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Do canned tin, covered in shiny silver, is very beautiful. This is because the dip of the light of tin, tin gown to wear in the metal outside, people called this metal as a “tin”. About the origins of the “tin” the old name, is said to be the past, foreign businessmen from China’s Tibet Ali horses mouth input, this metal; that due to our past to do with this metal kerosene lamps, the lamp, shaped like a horse mouth, so hereinafter referred to as “tin”. Tin in the world annual production of almost 30% is used to make tinplate.

Tin and iron, a very good relationship. Tinplate surface, merely coated with a thin layer of tin, but it is tightly attached to the metal on. Even when heated, tin rusted tin dioxide, and oxygen combine to form this layer of oxide film is still closely follows the surface of the tin to protect the inside of tin is no longer rusty. , Tin became a metal guard, cut off from the iron and oxygen, moisture, tinplate life much longer than common iron.

Manufacture of a tinplate not take the number of tin, only 11.2 grams of tin per square meter; as a box of paints, you can draw on dozens of hundreds of paintings, one ton of tin, actually covering over 80,000 square meters metal. Therefore, the tin is cheaper.

However, the use of tin, you can be careful, Do outside of the tin layer misfortune to scratch! If the misfortune to scratch, and then a damp, the entire metal will quickly rot.

Bloomberg reported that aluminum coil demand in Japan, Asia’s largest importer may be flat this year failing to recover from the lowest level since 2009, as the end of a government subsidy will hurt auto sales.

Mr Shunichi Shiraishi executive officer for the aluminum sector who is also the chairman of the Japan Aluminium Association said that demand will probably stay weak after dropping to 2 million metric tons last fiscal year. In March, the group forecast demand growth of 2.8% for this fiscal year.

According to the association, shipments to domestic and overseas markets of rolled- aluminum products expanded 1.1% in the first 4 months as demand from the auto industry was offset by a contraction in sales to electronics makers. Panasonic Corporation and Sony Corporation are losing customers amid the yen’s appreciation. The LMEX index lost 2.9% this year, while aluminum has dropped 2.2%.

Mr Shiraishi said that “We are struggling to achieve our earnings target for this fiscal year. The company forecast a gain JPY 6 billion in operating profit from aluminum sales of JPY 105 billion. Our industry, as a whole, is in a tough situation.”

Japan’s exports of aluminum coil products dropped 5.4% in the first 4 months this year as the European crisis curbed shipments of electronics products from China, reducing demand for Japanese components made from the light metal.

Mr Takaki Shigemoto an analyst at research company JSC Corporation said that “Japanese demand may not grow as much as forecast because of the deepening debt crisis in Europe and a slowdown in China’s economy. When the government’s rebuilding stimulus loses effect later this year manufacturing activity may slow down, curbing consumption.”

A deteriorating demand outlook, suppressed market sentiment in Europe and consumption decline in China has led the domestic aluminium coil industry to demand for upping the import duty on aluminium to 7.5 per cent and imposition 2 per cent customs duty on aluminium scrap to insulate themselves from adverse market conditions.

Already reeling under overcapacity, high input costs and rising inventories, the aluminium coil producers led by public sector Nalco have recently told mines secretary Vishwapati Trivedi that unless the euro zone crisis is resolved and Chinese consumption resumes, any steady upward movement in aluminium price is unlikely.

Nalco CMD B L Bagra said in a communication to Trivedi that before March 2002, the customs duty on aluminium metal was 25 per cent and was reduced gradually to 5 per cent ad valorem for unwrought aluminium coil in January 2007 and has been held at that level since then.

Bagra said that the industry is suffering high input costs with electricity accounting for around 40 per cent.

Substantial increase in coal prices coupled with changes made by the coal companies in their pricing system besides low availability of linkage has put additional cost pressure on the domestic aluminium producers.

Bagra said further that Indian smelters would be impacted by low cost aluminium coil from gas-based smelters in west Asia where production capacity has increased due to cheap gas available in the region.

Making a case for leving customs duty on scrap, Bagra said that as imports of aluminium scrap currently attract zero customs duty, it would adversely impact the domestic industry especially the primary producers.

The mines ministry, however, believes that global aluminum demand is expected to reach 48.2 Million Tonne (MT) in 2012, up 7 per cent fuelled mainly by demand from China and India. With European demand projected to fall, the ministry expects the global demand to balance in the current fiscal.

Mirach Metallurgy Co.,Limited will hold a meeting with representatives from VILLALBA on May 14, at Beijing, the capital of China with the main topic of cooperation on Galvalume, etc.

We wish the discussion will successful.