What are shipping containers made of?
Shipping containers take steel, sheet steel, plywood, vulcanized rubber and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 42 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Timber through plywood
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Water through paint
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Crude oil through vulcanized rubber, carbon black
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
Made along the way: 37 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 25
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonAdhesiveCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentPropaneSulfuric acidParaffin waxNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyreneChlorinePropyleneAmmoniaMethanolCharcoalPhenolAcetoneCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenToluene