DETROIT, Mich,-- Potential fuel applications include the tank cap, filler neck components, check valve, filter housing, tube bundle clips, fuel line connectors and the fuel rail.

DuPont is expanding its materials and technology offering for automotive fuel systems with new DuPont™ Zytel® CDV conductive nylons and with a new DuPont™ Delrin® acetal resin that stands up in hot diesel fuel. The new materials made their debut at the SAE World Congress.

"Armed with new DuPont conductive materials, know-how and experience in fuel systems, we can give design engineers powerful tools for meeting both functional and static dissipation requirements," said Brian Fish, marketing manager for DuPont™ Zytel® CDV. "Here at DuPont, we draw on a variety of nylon base polymers, modification technologies, reinforcements, fillers and other ingredients to meet customer needs."

DuPont™ Zytel® CDV nylons can make a wide variety of static-dissipating functional parts for automotive fuel systems and other uses. Potential fuel applications include the tank cap, filler neck components, check valve, filter housing, tube bundle clips, fuel line connectors and the fuel rail. Other automotive applications include parts for electrical and electronically controlled devices subject to static buildup – power steering, for example.

Powder-coated parts for automotive and other industrial products are another potential application for Zytel® CDV. In this case, the inherently conductive resin can save the substantial cost of applying a conductive primer to molded parts.

Zytel® CDV can also play a valuable role in the dissipation of static charges in business machines, computer peripherals, electronic devices, industrial machinery, medical equipment and other products.

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