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Packaging material
Tinplate is found everywhere where products need to be packaged. Whether it’s a food or a beverage can, a paint container, battery shell, or a closure for a glass bottle: tinplate protects the contents from damage, from heat and light, and it doesn’t break.
Tinplate is thin steel, or to be more precise: a steel sheet with a thickness of 0.11 to 0.49 millimetres. It owes its name to a thin coating of tin that protects the material against corrosion. Thanks to its excellent shaping qualities, unique packaging can be develop from tinplate. The high-end printability offers excellent design possibilities.
Constant development
The thickness of tinplate can walls has continually been reduced over the past 50 years. In 1953, an 0,33 Liter can weighed 83 g while today it only weighs 25 g with exactly the same height of 115.2 millimetres. Thus the material cost has been more than halved!
Tinplate also has an ecological advantage as well: it is easily separated from other packaging materials by magnet. Today with this method eight out of ten cans are recycled. For years now, the recycling rate of tinplate has been approximately 80 per cent.
Uses
The uses of tinplate packaging is divided into five major categories:
 Food cans
Beverage cans
Pet food
Closures
Chemical packaging
Within a sixth "miscellaneous" category, other usage possibilities include decorative boxes, baking tins, tin toys, metal signs, magnetic boards, garbage cans, lamps, metal cases and many others. Although the volume of consumption represented by this "miscellaneous" category is comparatively small, the segment is steadily growing. There really are no limits to creativity when it comes to making use of tinplate
You can find the detailed, proportional allocation of the individual market segments and further advantages and usage types of tinplate under Packaging and Market Data.
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