Exempel på tinplate

• Other factors which curtailed the opportunity for profits included many years of low sardine catches and wartime scarcities of other raw materials such as tinplate and oil.

• First, there is the class of raw materials like fuel, oil, tinplate and prime essentials.

• The conversion value, the total value of a tin of biscuits to the value of the amount of tinplate in that tin is twenty-one times.

• In the hardware and hollow-ware group of industries, which includes stoves, grates, bedsteads, tinplate goods, etc.

• Overshadowing all other problems—with regard to coal, building and industry generally—there is the cloud which has arisen in connection with the steel and tinplate trade.

• Let me give some more to show in detail how this rather ridiculed export of tinplate is used to bring food here.

• The steel employer sells the tin-plate bar by weight, and you have to work the tinplate bars out at a certain weight per foot.

• He said that the increase in tinplate prices would increase the price of canned food by ½p per tin.

• I am not talking about raw tin, but about tinplate; that is, about what is put round so-called tin cans.

• Without sulphuric acid we cannot have tinplate because unless sheet steel is dipped in sulphuric acid it cannot be coated with tin.

• In the past eighteen months, five tinplate and steel mills have closed down there, involving 1,700 people.

• Those materials are tinplate, horticultural cardboard used for making nonreturnable containers, and lids for returnable containers, lead foil and waxed paper.

• But perhaps the most vital and enterprising elements in the tinplate industry are the independent firms.

• In addition, other countries that were previous importers of tinplate produce at least part of their own needs.

• Let us ensure that the processing industry does not come to a standstill simply because we have exported tinplate.