Hauni’s new high-speed C48 unpacking station, the TH, is efficient, dependable and flexible, with an availability rating of close to 100 per cent, according to a company press note. ‘This new linear-axis unpacking station is Read More
The Pan African Tobacco Group’s founder, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa, will retire after a 52-year career, passing along the management of his companies to his sons and son-in-law. Paul Nkwaya, Ayabatwa’s eldest son, Read More
NewCo has purchased a tobacco expansion facility from Airco Diet. The line will be installed in Hungary and is expected to begin processing in early 2014.Read More
Hauni Maschinenbau has opened an office in Izmir, Turkey. Led by Managing Director Baris Ulus, the new office offers customers access to a team of sales, service and technical professionals. Before joining Hauni in July 2012, Read More
The tobacco commentator, Christopher E. Bickers, has warned of a looming shortage of barns to cure the US’ 2013 crop. In the latest issue of his Tobacco Farmer Newsletter, Bickers says that the situation is especially Read More
People carrying more than the permitted amount of cigarettes and alcohol when they fly into Taiwan no longer face the possibility of a prison sentence, according to a story in the Taiwanese edition of The Read More
Duty-paid cigarette sales in Spain during the first 11 months of 2012, at 2.482 billion packs, were down by 10.1 per cent on those of the first eleven months of 2011, according to a Cinco Días story quoting data Read More
New measures introduced by Spainto clamp down on ‘low-level cigarette smuggling’ from Gibraltarhave come into force, according to a story in the Gibraltar Chronicle. The measures cut existing tobacco allowances for frontier workers and residents Read More
A ‘death clock’ displaying the number of people said by an anti-tobacco campaigning organization to be dying in Bangladesh of tobacco related diseases has gone up in Dhaka’s Bijoy Sharani area. The first of Read More
Award for Imperial Tobacco’s training programs in Slovenia Imperial Tobacco has received an award for the quality and level of training provided for its people inSlovenia. The Top 10 Award recognises those companies that take Read More