In the golden autumn season, on the land of Inner Mongolia with Maillard colors, rice is low, corn is filled, soybean is bulging, cattle and sheep are flocked, and fish are plump... A bumper harvest scene, a large area of “ruby” tomato harvest in which it looks particularly gorgeous, the fiery red tomatoes peeking out from the green leaves, shining in the sunlight with brilliant colors, dense layers of leaves laughing in the autumn wind, the earth is stained red.

COFCO Tunhe (Hangjin Houqi) Tomato Co., Ltd., located in Bayannur Hangjin Houqi, is also in this beautiful harvest joy of big red, and cans are stepping up the production of high-quality tomato sauce for the world.

As a metal packaging supplier of COFCO Tunhe, ORG has prepared for the tomato harvest season of COFCO Tunhe in advance, and as of the end of September, ORG has supplied tens of millions of cans to COFCO Tunhe (Hangjin Houqi) Tomato Co., Ltd.

Working together to go hand in hand, ORG and COFCO Tunhe have been helping each other for 20 years

Since 2003, ORG and COFCO Tunhe have been working closely together.

COFCO Tunhe relies on raw material resources and processing advantages to supply high-quality, safe and high-quality products to the world, not only that, COFCO Tunhe gives full play to the technical advantages of close cooperation with Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Bayer CropScience, etc., and is committed to solving the problem of variety differentiation in China's processed tomato industry.

As the head enterprise of metal packaging in China, ORG also gives full play to its technical advantages in the cooperation with COFCO Tunhe, especially in the tomato paste, the ace product of COFCO Tunhe, ORG actively develops innovative technologies for anti-corrosion and environmental protection of empty cans, and uses weld powder recoating and inner coating melamine material application technology in the industry, which not only greatly improves the corrosion resistance and leakage prevention of tomato sauce packaging, but also improves the overall sealing and freshness performance of the tank, and also has great advantages in prolonging the shelf life and freshness of tomato sauce。

To this day, the current industry is still continuing ORG’s anti-corrosion and inner coating environmental protection process of empty cans, which shows ORG’s technical strength in tomato sauce packaging.

The “big” packaging of small tomatoes is leading, and the empty cans are full of innovation and environmental protection technology

In recent years, the global tomato sauce industry has developed rapidly, and China’s tomato products have accounted for 20% of the world's tomato product exports, especially the export volume of tomato sauce products has reached 33% of the world’s, becoming the world's largest tomato sauce exporter.

COFCO Tunhe’s annual production capacity has reached more than 400,000 tons, accounting for one-third of China's output.

Over the years of cooperation, ORG has not only escorted COFCO Tunhe’s high-quality tomato sauce with industry-leading anti-corrosion and inner coating environmental protection technology, but also actively sought breakthroughs at the technical level, and carried out projects such as material thinning and new metal material application are in the leading position in the industry.

In 2000, DR material (secondary cold-rolled tin plate, chrome plate) was applied to tomato canned products.

As the first enterprise in China to apply DR material with a thickness of 0.15mm to the large-scale production of food cans, ORG has adopted the DR material of this thickness on the 539#/70g empty cans supplied to COFCO Tunhe, and the thickness of the thinning tank made of DR material made by continuous reducer die has been reduced from the original 0.20mm to 0.15mm, and the material saving rate has reached 25%-30%, which has reached the international level.

The application of thinning cans not only helps to improve the high-temperature sterilization effect of tomato sauce products, but also has great significance for the market recognition of COFCO Tunhe environmental protection packaging.

In 2014, the 0.15mm thickness DR material Lulu can produced by ORG won the silver medal in the field of three-piece beverage cans issued by The Canmaker, which is the world’s leading technology in this field, and the secondary cold-rolled tinplate material thinning project has authorized 12 patents, which was selected into the National High-tech Research and Development Program (863 Program) and won the 2015 China Canned Food Industry Innovation Award.

In 2022, after years of research, ORG, which has made brilliant achievements in the field of coated iron, once again upgraded the packaging for its partner COFCO Tunhe, and upgraded the packaging of canned diced tomatoes with 758#/200g empty cans comparable to the international level, helping “200g diced tomatoes” to become a popular product of COFCO Tunhe, which can be described as “thin skin and large filling, strong fresh cans”.

COFCO Tunhe’s high-quality tomato products and ORG’s high-tech metal cans have jointly achieved high-quality domestic products that sell well in more than 80 countries and regions such as Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, etc., and have also contributed a lot to China’s tomato food in an important position in the world.

Over the years, ORG has been concentrating on the research of thinning tank technology, and on the basis of ensuring the pressure resistance of the finished product of the two-piece can, it has completed the first sample test and batch trial of the appropriate thinning of the aluminum thickness of the lid and the thickness of the pull ring of the lid, and has continued to increase technology research and development and investment in the lightweight application of the tank body and the lid, laying a solid foundation for the upgrading and reform of the industrial structure in the future and the sustainable development of the upstream and downstream of the entire industrial chain.

Looking back at the red “jewel” road of COFCO Tunhe, ORG has always used the strength of packaging technology to increase the product strength of COFCO Tunhe. ORG, which adheres to the principle of “no innovation, no future”, has always hoped to provide more innovative and promising packaging and services for all partners through its own technical strength.