Articles Q4 10

BAT Converts Korea

By Heneage Mitchell

In Seoul, shoppers at a 7-ll convenience store stare at packs of Kent Convertible cigarettes which have just been launched exclusively in the city. The packs are apparently equipped with different colored flashing lights that are signalling for attention.
In Busan, on the other side of the country, a Korean businessman places several packets of Kent Convertible that he purchased in Seoul that morning on the table in front of colleagues and associates, dispensing individual sticks or entire packets to his enthralled guests.

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INTER-TABAC ASIA Asia’s First Regional Trade-Only Tobacco Products/Accessories Show Debuts in 2012

To be held in conjunction with PROTOBEX Asia the Asia region’s exclusive equipment, machinery, supplies and services exhibition

BANGKOK, THAILAND AND DORTMUND, GERMANY – INTER-TABAC ASIA, the first Asia regional business-to-business exhibition exclusively for the tobacco retail, wholesale, and distribution trade will be held in late March 2012 in Manila, Philippines.

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Marvelous Development of Great Wall Cigars

By Allen Liao

Great Wall Cigar Factory (GWCF) of Sichuan-Chongqing Regional China Tobacco Industry Corporation in southwest China – one of the four cigar makers designated by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) – has created yet another marvel by developing and presenting to the market a new cigar product named Chuanqi (Marvel).
After decades of development, the cigar-making sector of China’s tobacco industry has entered a new stage of growth. GWCF, a leading domestic cigar manufacturer, has kept developing new products on the basis of its unique historical origin and through unremitting efforts, bringing pleasant surprises to consumers one after another.

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Aphidius Gifuensis (Ashmead) Safeguards Ecological Leaf Tobacco in Yunnan

By Allen Liao

Southwest China’s Yunnan province – the largest tobacco-growing region in China (known as the Kingdom of Tobacco) – has achieved remarkable success in the application of Aphidius Gifuensis (Ashmead) in its drive to develop “nuisance-free, green and ecological leaf tobacco” over recent years.

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Mighty Turns 65

By Heneage Mitchell

Mighty Tobacco Corporation, the owners of the most quintessentially Filipino cigarette brand La Campana, is celebrated its 65th anniversary on September 20, 2010.
Mighty, a family-owned business, is now the largest independent tobacco manufacturer in the Philippines after the Philip Morris/Fortune Tobacco merger earlier this year. It is also the oldest cigarette manufacturing concern in the country.

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China’s Core Competitiveness Enhanced by CIMS

By Allen Liao

The Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) introduced by China’s tobacco industry in a major drive to promote its cigarette production to a higher level over recent years is now playing a significant role in enhancing its core competitiveness.
At the 2010 national conference on tobacco work held in Beijing in January, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) – the regulator of the tobacco industry – specifically defined “promotion of cigarette to a higher level” as a basic policy and strategic task for the tobacco industry over a future period of time.

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Hauni Highlights 2010

Staff Report

Japan expects perfection
The double-track rod charcoal filter line consisting of KDF-M teamed with AC-M is undergoing tests to determine how well it can process the materials needed to make specially demanding products.
As tests in various standard areas of production have already shown, the new KDF-M double-track filter line puts 100% shift efficiency within reach. In 2009 Japan Tobacco International (JTI) carried out a series of extensive tests at its German location in Trier which confirmed the line’s high productivity figure.

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Repeatability, Accuracy and Affordability: The MoistTech Advantage

By Heneage Mitchell

MoistTech, a division of Sensortech Systems Inc., was founded in 1982 by the former owners of Moisture Systems, the pre-eminent moisture meter experts from 1970’s though to the late 1990’s, when the company was sold.

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Packaging & Tobacco: The Final Billboard

By Andrej Vlahcevic
With marketing communication shifting from traditional to more ethereal channels such as social networking, consumer product goods companies are developing a fresh appreciation for the role of packaging in reinforcing their brand’s image. The package remains one of the more concrete interactions between the consumer and the brand. This trait is particularly relevant for industries with restricted marketing capacity, such as the tobacco industry, where regulations triggered by public health concerns have driven tobacco marketing out of more traditional outlets.

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