Aluminium and tinplate represent just over 15% of all applications within the £10bn domestic packaging mar-ket: a combined total of 800,000 tonnes per year, pro-duced by 15 UK manufacturers supplemented by a growing level of imports from mainland Europe and lower cost-base economies. Along with that other old stalwart, glass, metal has ceded ground to rigid plastics and flexible film, which collectively now account for £3.2bn of annual UK packaging sales.
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