Next year, Hauni plans to launch Prolab, a cigarette making line designed for the tobacco industry’s R&D departments. Tobacco companies spend considerable amounts of time and money on developing new products. Sooner Read More
Hauni Maschinenbau is introducing a new all-automatic high-bay storage system that allows cigarette makers to separate filter making from the cigarette production process. Apart from maximizing machine utilization, the system’s space-saving storage unit keeps Read More
The International Tobacco Growers’ Association (ITGA), representing more than 30 million tobacco farmers worldwide, on Wednesday reacted with outrage to the publication of new proposals to regulate tobacco farming by the World Health Organization’s Framework Read More
UNITAB, which represents nearly 85,000 tobacco growers acrossEurope, is questioning the EU’s commitment to preserving jobs following leaks about the European Commission’s proposals for the revision of its tobacco products directive. Francois Vedel, UNITAB’Read More
The bans on various oral tobacco-containing products, such as gutkha, which have now spread to at least 11 Indian states, are likely to be ‘positive’ for cigarette companies, according to a story in The Times of Read More
Prince Edward Island’s courts could be the next battleground forCanada’s tobacco companies after the provincial government filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for health care costs associated with alleged tobacco-related disease, according to a Read More
Imperial Tobacco says that its business inAustraliais helping to tackle youth smoking with an initiative to remind retailers of the rules that are in place to avoid underage sales. In a note posted on its Read More
Sales of low-tar cigarettes inChinaduring the first half of this year reached a record high of 153.785 billion, up by 86.39 billion on sales during the first half of 2011. Sales of low-tar cigarettes, defined as having deliveries Read More
Hungary’s parliament on Tuesday passed a law that establishes a state monopoly for the retail sale of tobacco products from July 1, 2013, according to a realdeal.hu story. The bill, submitted by the ruling Fidesz Read More
India’s former prime minister, H D Deve Gowda, yesterday appealed to tobacco growers in Karnataka not to yield to pressure from merchants and resort to distress sales of their leaf, according to a Deccan Read More
