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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.

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.

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.

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".

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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