Papermaking process reconstituted tobacco (RTL) is a type of tobacco product that taking tobacco stems and fines as major raw material, and produced by utilizing papermaking technology and equipment. It’s one of the most widely-used tobacco products in the world. Main process can be described as follows: firstly, put tobacco raw material into water for soaking and get the soluble extracted from materials to separate soluble and insoluble; secondly, the insoluble will go through refining and paper machine for the developing of fiber base sheet while the soluble, namely extracts, will be sized back to base sheet after concentrated. Sized sheet will be dried and eventually form PM recon. |
- Technical advantages
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Through raw material consolidation, we can better manage the large variety of waste stem, fines, and scrap with the non-tobacco material to effectively broaden the utilization scope of raw material categories. By premixing, variation of raw materials from different origin, produced time and batches can be effectively reduced to guarantee stability of product quality. Meanwhile, with the concept of modularized raw material formula design, customized product formula can be developed based off different quality requirements of cigarettes.
The solubles and fibers of the raw material are separated during papermaking RTL production. The chemical components of the solubles can therefore be manually adjusted through targeted processing technology. This can eventually control the quality of RTL product. In particular, this can be utilized to selectively lower the harmful components in tobacco and give the product various functions and characteristics.
Based off different physical and chemical properties demands of the product, process adjustments can be made in extraction, refining, papermaking areas etc. to control the physiochemical features of the product and therefore satisfy different needs of cigarette manufacturers.
Since production process of paper-making RTL fully uses mature technology and equipment of paper industry as reference, the production process technology of PM RTL, compared to slurry process and rolling process, has much better capabilities. Large-scale production of PM RTL production process has been achieved by utilizing continuous and high efficient material processing.
Papermaking RTL production process technology is an integrated application platform, with paper making technology as the major part, and other multiple technologies such as tobacco, biology, chemistry, food, and material industry. Therefore, it possesses extremely broad space for technological development and product design, which provides fundamental guarantee to fulfill further function and characteristics requirement for PM RTL product of cigarette in the future.
Paper-making RTL production line is controlled by a complex DCS (Distributed Control System) system that interacts with SPC (Statistical Process Control) and QCS (Quality Control System) systems cooperatively. This DCS system monitors over 6000 I/O points within the processes. The SPC system collects the real-time data from the DCS in all areas and provides statistical analysis based on the data. The QCS system offers online scanning of the base sheet to the major quality specifications. Combined with the SPC’s statistical analysis and online scanning results, automatic adjustments and control to process can be accomplished. The automatic control systems provide strong support and guarantee to manufacturing. |
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As the domestic and foreign market require, our company has developed type traditional flue-cured type RTL product with a light aroma type, a thick aroma type and a middle aroma. We have also developed functional products with low carbon monoxide release amount, low harmful aspects products, and an international aroma type product. By utilizing prospective innovation technology to develop new products, the company is committed to fulfill the demands of different clients.
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So far, our company has built good cooperation relationship with ten-odd tobacco companies of China Industry. Our PM RTL products have been successfully applied to dozens of famous brands of cigarettes with more than 30 kinds of specifications. Our products can bring cigarette products new technological elements and make them more competitive in the market. Widely-acknowledged in tobacco industry, our products are utilized in first and second class of cigarettes by many cigarette manufacturers in China, and serve as a powerful representative for Chinese high quality RTL product.
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