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.

2010 International Tin Conference

ITRI is pleased to announce the 2010 International Tin Conference in Vancouver, Canada, 17th - 19th May 2010. This is the foremost tin industry event and an opportunity to meet the key industry players and debate the critical issues.

Further details of the venue, conference programme, and a call for papers will be issued in due course. Watch this space....

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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  Tin Research

ITRI has launched TIN - Tin Innovations Network - for global cooperation in tin research. TIN will optimise funding strategies and decrease time to market.

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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, formerly Tin Technology, is a wholly owned subsidiary of ITRI.  

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