Established in December 1994 and put into operation at the end of 1997, the company is a joint venture incorporated by Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC), one of the world’s largest steel enterprises and the world’s largest tinplate producer, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Marubeni Itochu Steel Inc., CNT Tin Plate Ltd., Industrial Development Corporation of Guangzhou Development District and Guangzhou Light Industry & Trade Group Ltd., with a total investment of 108 million US dollars, a registered capital of 36 million US dollars. It has established a brand PATIN.

　　The company is designed with an annual production capacity of 200,000 tons of high-quality tinplate (electrolytic tinplate), adopting the Frostean production process and the technologies such as insoluble anode and tin ion supply developed by NSSMC, reaching the internationally advanced level. The company produced tinplate products with the base plates imported from NSSMC with related processes such as electroplating, cutting and packaging. Some products are sold domestically, and some are exported to countries such as the US, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey. The company has 1 fully-automatic tinplate production line, 3 shearing lines and 1 semi-automatic packaging lines.

　　At present, its products are widely applied in markets of high-end purposes including beverage cans (such as Red Bull), food cans, milk powder cans (Mead Johnson, Nestle, Yashily, etc.), aerosol cans (Gunner and Chrysanthemum mosquito repellents). It has always taken the lead in the industry in terms of product quality. Its product “Tinplate” has won an honor of a famous brand of Guangdong for its excellent brand image and quality. The company has successively passed the certification of ISO9001 quality control system, ISO18001 occupational safety and health management system, ISO14000 environment control system, ISO2200 food safety control system, and has been certified as a clean production enterprise of Guangdong Province and an outstanding clean production enterprise of Guangzhou.