<strong>China: China Tobacco Guangxi Industrial Corp. Innovates Sorting of Raw Material</strong>

Source from:  TobaccoChina Online 10/22/2013

For a long time, the leaf tobacco raw material required by Zhen Long brand cigarette formulation is selected and picked out from re-drying tobacco sheets before cigarette manufacturing. This work is very complicated and the production efficiency is lower, and tobacco loss is larger.

In order to take full advantage of the raw material resources, and solve the contradiction between growing cigarette production and raw material sorting before production schedule, and to adapt to the large-scale production of Zhenlong brand, China Tobacco Guangxi Industrial Corp. innovated raw material sorting Ways to ensure the high quality of Zhenlong brand. At the beginning of 2013, China Tobacco Guangxi Industrial Corp. began to sort tobacco leaf from three grades leaf tobacco  in Qujing, Wenshan, Dali and Baoshan of Yunnan, moved the sorting work from before manufacturing cigarette to before re-drying leaf tobacco. In this way, it will reduce the complexity of sorting work, and reduce the lose by broken leaves, and improve the utilization rate of raw materials. Enditem