Tinplate Manufacturers in Europe

Willy Cohn and Robert Baruch established Roba Metallurgische Handelsmaatschappij in Amsterdam in 1937. The business was engaged in scrap trading and processing. Today, Roba Metals takes pride in its ISO 9001:2015-certified steel and tinplate products. Their business has expanded worldwide, with South Korea as its latest addition.

Their tinplates include ETP SR, ETP DR, TFS-SR, and TFS DR. They have the same thickness of 0.14 to 0.50mm, a width of 600 to 980 mm, and a length of 600 to 1050 mm. It comes in various tempers of T1–T5 and DR7–DR9 with CA–BA annealing.

They are available in coatings D2.8/8.4–8.4/11.2, E 50/50–150/150, D 50/150–150/50, and E1.1/1.1–11.2/11.2.

thyssenkrupp Steel is a premier supplier of high-grade flat steel, including tinplate products, in Europe. This German company has a yearly crude steel production of 11 million metric tons. This makes thyssenkrupp Steel the largest manufacturer of flat steel in Germany.

The tinplate thickness ranges are 0.100 to 0.109, 0.110 to 0.119, 0.120 to 0.129, 0.130 to 0.139, 0.140 to 0.149, 0.150 to 0.179, 0.180 to 0.199, and 0.200 to 0.499mm. The width ranges are 600 to 900, 600 to 1000, 600 to 1050, 600 to 1090, 600 to 1170, and 600 to 220 mm.

The tinplates are available in surface finishes of bright, fine stone, stone, silver matte, and matte.

Nicomet Tinplate and Steel is a steel supplier established by the first generation of J.W. Slotboom in 1968. The company is a supplier, stockholder, and trader of secondary tin mill products. These include tin-free steel, blackplate, and electrolytic tinplate.

Nicomet ensures that they have a stock supply of secondary tinplate sheets and coils for various applications, including bright tinplate and DWI/matt tinplate coils. These products are available in various thicknesses, from 0.13 to 0.35 mm. The cold-rolled steel is coated with tin through an electrolytic process.

They are excellent materials for food cans, cooking oil cans, aerosol cans, paint cans, pails, buckets, liquid containers, and crown corks.

Koddaert is a family business that spans seven decades. From its humble beginnings, Koddaert has flourished and become one of Europe’s leading suppliers of second-choice steel tubes. It has become a global specialist in prime and non-prime steel products, including tinplates.

Koddaert is capable of supplying over 10,000 metric tons of steel products to customers in Europe and worldwide. Their warehouse has a large stock of tinplate coils, sheets, and strips. Their electrolytic tinplates are in demand due to their high corrosion resistance, which makes them a superior packaging material.

The electrolytic tinplate (ETP) is cut to length according to customer specifications. They come in over-rolling and prime quality.

Established in 1922, Paul Pinsel GmbH & Co. is a leading steel product specialist in Germany. This family business has gone worldwide through its global service center, which specializes in tinplate strips, coils, and sheets. They have a huge warehouse that can accommodate steel products from leading manufacturers.

Both painted tinplate and tinplate sheets come in grades TS230 to TH650. The tinplate sheets have a thickness of 0.10 to 1.00 and are available in various widths. The tinplate has a thickness of 0.10 to 1.00 mm and a width of 8 to 1210mm. The painted tinplate has a thickness of 0.10 to 0.60mm and widths of 8 to 1210mm.

Goldium Steel is a steel product service provider in Spain. It boasts of its trading expertise in ECCS and tinplates. Their warehouses in Barcelona are loaded with assorted tinplates from leading tinplate manufacturers in Europe and other continents.

GS takes pride in their tinplate and tin-free steel, which are made of low-carbon steel. These products have a coating of tin in between the layers to protect them from corrosion. The ETP and tinplates consist of various grades, such as TS230, TS245, TS260, TS275, TS290, TS550, TH415, TH435, TH520, TH550, TH580, and TH620.

These grades have corresponding tensile strengths of 325, 340, 360, 375, 390, 575, 435, 460, 540, 570, 590, and 625.

Tata Steel Europe began its operation in India as Corus in 1907. Tata Steel acquired the company in 2007 and renamed it Tata Steel in 2010. Corus was a merger of Koninklijke Hoogovens and British Steel. The merger makes Tata Steel visible in Asia and Europe.

Tata Steel is proud of its wide array of packaging steel products like tinplates and DWI cans. Their tinplate can measure up to 1200mm for operational flexibility. These tinplates are customizable according to your specifications.

The company supplies double- and single-reduced steel grades with various thicknesses, coating weights, and surface finishes. Their flow-brightened tinplate has a glossy, bright look with excellent corrosion performance.

PrometalBakli was established by the Amariglio brothers in 1950. It operates as a metal trader, supplier, and tinplate solution provider. The company name was rebranded to Prometal SA when David Amariglio took over. Its main goal is to supply customers worldwide with premium steel sheets, iron bars, and tinplates.

PrometalBakli has partnered with leading European tinplate producers and Greek can makers to supply manufacturers and industry with electrolytic chromium-coated steel and electrolytic tinplate. The company offers customers EN10202/2001-certified prime, non-prime, and low-grade ETP and ECCS/TFS.

Their Tinplate Service Center in Greece offers customers tinplate solutions and products that come in various grades, surface finishes, and coatings.

Founded in 1983, COMESA is a metal product manufacturer in Spain. It engages in sorting, cutting, and trading cold-rolled products and tinplate. PrometalBakli Group owns the majority of the company’s shares. Its main office is in San Andress, with three production lines in Logroño.

COMESA partners with manufacturers to supply customers with UNE-EN-10202:2002-certified tinplate and TFS. Their program category allows them to outsource the raw material in reels and turn them into sheets according to customer specifications.

Their warehouse has a huge space for storing electrolytic tinplate, electrolytically chromed and oxychromed steel, and flat steel products. These materials pass through an upgrading stage before they are displayed for immediate sale.

S. Steel Košice is a Slovak Republic-based subsidiary of the US Steel Corporation. It has an annual tinplate production capacity of 4.5 million tons. Their factory inKošice is run by 9,000 workers. The company has a huge stock of black plate and electrolytic tin plate.

Their single-reduced tinplate consists of grades TH370, TH415, TH435, and TH460N. They have the same thickness of 0.180 to 0.400mm. TH370, TH415, and TH435 have the same width of 720 to 1000 mm, while TH460N has a width of 790 to 995mm.

The double-reduced tinplate consists of grades TH520, TH550, TH580, TH620, TH550M, TH580M, TH620M, TH550N, TH550D, and TH580D. TH620D, TH580N, and TH620N.

Yolande De Groote and Michael Bosschaerts were responsible for building Heboss International N.V. They established it in 1992 with the main goal of exporting and importing steel products. Heboss partners with tin mill manufacturers and can makers. They supply the materials to food and hygienic manufacturing companies.

Heboss boasts of its tin mill steel products, such as black plate, electrolytic tin plate (ETP), misprints, tin-free steel (TFS), electrolytic chromium-coated steel (ECCS), and lacquered sheets. These raw materials come in coils, discs, sheets, strips, circles, and cuttings.

These materials are excellent for packaging and canning. They are available in various dimensions, surface finishes, and coatings. They are available for customization according to customer requirements.