China Tobacco Anhui Industry Co. Wins Approval for Establishing Key Laboratory

Source from:  TobaccoChina Oniline 09/26/2012

China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd. in east China"s Anhui Province has recently won approval by Anhui Provincial Administration of Science and Technology of its plan for the establishment of Anhui Provincial Tobacco Chemistry Key Laboratory – the first of its kind approved by the government for establishment in Anhui Province. According to the planning of the tobacco industry of Anhui Province for scientific-technological development and the direction of development of the relevant academic disciplines, Anhui Provincial Tobacco Chemistry Key Laboratory will focus its energy on the research of tobacco chemistry, with the research of analytical chemistry, combustion chemical and applied chemistry as orientations. It will give priority to the research of methods for pretreatment of aromatic substances of tobacco, research of methods for online analysis of cigarette smoke, construction of major elements and chemical composition of leaf tobacco and models of relevance of leaf tobacco burning characteristics and cigarette burning behavior, research of cigarette burning behavior and the interrelationship between the quality of cigarettes and the quantity of discharge of key harmful substances of the mainstream tobacco smoke, analysis and application of aromatic substances of tobacco, research of crucial technologies for reconstituted tobacco production, and research of support cigarette materials. Located in the premises of the Technology Center of China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd., the key laboratory was established in accordance with the requirement of the Notice on Issuing and Distributing the Methods for the Management of Construction and Operation of Anhui Provincial Tobacco Chemistry Key Laboratory, in light of the scientific-technological development environmental and capacity of the relevant enterprises, and on the basis of cooperation between China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd. and University of Science and Technology of China. The period of time for the construction of the laboratory will be two years. In the period of construction, the key laboratory will, through participation in the execution of major provincial- and ministerial-level projects, under great support extended by the State and the tobacco industry, and in light of the existence of hard technological problems faced in the analysis of tobacco and tobacco smoke chemical composition, combustion chemistry and applied chemistry, strengthen technological innovation, conduct research for reducing the content of tar and other harmful substances in tobacco products on a sustainable basis, and provide necessary theoretical and technological support for the development and utilization of tobacco chemistry analysis technologies, combustion mechanisms and tobacco materials. Meanwhile, it will strive to provide favorable support platforms for the development of human resources that are badly needed by the tobacco industry. Enditem