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Tin Price — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
Before Solder, Tin Meant Bronze and Cans
Solder gets most of the attention now, and fairly so — it's tin's biggest use by far. But two older jobs still keep real demand alive underneath that headline story: bronze, the copper-tin alloy that predates written history, and tin plating, the thin corrosion-resistant coating that gave the "tin can" its name even though the can itself is steel. Neither has gone away. Tin is trading at ₹4.55 per gram today, September 17, 2026, and a slice of that demand still runs through these two traditional applications.
Here's that rate converted across the weights buyers in these industries actually order in:
- Per gram: ₹4.55
- Per 10 grams: ₹45.52
- Per 100 grams: ₹455.22
- Per kilogram: ₹4,552.16
As with every other tin application, this rate ties back to LME tin as the global reference market — bronze foundries and can platers price their raw material off the same benchmark that electronics manufacturers do.
Tin Price by Weight
Today's Tin rate is Five Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Tin costs Forty Six Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹4.55 | Five Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹36.42 | Thirty Six Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹45.52 | Forty Six Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹455.22 | Four Hundred and Fifty Five Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹4,552.16 | Four Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹129.05 | One Hundred and Twenty Nine Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹141.59 | One Hundred and Forty Two Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹4,552,158.00 | Forty Five Lakh Fifty Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Eight Rupees |
Bronze: An Alloy Older Than Recorded History
Add tin to copper and something useful happens — the resulting alloy is harder and more durable than copper on its own, and it resists corrosion well enough to survive in places pure copper wouldn't last. That combination is why bronze became one of the first engineered materials humans figured out how to make on purpose, and why an entire era of early civilization carries its name. What's easy to miss is that bronze never actually stopped being made. It just stopped being the newest thing.
Modern bronze still shows up in bearings, where its combination of strength and a naturally low-friction surface matters. It shows up in marine fittings and propellers, where saltwater would eat through cheaper materials fast. And it shows up in certain castings and valve components where both durability and corrosion resistance are worth the cost of specifying bronze over plain steel. None of these are historical curiosities — they're current specifications in industries that have had thousands of years to find something better and, for these particular jobs, largely haven't.
Tin plating: the coating that gave cans their name
Steel is strong and cheap, but it rusts — and rust is exactly what you don't want touching food or drink. Tin plating solves that without turning the whole can into an expensive metal: a thin layer of tin, applied to the surface of a steel sheet, stops corrosion from reaching the steel underneath. Tin does that job well for two reasons that matter specifically for food packaging — it resists corrosion on its own, and it's non-toxic in contact with food, which is not a property every corrosion-resistant metal shares.
That's the entire reason food and beverage cans have been called "tin cans" for well over a century, even though the structural material has always been steel. It's a small irony worth knowing: the part doing the visible, functional work — keeping the contents safe and the can from rusting through — is the thin tin layer, not the bulk of the metal itself.
Tin Price — Last 10 Days
The most recent Tin price on record (2026-09-17) is Five Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹4.53.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹4.55 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹4.53 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹4.56 | -0.13 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹4.69 | -0.04 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹4.74 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹4.73 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹4.77 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹4.79 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹4.78 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹4.76 | — |
How Bronze and Plating Compare to Solder
Put the three major tin applications side by side and the picture is straightforward. None of the figures below are precise tonnages — nobody publishes those with enough granularity to state a firm number — but the relative ordering is well established and worth knowing if you're trying to understand what actually moves tin demand.
| Application | Relative Share of Tin Demand Today | Primary Industry |
|---|---|---|
| Solder | Largest, by a wide margin | Electronics manufacturing |
| Tin plating | Smaller, but real and continuing | Food and beverage packaging |
| Bronze and other alloys | Smallest of the three, still genuine demand | Bearings, marine hardware, castings |
What that ordering means in practice: electronics-industry news moves tin's price the most, because solder absorbs the largest share of global demand. Packaging and foundry demand for plating and bronze move more slowly and more predictably — steel can production and industrial casting volumes don't swing the way consumer electronics cycles do, which makes this a steadier, less headline-driven layer of tin demand sitting underneath the bigger solder story.
For a buyer in the bronze-casting or can-plating business, that steadiness is arguably the more useful fact than any single day's price move. These two uses have survived every major shift in industrial materials for well over a century each, precisely because nothing else does quite the same job at a comparable cost. That's not a forecast — it's just what the historical pattern shows.
Tin Bronze and Plating — FAQs
Bronze is fundamentally a copper-tin alloy — copper forms the bulk of the mix, with tin added to make it harder and more durable than copper alone. Some modern bronze formulations include small amounts of other elements, but the copper-tin combination is what defines bronze as a material.
Both, in a sense. Bronze is genuinely ancient — old enough that a whole era of human history is named after it — but it never stopped being used. Bearings, marine fittings, valve components and certain castings still specify bronze today, because the same corrosion resistance and durability that made it valuable thousands of years ago still matters in those applications now.
Tin resists corrosion well and is non-toxic in contact with food, which matters enormously for something that holds what people eat and drink. A thin tin layer over steel gives the can the strength of steel with a food-safe, corrosion-resistant surface, at a fraction of what solid tin would cost.
No — and this trips people up constantly. The can body is steel. Tin is only the thin plated coating on the surface, doing the corrosion-resistance work. The name stuck from an era when that detail mattered less to shoppers than the fact that the can wouldn't rust from the inside out.
They're different jobs entirely. Solder is a tin alloy used to join and conduct electricity between components on a circuit board — a role tied to electronics manufacturing. Plating is a thin surface coating on steel, used for corrosion protection on cans and similar products, with no electrical function at all. Both rely on tin's properties, but they sit in completely different industries.
No. Solder for electronics manufacturing is tin's largest use by a wide margin today. Bronze and tin plating are real, continuing uses with genuine industrial demand behind them, but they represent a much smaller share of total tin consumption than solder does.
