Tin plate is steel coated with a very thin layer of tin. Tin plate and tin free steel are used for packaging food products, such as fruits, vegetables, soup, tuna, and pet foods. Western canners and food processors use more than 600,000 tons of tin plate annually. USS-POSCO is the West's only tin plate producer, maintaining the leadership position held by the plant since the 1920s.

Drawability, as well as exceptional gauge control, shape and surface, make the tin mill products of USS-POSCO the preferred choice. Welded can makers are able to increase production throughput because the level of quality they receive throughout the length of the coil is consistent and unwavering. There is minimal waste, fewer blemishes, fewer rejects, and higher production efficiency.

Our new technology makes us the leader in the sophisticated and critically sensitive applications of drawn and iron cans, and draw-redraw cans. Formability is the property most desired by our customers and is one of USS-POSCO’s greatest strengths. Strict gauge control prevents jamming and material related line-stops that are debilitating for can-making facilities with sensitive dies. Machines are capable of producing many more acceptable and quality units per minute.