f ers of fiberglass tanks in Canada. The tanks have been replacing the older and less reliable steel tanks. The company tanks range in size from 2,500 litres to ,a whopping 100,000 litres. They are built to last in excess of 30 years. "You don't remove a fiberglass tank from the ground unless you're moving," Kanaya laughed. He said ZCL's underground tanks have to be 100 per cent reliable because the marketplace has zero tolerance for any kind of failure. Its customers include all the major oil companies like Shell, Esso, PetroCan, Sunoco, Canadian Tire and Irving. The company has also started targeting the smaller independent retailers - - what Kanaya terms the "mom-and-pop-type gas station" -- for its products. Not only are the company's tanks underneath service stations, they can also be found at bulk distribution facilities for gasoline, diesel and furnace oil. Over the past year, ZCL purchased four distribution companies specializing in petroleum equipment and industrial products. It was a 1 ,' , CO* have also boosted ZCL's sales worldwide. The company has total annual sales in excess of $60 million. In the past year, ZCL has increased production of its specialized underground tanks capable of separating oil and water at storm runoff locations; its clients include municipalities, major oil companies and transportation companies. The company is now developing and testing a new underground product. It's a self-contained sewage treatment plant for small communities. The system consists of biological treatment and disinfection within an underground storage tank. Kanaya said another major step "in the evolution of the company" came recently when the Belleville *Our future is in plant shipped 130 underground fuel other fiberglassstorage tanks to the related products* Phillipines. It's the first major international order filled by major move for ZCL, ZCL and he expects countless more tanks to be headKanaya acknowledged. "It now allows us to pro- ed there over the ensuing vide the entire under- years. Greg Thiele said the ground fuel handling system, instead of just the company's growing sucstorage tank," he said. "As cess wouldn't be possible a result of having access to without its local work the entire underground force. "ZCL Belleville has one system, we're now able to offer the enhanced warran- of the most skilled and ty package to the entire experienced work forces in the fiberglass industry in market." He explained ZCL will North America," said the provide the environmental national production manpollution liability insur- ager for its three manufacplants. "And ance "which is included in turing the purchase of the sys- because of that, we have a solid base of experience to tem." The purchase of the four grow our company even distribution companies further." o- y