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Environmental problems with steel tanks:
The fiberglass underground storage tank owes its very existence to the shortcomings of steel tanks – and their resulting environmental problems.
In the early 1960s, the American Petroleum Institute challenged us (we were then known as the Special Products Division of Owens-Corning) to develop a rustproof underground storage tank that would be safe and strong enough to satisfy the petroleum industry’s most stringent long-term storage demands.