Choosing tin means choosing an environmentally-friendly, 100% sustainable packaging for your product.

Steel-the 100% Sustainable Packaging Choice

Approximately 95% of water used in the steel industry is cleaned, cooled and returned to source. Most of the loss is due to evaporation. Water returned to returned to rivers and other sources is often cleaner than when extracted.

The energy used to produce a ton of steel has been reduced by 60% in the last 50 years. Gases produced in the steelmaking process are recycled into the system to heat up the furnace, reducing the need for additional energy.

The recovery and used of steel industry by-products has reached a worldwide material efficiency rate of 96%.

Steel is the main material used in delivering renewable energy: solar, tidal and wind.

Why Choose Steel Packaging?

Because of their beauty and reusability, tins are collected, refilled and displayed in homes and establishments. They are a part of the gift and require no secondary packaging. If a tin ever does make it to a landfill, it can be separated by a magnet. The life cycle of a steel package is infinite and with out loss of quality or durability.

Other packaging materials may claim recyclability, but there is just a temporary life cycle extension with a second life eventually ending in a landfill.

Metal Recycles Forever

This video by the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association shows how metal is a permanently available resource, coming back again and again in many different guises, with no less of quality.

Life Cycle of Steel

• Scrap steel is bundled and taken to a recycling center.
• It is melted down and the impurities are burned off.
• If the steel is destined to become a can again, instead of one of the many other uses for steel, molten steel is poured and rolled into a thin sheet.
• It is coated with tin to retard rust and rolled into a coil.
• The coil is cut into sheets of steel and the process of can making begins again.

Easy Separation By Magnet

With sorting and separation being the biggest challenges for recyclers dealing with plastics and other items in the waste stream, products made of steel are the grand champions of efficient and inexpensive recycling. The magnetic properties of steel provides for easy separation from other waste. No other metal packaging material can make that claim.

Moreover, the quality of items made with recycled steel is the same as those made with new. Every can contains at least 25% recycled steel and up to 60%.