Germany’s Thyssenkrupp Packaging Steel has developed an improved solution as part of its efforts to further optimize steel packaging.

The new material grade steel packaging solution offers protective effect of packaging with a low empty weight for many years and under a wide variety of environmental influences.

Solidflex includes high degrees of formability and precisely-adjusted properties, in addition to good stackability and resistance to breakage.

The new solution’s combination of properties allows the thickness of the material to be reduced with the final product, while the expansion of the room for play for the usage and handling of the package.

Its thickness has been reduced to 0.18mm compared against 0.21 mm, and diameters more than 73mm73 mm is possible with the new grade.

A further reduction to 0.16 mm instead of the current 0.18 mm is also possiblw, with a diameter of the lid of 73mm.

According to the company, the packaging steel specialists in Andernach succeeded in further optimizing the proven grade double reduced (DR) formable with Solidflex.

thyssenkrupp Packaging Steel material technology manager Dr Burkhard Kaup said: “By increasing the hardness still more, we can make available a packaging steel that has a tensile strength of 700 MegaPascals instead of the previous 580 - and this with not just an equivalent, but rather with an extended elongation between 5 and 10%.”

thyssenkrupp Packaging Steel CEO Dr Peter Biele said: “Solidflex is the latest example of our constant search for advantages for our customers. In further processing, Solidflex also increases process reliability and product quality.

“The greater material efficiency also helps reduce costs and thus provides our customers with a competitive advantage.”

 

Source: containers.packaging-business-review.com

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