Let us ensure that the processing industry does not come to a standstill simply because we have exported tinplate.
In addition, other countries that were previous importers of tinplate produce at least part of their own needs.
But perhaps the most vital and enterprising elements in the tinplate industry are the independent firms.
Those materials are tinplate, horticultural cardboard used for making nonreturnable containers, and lids for returnable containers, lead foil and waxed paper.
In the past eighteen months, five tinplate and steel mills have closed down there, involving 1,700 people.
Without sulphuric acid we cannot have tinplate because unless sheet steel is dipped in sulphuric acid it cannot be coated with tin.
I am not talking about raw tin, but about tinplate; that is, about what is put round so-called tin cans.
He said that the increase in tinplate prices would increase the price of canned food by ½p per tin.
