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1. Materials and processing
1.1 Steel-based materials
Everyone thinks they know steel. Everyone thinks it's a heavy material, reserved for heavy industry. Yet its great flexibility and strength make it a particularly innovative and adaptable material.
Over the last fifteen years, steel has entered a new phase of development thanks to revolutionary technical advances. Continuous casting, the double cold reduction process and vacuum treatment have increased steel quality, homogeneity, internal cleanliness and, consequently, plasticity. Strength and malleability have increased, and packaging thicknesses have been reduced for the same or better performance. We're already into the fifth generation of steel food cans!
In 95% of cases, the techniques used today did not...
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Materials and processing
Types of metal packaging
References
Standardization
Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR) http://www.afnor.fr
Standards books
Paper, cardboard, wood, plastic and metal packaging. 19 AFNOR.
Tins, bottling, aerosol dispensers. 19 AFNOR.
Steel products
- Aluminium et alliages d'aluminium. Produits laminés pour boîtes, capsules rigides et couvercles. Spécifications (indice de classement : A 50-437)....
Organizations
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Bureau de vérification technique BVT
Centre de recherche du Fer-blanc
Comité français des aérosolsCFA
Fédération européenne des aérosolsFEA
Institut de soudure services ISS
Laboratoire d'études et de recherches des emballages métalliquesLEREM
...Manufacturers. Suppliers
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Drums and kegs
Blagden Packaging
Gallay SA
Van Leer France
Boxes and packaging
Tinsmith's helper
Avez SA
Boudeville & Fontaine (Sté des Anciens Éts)
Bugnon (Éts)
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