Perfect when your product needs the ability to be moderately bent or shaped in the manufacturing process. Safe for foodstuffs and beverages. Tin coating (tinplate) makes a beautiful metallic luster and offers excellent corrosion resistance. Less expensive, easier to solder to than stainless steel.
The most common alternative to tinplate for food contact applications. Lower brightness than tinplate. Both sides are laminated with PET or PP finish to prevent oxidation. Sulphur staining of the steel by foodstuffs (can not be custom (unlike tinplate). The mechanical properties match tinplates
Used for:
Food cans, containers, fixed ends for processed food cans, drawn re-drawn cans, beverage and spray cans, bottle crown caps, metal caps, candy tin