Nowadays the «GrosStems» company is a unique CIS company offering cigarette manufacturers high-quality cut rag blends: «American blend», «Virginia blend», «Oriental blend» according to various tastes, and what is more important, according to available cost. Following the above target we process varieties and grades of raw materials, including toasted Burley, of different origins: Brazil, Argentina, Zimbabwe, China, India, Turkey, Greece, Indonesia. Thanks to the high-tech equipment we produce blends so that tobacco factories could manufacture cigarettes of available price levels but of higher quality than those of other brands. The cut rag blend supplied by our company is expanded, besides, it incorporates 15-30% of expanded stem in itself. Cut rag output per 1 mln. cigarettes is significantly decreased.
So, the major benefits of tobacco blends processed by the «GrosStems» company are the following:
- economy that is achieved due to expanded cut rag inclusion, which increases cigarettes output per each kilo of cut rag blend.
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- ensured tar and nicotine amount due to the thoroughly selected and calculated amount of processed stems in a blend.
- various blends selection saving time and significant finances to create a blend.
Tobacco experts express an unanimous opinion about a trend to expand a range of tobacco products. Blending needs time and great efforts and can't be restricted to just a promotion. The target of promotion is to focus attention on new products, while a product reputation is gained only in the process of its consumption. It is the quality of a tobacco blend that is a key constituent of cigarette manufacturers' progress.
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Production of high-quality and cost-effective American-blended cigarettes requires an efficient and progressive blending and processing operation. The blending needs a well-coordinated effort in many steps:
- Determine the target and select component types and grades. More aromatic varieties are used to have a slow burning rate, while varieties with a higher filling value are used to possess worse taste characteristics. Each variety is selected to contribute a certain quality and value to the target blend.
- Develop ratios of the casings and flavours that complement the total blend
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- Determine smoking qualities: tar and nicotine deliveries, total sugars, filling value, burning rate, ash colour, taste, smell and impact according to customers' exact requirements and samples of cigarette paper and filters taking its ventilation, porosity, etc. into account.
- Compare the results of lab tests and smoke evaluation to improve a definite blend , conduct a small production run of the selected product with enough cigarettes for lab testing and sensory evaluation.
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Cut rag blends processing performed on the primary processing line of our company includes the following stages:
- Feeding leaf tobaccos through a vibratory conveyor to the conditioning cylinder where they are conditioned and cased.
- Filling moistened raw materials into one of the vacant blending boxes where the leaf is being blended and stored within 2-4 hours.
- Feeding raw materials through the pneumatic conveyor to the cutters KT-2.
- Feeding cut rag to high temperature drying unit HDT where it is re-conditioned, expanded and dried.
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- Cut rag cooling in a special cooling unit and its additional separation from dust.
- Flavouring cut rag blend in the flavouring cylinder.
- Blending and storage in blending silos of final products.
- Packing final products into C-48 cases with net weight from 80 till 100 kilos depending on a grade of a blend.
All the technological process operates automatically without interference of our personnel
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