What Uses Tin?
· ₹4,782.72/kg today
One of the six original London Metal Exchange metals — and, in its modern life, mostly known for the tiny bead of solder holding your electronics together.
What Uses Tin?
Detailed application mapping is currently being developed for Tin. In the meantime, see the metal profile for who buys it and which industries depend on it.
The Solder Metal
Since regulations phased lead out of electronics solder, tin-based alloys became the standard replacement — making electronics manufacturing the single largest source of tin demand today, a very different role from the tin cans and bronze the metal is historically associated with.
A Market Thinner Than It Looks
Tin trades in far smaller volumes than copper or aluminium on the LME, which means supply disruptions at even a handful of major mines or smelters can move the price more sharply than a similarly-sized disruption would for a bigger, deeper metals market.
One of the Four 'Conflict Minerals'
Tin is one of the four minerals — tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold, often shortened to "3TG" — that US and EU regulations specifically require companies to trace back through their supply chains, because artisanal mining in parts of Central Africa has historically been linked to funding armed conflict. That compliance burden genuinely shapes which mines global electronics buyers are willing to source tin from, not just what they pay for it.
Did You Know?
Tin is one of the original six metals traded on the London Metal Exchange since the 1870s, yet remains one of the lowest-volume contracts of the group.
Frequently Asked Questions
Detailed use-case data for Tin is not yet available on this page.
The Tin price in India today is ₹4,782.72 per kilogram as of August 28, 2026. See the live price and chart.
Metal Applications™ is an informational reference built from public data and named sources. See the methodology page for how figures are sourced and confidence-rated.
