What is tinplate made of?
Tinplate takes steel and tin directly. Trace them back and you pass 14 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
How tinplate is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Tin ore through tin
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Water through steel, quicklime
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Coal through tin, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through steel, steel scrap, propane
- Sulfur through steel, manganese, sulfuric acid