Russia produces enough tinplate for packaging
In Russia, a sufficient amount of tinplate was produced, which was used in particular for tin containers and lids. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
The Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is operating at 100% capacity utilization, which in 2021 recorded 175,000 tons of tinplate (7,000 tons more than last year).
Earlier, RBC reported that State Duma deputy from the Kurgan region, member of the committee on agrarian issues Sergei Lisovsky (United Russia) sent an appeal to the Deputy Prime Minister – Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov with the involvement of state support for the production of tin in Russia. Lisovsky said that tinplate was not produced in Russia until 2022 for the production of baby food in cans in the US Congress (Silgan, ThyssenKrupp and others), however, appointed the fifth package banned the import of tin enterprises into the country. So, if an alternative to the supply of raw materials is not found, a number of baby food manufacturers will use the services, the newspaper writes.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade noted that if a manufacturer of tin containers requires technical specifications, a specific coating or metal thickness, delivery is also available from the Miory Metal Rolling Plant in the Republic of Belarus and the detection of import volumes from China (24 thousand tons for the first half of 2022). Also, the production of tinplate comes from the company “Arselormittal Temirtau” in defense of Kazakhstan. LLC “Factory of Packaging Products TOKK” in Ramenskoye, which, according to its statement, buys raw materials in Serbia and Turkey.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade, in turn, explained that the consumption of this production is approximately 1.6 thousand tons of tin per month and at the moment
“There is no threat of shutting down the enterprise at the moment. At the same time, expanded volumes of the required mechanical characteristics can be created on the basis of rolled steel of domestic manufacturers at the Miory Metal Rolling Plant, whose capacity is currently significantly underutilized,” the ministry said.
They also noted that the Ministry of Industry and Trade will promptly work out such a proposal in case of interest from the Russian owners of tin containers.
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Source: TASS
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