Lifecycle Assessment of tin production

Life Cycle Assessment of tin production Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) are a widely used technique to assess, understand and evaluate the magnitude and significant potential environmental impacts for a product system. As part of its members’ commitment to sustainable...

TIN2030: A Vision for Tin

Looking into the next decade, the tin industry faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges. It is important for us in the tin sector to understand what lies ahead. To build this picture, the International Tin Association (ITA) has consulted widely across the...

Tin for the Future

Tin For The Future This 3-page datasheet gives an overview of the global tin market, demonstrating how critical tin is to quality of life in the modern world and highlighting its main production sources including recycling. A summary of the work of the International...

Tin in Lithium-ion Batteries

Tin in Lithium-ion Batteries The International Tin Association (ITA) is the main source of global tin industry market information, including scoping of new technology opportunities for tin. In recent years tracking of tin R&D, patents and markets has highlighted...

Tin Explorers and Developers Group – Member Profiles Report

The International Tin Association’s Tin Explorers & Developers Group brings together some of the leading companies striving to become part of the next generation of global tin producers. This report profiles these companies and provides information on the flagship...

2016 Report on Global Tin Resources & Reserves

2016 Report on Global Tin Resources & Reserves This report presents ITRI’s estimate of global tin resources and reserves at the end of 2015, with commentary and outlook for the important tin producing regions of the present, and potentially the future. In summary:...

Tin in Lead-Acid Batteries

ITRI Tin in Lead-Acid Batteries This ITRI report has reviewed use of tin in lead-acid batteries, concluding that current estimated use may grow at around 2.5% to 2025, after which there is a high risk of substitution by lithium-ion and other technologies. Loss of an...

Tin Chemicals Roadmap 2015

ITRI Tin Chemicals Roadmap 2015 Tin chemicals represented 16.5% of tin use in 2013 and may grow by around 7% in 2014 to become the second largest use of tin. Some products are sensitive to substitution with tin price and regulation both significant threats, especially...

Solders Technology Roadmap 2015

ITRI Solders Technology Roadmap 2015 ITRI represents tin producers in support of tin users, including the solders and electronics industries. Bi-annual surveys of technology threats and opportunities accelerate innovation and make new technology implementation more...