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Tightness in tin to persist

Electronics and the electrical sector used to account for around half of total tin usage. But tin is finding new sources of demand in the green economy and in the transport and chemical sectors. In this Metals Watch, we delve more deeply into the demand profile, in particular, and assess the likely drivers of the price of tin over the next eighteen months.

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