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Rock River Manufacturing, a factory on the Winnebago Tribe’s reservation, has been operating a 15,000-square-foot plant produces 5,000 cigarettes a minute, or 1.1 billion per year, available nationwide.
At the northeast Nebraska factory, Rock River makes its own Fire Dance, One Spirit, and Silver Cloud brands of cigarettes. Several lines of filtered cigars and pipe tobacco also are made there and marketed under the Fire Dance and One Spirit monikers.
All of the products are made with a special blend of tobacco grown, processed and shipped in 220-pound boxes from North Carolina. The Tar Heel State is the nation’s leading tobacco producer, with more than 331 million pounds of the plant harvested there last year, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Rock River requires about 2.2 million pounds of tobacco to produce its products.
In addition to cigarettes and other traditional tobacco products, Rock River has expanded into the smokeless vape pen, e-cigarette, and e-liquids market with its Kohu brand of products.