Tin container manufacturer · Taloja, Navi Mumbai
Tin containers for spices, paints & chemicals.
Gateway Metal Industries has made tinplate boxes and cans since 1975, first in Lower Parel and now in Taloja MIDC. Pick from 19 standard sizes or send us your own.

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- Making tins since
- 1975
- Standard sizes
- 19
- Capacities
- 50 ml – 1 kg
- Shapes
- Round, square, rectangular
- Works
- Taloja MIDC, Navi Mumbai
What we make
Tins for three trades, and everything in between.
Most of our tins go to spice packers, paint and adhesive makers, and dye and chemical companies. Each size comes in plain tinplate or a lacquer colour.
Spices & foodSpices & food
- Curry powder, 125 g7.5 × 5.5 × 7
- Curry powder, 250 g7.5 × 5.5 × 12.5
- Curry powder, 500 g11 × 8 × 12.5
- Round cookie tinsØ 13, Ø 19
Paints & adhesivesPaints & adhesives
- 50 mlØ 5.5 × 4
- 100 mlØ 5.5 × 6
- 200 mlØ 7.5 × 6
- 500 mlØ 8.5 × 11
Dyes & chemicalsDyes & chemicals
- 1 kg box16 × 16 × 12.5
- 1 kg box, tall15.5 × 15.5 × 19
Plus eight general-purpose boxes, from a 5 cm mini round to a 33 cm tray tin.
See 2 chemical boxesHow an order runs
From your drawing to dispatch.
Standard sizes skip straight to production. New sizes go through tooling and a sample first.
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Specification
We agree the size, tinplate, lid and finish with you, from a drawing, a sample, or one of our standard tins.
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Tooling & sample
For a new size we make the tooling and a sample tin. Nothing goes into production until you approve it.
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Production
Sheets are cut, formed and seamed, and lids fitted, on our lines in Taloja.
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Checks & dispatch
Tins are checked for seams, lid fit and finish, then packed and sent to you.
Custom sizes
Need a size we don’t list?
Send us these six details and we can price it. A photo of a sample tin works too.
Start a custom quote- Size
- Diameter × height, or length × width × height, in cm
- Quantity
- Roughly how many, and how often you reorder
- Contents
- Powder, paste, liquid or solvent
- Lid
- Slip lid, lever lid, or not sure yet
- Finish
- Plain tinplate or a lacquer colour
- Needed by
- Your target delivery date
Since 1975
Fifty years of making tins.
Ismail Sulemanji Patrawala starts Gateway Metal Industries in a workshop in Lower Parel, Mumbai.
Production moves to larger works at A87, MIDC Taloja in Navi Mumbai.
Still family-run, making tins for spice, paint and chemical companies.
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