What are tin cans made of?
Tin cans take tinplate, lacquer and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 38 made things on the way to 21 raw materials.
How tin cans are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 21 raw materials
- Water through ink
- Tin ore through tinplate, tin
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Limestone through tinplate, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through tinplate, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through tinplate, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through ink, ethanol, ethylene
- Coal through tinplate, tin, coke
- Rock salt through ink, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Quartz through tinplate, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through tinplate, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 35 things
Metals 7
Chemicals and fuels 22
EthanolCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorinePropaneNaphthaHydrogenBenzeneCharcoalToluene