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Redefining the Art of Filter Combining

Staff report

International Tobacco Machinery BV (ITM) has a long history of producing tobacco equipment to customer specifications. ITM’s openness to innovations and intention to serve its customers in the best possible way have led to several new concepts in the market of cigarette and filter making. And now ITM is pushing the envelope of filter making even further. With the Solaris multi segment filter combiner, ITM offers an extendable filter making machine with unique capabilities.

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The Innovative Edge of Schlatterer

Staff report 

Max Schlatterer GmbH & Co K.G. is located in the small town of Herbrechtingen, named Herbytown by its friends. This is the place where old craftsmanship meets high tech innovation. In the beginning there was one old narrow fabric loom modified to be one of the first functional endless weaving machines.

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Chinese Cigarette Paper Manufacturers Strive to Develop

By Allen Liao

Chinese cigarette paper manufacturers, facing pressure from all sides as well as the lingering impacts of recession stemming from the global financial crisis, are striving for development by adopting various means, mainly including the reduction of costs and intensification of efforts to enter international markets.

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Great Wall: China’s No. 1 Cigar Brand

By Allen Liao

Great Wall Cigar Factory (GWCF) is affiliated to China Tobacco Chuanyu Industrial Corporation (CIC.) and was founded in 2007. The factory has a 90-year production history behind its main cigar brand, Great Wall, the first and only Chinese-made cigar available since 1950. GWCF represents China at international expositions and has won many honors. Nowadays, GWCF products sell in over 30 Chinese provinces, cities and municipalities. It is consistently the domestic leader in terms of output and sales volume. Great Wall is the symbolic, representative Chinese cigar brand and has earns its status as "China’s No. 1 cigar brand". 

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Dry Ice Expanded Tobacco In Demand

Staff report 

Airco DIET is experiencing a massive interest in new DIET facilities worldwide as the demand for Dry Ice Expanded Tobacco skyrockets.

Airco DIET has supplied close to 55 DIET plants worldwide and is a household name for high expansion within the tobacco industry. The DIET process itself was invented and patented as a joint venture between Airco DIET and Philip Morris and today all major players in the cigarette industry own DIET plants.

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India Bumper Crop, Record Prices – Can It Last?

By Heneage Mitchell

After the last two years of escalating returns to India’s tobacco farmers as prices soared to record highs – and then continued to climb – its hardly surprising that India is recording its largest tobacco crop ever in 2010.

It is estimated that this year Indian tobacco farmers will produce 420 million kg of tobacco – of which flue-cured Virginia will account for about 350 million kg. Burley production ranks second, followed by other air-cured and sun-cured varieties and around 5 million kg of oriental tobacco.

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Excellence in Engineering: A Fraternal Solution for Cigarette Factories

By Heneage Mitchell

Hyderabad is home to two tobacco equipment owned by two brothers that between them provide complete solutions for cigarette making and packaging. This fact has not gone unnoticed by many cigarette manufacturers, including transnational giants, across the region and beyond who have turned to Budhan Engineerings Pvt. Ltd. and Dynamic Tools Pvt. Ltd. to supply their equipment needs.

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Chinese Cigarette Pack Printers Struggling

By Allen Liao 

Because of high cigarette packaging costs, China’s cigarette pack printers face a dilemma regarding investment in procurement and maintenance of equipment.

Chinese tobacco manufacturers favor luxurious and sophisticated cigarette packaging, for which they have to pay high prices.

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KT&G: Masters of the Super Slim

By Heneage Mitchell

Korea’s KT&G is entering a new phase in its development with the appointment of Min Young Jin as its new c.e.o., replacing Kwak Young Kyoon, effective February 26. Min, 52, was previously chief of the production, and research and development divisions of KT&G. Tobacco Asia has been taking a look at this dynamic company and reports on some of the challenges and opportunities Min will be facing as he steps up to the plate.

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Japan’s Retail Trends New Pricing Environment: New Cigarette Market?

By Don Hedley

Japan’s smokers have not had to deal with a tax-driven price hike for four years and have got used to some of the lowest prices in the developed world. Don Hedley, tobacco analyst at Euromonitor International, speculates on the possible impact of the approaching big rise and suggests that the pricing environment in Japan has already changed.

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Korean RTL: Low Cost, Low Tar and Low Nic Solution

By Heneage Mitchell South Korean company Tae-A was established as privately-owned company in 1972. Since that time, Tae-A has been the only reconstituted tobacco paper manufacturer in Korea.“Tae-A’s production history started when we purchased a license and technology package from Kimberly-Clark in 1976,” according to K.Y Lee of Tae-A. “Since then, Tae-A has been the only reconstituted tobacco supplier to KT&G in Korea.”

 

Tobacco & Public Health: Time to Move On?

By: Chris Crawley It will surprise some in the public health community, but originally the tobacco industry never intended to harm its customers with a new product: manufactured cigarettes. Why would it? It didn’t occur to the fledgling cigarette business that smoking cigarettes may be harmful. On the contrary when cigarettes were first produced they were considered a great idea. They were smaller, much more convenient and easier to carry than cigars. The packaging was novel. What wasn’t to like? They entirely suited a modern world on the move.

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