OREANDA-NEWS. December 30, 2011. Recently Baosteel Metal Baosteel Packaging Company Foshan Tinplate Printing Company started business officially. By far, Baosteel Packaging Company has possessed 3 tinplate printing enterprises in Shanghai, Beijing and Foshan, forming an annual tinplate printing capacity of 100 million sheets and 130,000t and becoming the largest specialized tinplate printing company in China at present.

South China is one of the areas that concentrates the most enterprises of the most advanced level in domestic tinplate and can-making industry, which consumes half of the total consumption of tinplates for can-making in China, and is also the largest regional market of Baosteel's tin plates. To satisfy the needs of the rapid developments of Baosteel's downstream tinplate users, Baosteel Packaging Company decided to further strengthen the cooperation with ORG Packaging at the end of 2009, and set up Foshan tinplate printing company in Guangdong to provide professional service for the end-users in South China such as Red bull.

Foshan tinplate printing project started construction in March this year. With the joint efforts of Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group, MCC 13 and Baosteel Packaging Company, the project was put into trial production in August and reached the monthly targeted output in October. Same as Shanghai tinplate printing and Beijing tinplate printing, Foshan tinplate printed imported a complete set of state-of-the-art 6-color printing equipment from Germany, moreover, the company is also equipped with 3 coating lines, the designed annual capacity is up to 32,100t. By the end of November, Foshan Tinplate Printing Company had supplied 8000t of color printed coats to ORG and Want Want Group, effectively satisfying the customer's demands.

In the commencing ceremony, Baosteel Packaging Company signed the new round strategic cooperation agreement with ORG. The tinplate printing business unit of Baosteel Metal will commit itself to the developments in tinplate printing field, and provide professional services of shearing, printing and coating, logistics and distribution to 3-piece can-making enterprises.