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Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein
Wholly-owned subsidiary of Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe; operates the single largest electrolytic tinplate plant in the world at Andernach, Germany (~1.5 million tonnes/year capacity). Invented the world's first electrolytic strip tinning line in 1934 — the process standard now used globally. Serves 400 customers in 80 countries. >90% of output goes to packaging: food cans, aerosol cans, paint tins, and bottle caps. Germany achieved 94.3% recycling rate for tinplate packaging in 2024.
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Tinplate for Food Cans
45%Tinplate for Aerosol & Chemical Cans
25%Tinplate for Closures & Specialty
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Did you know2024
Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein's 1.5 million tonnes per year of tinplate from its single Andernach plant supplies packaging for five entirely separate consumer industries: (1) food preservation — sardine cans, tomato cans, pet food tins, baby formula tins, and ready-meal containers; (2) personal care aerosols — hairspray and deodorant spray cans; (3) paint and hardware — paint tins, chemical storage containers; (4) beverage closures — the crown corks (bottle caps) on virtually every glass beer bottle; and (5) decorative tins — Christmas cookie tins, biscuit gift tins. The same Andernach, Germany plant using the 1934-invented electrolytic tinning process produces the material for the sardine can feeding a coastal Portuguese family, the hairspray in a Berlin salon, the paint tin in a London hardware store, the bottle cap on a Munich beer, and the Christmas biscuit tin at a British supermarket. Five completely unrelated consumer industries sharing 1,400 customers globally through one Rhine-valley tinplate plant.
Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein GmbH ↗Origin2023
The Rasselstein ironworks location in Andernach on the Rhine River dates to the 13th century — one of Germany's oldest iron processing sites, leveraging the Rhine Valley's charcoal forests and water power for iron ore smelting. Rasselstein became known for thin iron sheet ("Rasselstein" literally relates to the Rasse stream in the area) used for tinned containers. The critical innovation occurred in 1934: Rasselstein engineers developed the world's first continuous electrolytic strip tinning line — replacing the previous batch hot-dip tinning process with a continuous electrochemical deposition that was faster, used less tin, and produced more uniform coating. This 1934 electrolytic tinning process became the global standard for tinplate production — every modern tinplate plant worldwide uses the electrolytic process that Rasselstein invented in the Rhineland 90 years ago. Thyssenkrupp's ownership of the world's oldest continuously operating tinplate site gives it a process heritage dating eight centuries from a Rhine village ironworks.
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