300.000
Roughly 300.000 tons of
metalpackaging raw materials.
50 +
Sales to over 50 countries.
Five decades of global experience into bulk shipping.
2
Two industrial centers for product customization.
# 1
First customers or main exporter for over ten
global brands in steel and aluminum production.
100.000
100.000 tons of steel and aluminum for metalpackaging
always in inventory for our customers.
We are the largest metal packaging raw materials distributor in the world, with sales across more than 100 countries.

OUR COMPANY
SteelForce Packaging is a trading, processing and distribution company headquartered in Antwerp, specializing in metal packaging solutions, with local operations in Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America. It is part of SteelForce Group, the global leader in trading metal packaging raw materials.
A value proposal based on:
01
Commitment
A life commitment to supplying, advising and promoting the metal packaging industry.
Supporting the metal packaging industry to clean the world
02
Market intelligence
Why let the next market trend dominate you, when you can lead the way towards a new industry balance.
A value proposal based on:
03
Supply guarantee
A track record at anticipating logistics disruption and systematically turning transport drama into competitive advantage.
THE STRATEGIC SOURCE OF METAL PACKAGING WORLD BRANDS
SUPPLIER CHOICE
Selecting the right product delivers production efficiency while allowing maximum price competitiveness.
DOOR TO DOOR SERVICE
Decreasing customer's inventory, inventing transport solutions, building the most efficient logistic route, finally turning the whole sourcing experience into an easy practice.
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Offering the right technical recommendations and following standard processes to make claims legitimate and successful.
KPIs MEASUREMENT
Understanding the results customers are seeking, promoting continuous benchmarking through unmatched industry intelligence, and executing with excellence.
CAPITAL IMPACT
A first-class service that drastically hits working capital, it allows focusing cash on the core of the business where shareholders return is maximized.
PRODUCTS
Electrolytic Tinplate (ETP)
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Tinplate is a light gauge steel that is electrolytically coated with pure tin for enhanced corrosion protection. It is available in either a highly reflective bright surface, or as a non-reflective matte finish. Tinplate is highly formable and weldable, making it suitable for a wide range of canmaking technologies. Because of its corrosion resistance, a wide variety of food products can be packed in tinplate cans.
Tinplate is ideally suited as a base metal for lithography and organic coatings for items such as decorative tins, aerosol cans, and paint cans. We can process coils, straight and scroll cutting sheets and coated and lithographed sheets, in both cutting type.
Tin Free Steel (TFS)
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Commonly called TFS, tin free steel is actually a light gauge, electolytically coated chromium sheet. It is a more economialternative to tinplate, primarily used for can ends. TFS is an excellent base for organic coatings and lithography. In addition to can ends, TFS is also used for lockseamed can bodies, as well as numerous non-container items. We can process coils, straight and scroll cutting sheets and coated and lithographed sheets, in both cutting type.
Tin Mill Black Plate (TMBP)
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Tin mill black plate is a light gauge steel normally used as raw material for TFS or ETP, however, since prices for those material are rising, TMBP has been used in general applications for non-food uses like decorative cans, dry battery jackets and jewelry boxes. It can be lacquered or printed directly in the conventional lines used in the metal packaging industry. We can process coils, straight and scroll cutting sheets and coated and lithographed sheets, in both cutting type.
Laminated Steel
Laminated steel is a light gauge steel coated with different polymer layers which allow to reduce lacquering operations. Normally, layers of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) or Polypropylene (PP) are used. This material has the same formability features than other metal packaging materials like ETP or TFS, and it can be used for 2 piece food cans, fish cans, aerosols and components for general line. We can process laminated steel in both, coils or straight/ scroll cutting sheets.
Lithographed & Lacquered
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We offer our clients the possibility of delivering lithographed and lacquered, both Tinplate (ETP) and Tin Free Steel (TFS - Electrolytic Chromium Coated Steel.
This refers to the width, length and thickness, which define the number of units of products that will be obtained from each lithographed plate. This searches for the maximum width, the maximum length and the minimum thickness, which in turn reduces the production cost of each element.
Services
Through a daily control of the global demand-offer-costs trends within the metalpackaging industry, we deliver accurate competitiveness assessments. Any sourcing strategy change comes as the result of an investigation process.
- Analyzing past performance, comparing it to industry peers, and evaluating all aspects of the current supply chain, especially those related to the product range and technical requirements
- Drafting an improvement map where the areas with potential are crossed with our four generations’ experience in proposing replacing products from our production partners’ portfolio
- Following, procurement value becomes a set of supply chain goals
- Each goal gets a related action plan, with a precise timeline
Effective procurement actions usually evolve into strategies affecting approximately 20% of can manufacturers total steel and aluminum demand. In the last 10, SFP’s success rate at launching product replacement importing projects has been 92% out of over 250 attempts. Nonetheless, when customers decide not to engage in transitions, they still find mapping results very valuable to confirm their strategies or plan future transitions on their own.
At SFP we believe successful relationships are those built out of trust and continuity. As a response to globalization, and in need of controlling the evolution of political, capacity, and logistics disruption global events, origins analyses are made available to customers in need of staying up to that with present and planned global capacity evolution. The purpose is not to generate short-midterm impacts, but to give organizations’ decision makers the needed visibility to be prepared for tomorrow’s supply-demand balance.
To be up to date with global logistics and regulation dynamics has become a full time job, and we dominate it. Our presence in all steel commodities helps us prevent regulation changes and project their impacts on sources and logistics.
Leveraging Steelforce Group’s experience in steel commodities, SFP pioneered bulk vessels for the metalpackaging industry years before it became a necessity. Thus, loading, unloading, transit, and port challenges are today issues we effectively prevent.
SFP’s proposes to its partners a business model where production planning is paired with local stocking solutions that aim to maximize flexibility to in facing delivery requirements.
There are times in manufacturers’ history when financing becomes a challenge with new projects requiring significant cash resources.
In the sight of this, SFP is fully committed to offering the highest working capital support in the industry. A set of customized financial solutions, that when combined with local stocking, guarantee an unmatched degree of flexibility. Sourcing turns into cash beneficial and financially risk-free exercise
Within global trade, daily sourcing opportunities’ effectiveness usually depends on the ability to turn currencies differences into a competitive advantage. In the years, SFP developed both the capability to buy in all the main steel currencies and to sell with local currency in all its strategic destinations.
Additionally, upon buyers’ request, by anticipating currency hedging, SFP secures price validity throughout negotiations and offsets midterm volatility effects on price
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Partnering with customers on a long-term base to spot sourcing and marketing challenges ahead of time, then leveraging our solutions portfolio to design customized sourcing and marketing strategies that will ultimately mark the difference in our customers’ potential to create value for their shareholders and the environment.
Creating a global metal packaging and food network for raw material producers, industries and retailers to connect with each other and achieve superior results for their stakeholders. At Seal of Quality we have the ambition to widen consumers’ experience with new products and environmentally sustainable packaging solutions.
Corporate partners
CORPORATE

Production partners
PRODUCTION






WHERE OTHERS SEE SOURCING ISSUES, WE SPOT DOORS TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
KEY LOCATIONS
BELGIUM
SteelForce Packaging B.V.
Antwerp - Principal Headquarters
Lange Klarenstraat 16-20/ 2000, BE
+32 32241080
CHINA
SFP Chinese Sourcing
Room 902, No. 555 Langao Road, Putuo District, Shanghai, China
+86 (0) 2158302605
COLOMBIA
The American Metal Packaging Company S.A.S
One Plaza Business Center
Cra. 43A #5A – 113 / Torre Sur / Oficina 412 - Medellín, Colombia
+57 323 416 6816
Steelforce Packaging Industrial
Calle 7 MZ 18 LT 285 A 287 - Zona Franca Zofia, Galapa, Barranquilla, Colombia
+57 301 447 1708
ITALY
Steelforce Italy s.r.l
Via Francesco Carrara n.24
00126 Rome - Italy
SF Services
Via Mandrizzo, Fisciano, Salerno, 84084, Italy
MEXICO
Steelforce Packaging Mexicana
Av. Antonio Lavoisier SN
MZ 1 LT 7 y 8 y ESQ Gonzalez Camarena
Parque Industrial Cuamat. C.P 54716 - Cautitlan Izcalli, Mexico City, Mexico
+ 57 323 416 6816
USA
Steelforce Packaging America inc.
2009 Mackenzie way - Suite 100
Cranberry Township Pittsburgh, PA, 16066, US
14 Wall ST, New York, NY, 10005, US
+1 212 618 1644
SWITZERLAND
Seal of Quality
Via Zorzi 28, Paradiso, Ticino 6900, CH
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