ITRI recently held an International Tin Conference in Vancouver, Canada, which over 180 delegates attended. There were 30 speakers who presented papers on production, consumption, investment, trade and regulations. Some of the main points identified are:

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Following the implementation of the first phase of a comprehensive due diligence plan for tin minerals exported from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in July 2009, ITRI is extremely pleased to announce the immediate initiation of a Phase 2 pilot trial which will begin to track minerals and read more

ITRI, together with a representative of the Ministry of Mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), recently held three days of meetings in London in order to finalise implementation details for Phase 2 of the ITRI Tin Supply Chain Initiative (iTSCi) on due diligence and cassiterite read more

Following meetings in Kinshasa last week, the Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Martin Kabwelulu, has backed ITRI’s supply chain monitoring scheme aimed at identifying the sources of tin ore mined in the country’s eastern provinces. In a letter to ITRI project read more

The world’s leading tin smelting companies, working with the global tin association ITRI, have, from the 1st July 2009, implemented the first phase of a comprehensive due diligence plan for tin minerals sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The initiative has been widely read more

For decades the tin market has moved from one crisis to another, and the current world recession is now raising new challenges for all stakeholders in the industry. In the short-term the market is again oversupplied, but in a few years the situation could change dramatically. ITRI’s read more

Representatives of ITRI, the international tin association, have visited China to participate in the ‘Annual Conference of the Chinese Solder Association’ held in Xian, 17th-18th May.

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At its six-monthly Board meeting last week, ITRI members considered the short-term outlook for world tin supply and demand. The market is expected to be in surplus by 5,000 – 10,000 tonnes in 2009 as a result of the sharp decline in world consumption caused by the global economic crisis read more

ITRI Progress Report: Towards a Responsible Cassiterite Supply Chain (12 February 2009)

ITRI today released new data on global tin use by market sector in 2007, together with information on use trends from 2004-2008. Information from this unique industry study, carried out as part of ITRI’s Sustainability Project, is based not only on published statistics and expert estimates, read more

Concerns that the new EU REACH Regulation will disrupt metal and chemical supply to the EU could begin to be realised by the end of this year if importers don’t begin to take action to deal with this new Regulation. REACH will affect every company within the EU, especially those depending read more

A group of manufacturers began work in January to form a consortium for inorganic tin chemicals. The group aims to minimise the costs, and resource requirements, of dealing with the complex provisions of REACH; and would like to encourage potential new participants, including all manufacturers, read more

A new detailed study by ITRI, “Tin to 2012”, identifies the need for accelerated investment in new mine projects to meet future global requirements. The report, released this week, is the first Tin Annual Review from the 75-year old organisation’s recently established Statistics read more

The Tinplate Group recently held a Roadmapping meeting attended by more than 30 international representatives from tinplate producers, canmakers, electrolyte and lacquer suppliers. The aim was to discuss global legislative and technological issues likely to affect the tinplate industry in the read more

The number of tin producers and EU importers committed to data generation for the registration of tin metal under the new REACH Regulation continues to grow. Companies are working together in the ‘Tin Metal Consortium’ in order to minimise the costs and resource requirements of read more

ITRI today released new data on global tin use by market sector in 2006 together with information on use trends from 2004-2007. This unique study, carried out as part of ITRI’s Sustainability Project, is based not only on national and international statistics from official agencies, but read more

ITRI has announced the launch of ‘Tindex’, a fully searchable index to its tin document archive, which is for the first time available on-line. The Tindex contains around 50,000 references to documents, which are held in the ITRI archive. Registration to gain access to this read more

Following discussions with tin industry body ITRI, Indonesia’s Minister of Energy and Resources, Professor Purnomo Yusgiantoro, has made it clear that Indonesia will make every effort to maintain tin supplies to the global market. Indonesian production has been sharply reduced since last read more

The February issue of the CRU Tin Monitor report, now produced in association with ITRI, forecasts that Indonesian supply issues will result in a major run down in tin stocks this year.
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ITRI today released new data from a recently completed study on global tin use by market sector. Solders were found to account for almost 50% of global consumption in 2005, up from 46% in 2004. Tinplate production also continued to grow in China and remains the largest market for the metal in read more

The Tin Innovations Network (TIN) was launched in January 2007 as a major new initiative by ITRI aimed at bringing together research communities from around the world to focus on tin innovations. Through increased communication and cooperation, the network will optimise research funding read more

Important new data generated by ITRI illustrates the current strength of tin demand and the particular importance of the strong Asian electronics sector. Solders and tinplate have always been considered to be the “big read more