In the 17th century, Britain, France, and Sweden all hoped to establish their own tinplate industries, but they needed a lot of money. So it has not been developed. It was not until 1811, when Brian Donkin and John Hall opened tinplate canned food, that tinplate manufacturing developed on a large scale. Today, the world produces about 250,000 tonnes of tin a year, more than a third of which is used to make tinplate, most of which is used in the canned food industry.
