Metal Cans—a Versatile and Modern Packaging.
With a world-wide annual consumption exceeding 100 billion pieces, tinplate cans represent probably the universally best available and proven packaging material.
Metal cans are produced in a broad variety of shapes and sizes and are used for every imaginable kind of food and beverage. Due to the outstanding properties of metal packaging, industrial and technical goods such as lubricants, paint, lacquer or aerosols are often packaged in cans, pails, drums or irregularly shaped containers as well. Although the production process is identical to food and beverage cans, the forming, shaping, endmaking and testing of industrial packaging requires a specialized know-how.