Welcome to the ITRI site

The world's foremost authority on tin.

ITRI is the only organisation dedicated to supporting the tin industry and expanding tin use. It is largely funded by tin producers and smelters. A primary goal is to ensure an innovative, competitive and sustainable market for tin.

ITRI provides a unique link between tin producers and tin consumers and over many decades has built up global networks in all of the major tin using markets.

 
  ITRI China

  ITRI China established in 2009 to support the world's largest market for tin.
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Asian Steel Packaging Conference

Sustainable Packaging - Preserving the Future

22-24 September 2010 - Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sustainability & REACH

ITRI has a unit dedicated to gathering sustainability data on tin in support of the tin industry, facing upcoming EU REACH and other global legislation.

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  Technology

ITRI engages with tin using industries, monitors technology drivers and tracks emerging technologies to ensure that its support has maximum impact on future markets for tin.

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The future of soldering technology 

Soldertec was launched in 1999 as the world's first lead-free soldering technology centre.  It hosts a membership organisation which provides a network of electronics supply chain companies drawn from Europe, Asia, and the Americas

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Promoting and supporting the tinplate industry

The Tinplate Group is a unique membership forum for the world's major tinplate producers and their suppliers, including steel companies, electrolyte suppliers, tinplate producers, can makers, lacquer manufacturers, and can fillers.

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ITRI Innovation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of ITRI.  

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