiary of Plastic Omnium, has invested $110 million into a new extrusion blow molding facility that will produce about 1.5 million plastic fuel tanks a year in the ...

Yapp Zoom Automotive Systems has opened a plastic fuel tank manufacturing factory at Ford’s new suppliers park near Chennai. The automaker recently ramped up car and engine production capacity to ...

Plastic fuel tanks are light in weight and rustproof, and have good design flexibility. For those currently in use, however, which are made of mono-layer high-density polyethylene, fuel permeability ...

For several years the only way to meet Partial Zero Emission Standards (PZEV) was with a steel gas tank having few holes to be sealed. But plastic tanks are about 30% lighter, on average, and present ...

A tank made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic was tested at the German Aerospace Center. Image: MT Aerospace With the support of the European Space Agency, German aerospace company MT Aerospace has ...

I don’t think car enthusiasts dedicate much brain power to the thought of fuel tanks. They do the boring job of holding fuel, but it’s a critical safety device as well as the only reason we can have ...

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 ...

This is in response to an Aug. 13 report on www.autonews.com from the Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, Mich., "TI's CEO says plastic can replace more steel parts." Evidence suggests that ...