History of tinplate

History of tinplate, what is tinplate?

According to the public relations report of the management of museums and the oil industry document center, Parisa Jalilian wrote in this regard:

The need for encapsulation during the past centuries led to the formation of an industry which is called pressing today, all kinds of cutting and scissor machines, pressing machines with different molds were created to form tin sheets to cover all kinds of items that needed to be preserved for a longer period. So, various companies around the world started to build machines, and factories and employ countless workers to enter this industry. 

Developments happened in 1790 in the middle of the French wars, the need to store food for the army soldiers made the government think of finding a solution in this field and then considering a cash prize, a person named Nicolas Aper succeeded in inventing a method. It kept the food healthy for a longer period. In the beginning, closed glasses were used and it was thought that the reason why they did not spoil was the lack of oxygen, later Pasteur improved this method with different theories, and as a result of these changes, the need for glazed and metal containers instead of glass was felt. The method of soldering and making tin sheets was invented, and the 19th century became a basis for the growth of these factories.

Tin plates are thin sheets that are steel sheets that are coated with tin on both sides to prevent corrosion and rust.

Before the oil industry started, in the world machines and giant steam boilers turned the wheels of the industry and coal was used as a source of energy production, but later, oil became a source of fuel and energy. The history of oil caused the evolution and development of industrial machinery, but still pressing had not found an important place in the meantime until the need to encapsulate petroleum materials was felt, tin containers for transportation to hard-to-reach areas and people's daily use and prevent Waste petroleum products were useful and were later used in World War II to fuel airplanes and fighter jets.

For this purpose, the factories of Tin in the Middle East, the beating heart of the history of the oil industry, started. Western Iran is one of the regions that had several factories for the construction of Tin, in the book Kermanshah, a city in Iran written by John E. Clark and Brian. January. Clark states that during the years 1318-1324 and the Second World War, four tin can production units were built in the west of Iran, and in 1344 only one factory in the Kermanshah refinery was still working. In this book, 6 million cans were produced. It is mentioned in the Tin factory of Kermanshah Refinery in the year that it was used to package petroleum products such as gasoline, kerosene, diesel, solvents, and Kermanshahi Amshi insecticide. The author mentions the increase in the import of tin sheets for the manufacture of tin cans and the end says that if there is a decrease in the production of cans for petroleum products, these cans or cans made by the canning factory will be used for other purposes, for example in 1344 ten thousand cans It was sold to the bakery industry for the distribution of cookie crisping oil.

According to the historical age, the Halab Sazi complex of pressing and forming tin sheets can be considered one of the first examples of this industry in Kermanshah. Since the opening of the Tin factory between 1301 and 1314, tin sheets were used to make an 18-liter unit of tin, in the production process, it was applied by a variety of presses, scissors, gunya, rolling, press, forming, and pressing. Before the revolution, consumable sheets were imported from England and Spain, and after the revolution from Japan, the Tin factory was active in the production of oil barrels until 1375.