Metal as a packaging material
Material of lever lid tins
The lever lid tins offered by OÜ Müügipakend are made from tin-plated steel. This is a strong material that provides safe and reliable protection for the contents inside. Tin-plated steel used for manufacturing metal tins has been produced since the mid-16th century. Centuries ago, the same material was also used to manufacture cookware.
Metal pails or plastic buckets?
The first industrial liquid containers were made of wood. Later, metal barrels were developed. In the 1960s, plastic buckets entered the market. Plastic buckets are still an affordable, flexible, and in many cases sufficiently durable packaging solution today.
Plastic does not rust, but solvent-based substances cannot be packaged in plastic. Plastic also does not tolerate heat, and in the event of a fire, the packaging is destroyed quickly. By comparison, many metal packages can withstand temperatures of up to 1000°C.
Metal containers are more resistant to physical shocks than plastic buckets and are also compatible with solvents.
Environmental sustainability
Metal containers can be recycled repeatedly, 100%, without the recycled steel losing its properties. This allows metal containers to be recycled theoretically an unlimited number of times, making metal an environmentally friendly packaging material.
During the recycling process, metal (and metal containers) is melted down, meaning it does not require extensive cleaning beforehand. This makes metal recycling an efficient process.
Using recycled metal requires significantly less energy and produces much lower CO₂ emissions (approximately five times less) compared to using newly mined primary metal.
Metal containers are durable and visually appealing.
Metal allows the production of dozens of different pails, tins, and canisters, depending on the packaging purpose.