Imperial's Efka Filter Tubes Business Marks Centenary

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 08/14/2012

About 800 guests recently attended an event to celebrate the centenary of Imperial Tobacco’s Efka filter tubes business in Germany. Employees and their families were joined by suppliers, politicians and media representatives at the celebration at the company’s factory in Trossingen. Guests had the opportunity to take a tour of the site, led by factory manager Matthias Girod, and to visit an exhibition of historic machinery, products and Efka advertising material. The factory, the Imperial group’s centre of excellence for tubes manufacture, produced special centenary tubes to mark the occasion. The Trossingen factory employs 200 people and produces about 22 billion tubes a year – more than 40 per cent of the global tubes market. The Efka business was acquired by Imperial in 2000. Enditem