CST has supplied 1.5 million tons of tin plate slabs to the world market since 1997 for several final applications, including D&I, Draw Cans, Double Reduction, Easy Open End. After CSTs hot strip mill was commissioned in September 2002, the Company has supplied hot coils for the foreign market tin plate production since March 2003. In partnership with its customers, CST defined criteria for slab application based on continuous casting quality events and continuous casting parameters, and their relationship with the quality results on the final product.