Nippon Steel Corporation (“Nippon Steel”) has begun the commercial production of chromate-free tinplate*. Tinplate is mainly used as a material for containers such as food and beverage packaging cans, as well as general cans. It is an environmentally friendly material...
thyssenkrupp Rasselstein GmbH reports that it welcomes the decision of the EU Commission to temporarily approve the use of chromium trioxide for the production of rasselstein® packaging steel. Upon publication in the EU Official Journal of 10/21/2020, the company’s...
thyssenkrupp has approved the investment funds to build a new, state-of-the-art coating line for packaging steel at its Andernach site. As well as meeting the technical requirements for a new process for the production of chromium-coated packaging steel, this will...
Legislative pressures have led to the mature dominant chromium‐coated steel (ECCS) substrate and epoxy phenolic lacquer replacement in Europe. An investigation was carried out to examine the interaction between a steel surface engineered with a novel, developmental...
A novel chrome-free Ti–P composite film was prepared by casting a mixed solution containing titanium and phosphorus species, which is able to seal the pores on the tinplate surface. The obtained film was characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy...
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