Essentra Filter Products Launches New Dual-filter

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter  08/04/2014

Essentra Filter Products has launched Dual Sensation™, a filter that enables a capsule segment to be combined within a multi segment filter.

In a press note announcing the new filter, Essentra said that it provided cigarette manufacturers with the flexibility to design products that delivered to their consumers flavour on demand and the benefits of either carbon or a distinctive look.

"With the global appetite for customization of cigarettes currently on the rise, Dual Sensation enables cigarette manufacturers to widen their product portfolio and satisfy this ever growing market segment," said divisional innovations director, Patrick Meredith.

Dual Sensation had been specifically designed by Essentra to provide consumers with unique taste, smell and visual differentiation possibilities, the press note said…

When Dual Sensation was combined with a carbon segment it could be used effectively to deliver flavour and smell on demand, while offering the taste enhancement properties of carbon, without compromising filtration properties or menthol yields. It also contributed to enhancing the overall smoking performance by preventing carbon from deactivating prior to reaching the end user. In addition, the carbon segment of the filter contributed to reducing vapour phase and semi-volatile components in mainstream smoke.

Alternatively, Dual Sensation enabled cigarette manufacturers to achieve differentiation by combining a capsule with visually distinctive segments such as Essentra's Combined Performance Superior (CPS) filter. In addition, Dual Sensation could be personalised further by loading it with a variety of different capsule flavours and colours.

'Manufactured with Essentra's state-of-the-art speciality capsule insertion machinery and featuring online inspection equipment, Dual Sensation helps to ensure capsule integrity and presence,' the press note said. Enditem