Guangdong Golden Leaf Technology Development Co., Ltd (GD GL) was founded in 1999. It’s a high-tech enterprise with reconstituted tobacco leaf (RTL) as its major business. The technologies of natural plant raw material and agricultural by-product utilization serve as its core competencies.It’s a multifunctional enterprise integrated with modules such as scientific research, technology output, industrialization through its achievements, and investments & cooperation.
The company has invested 100 million RMB as registered capital and currently has 600 employees on its 390,000 square meters facility. It is a papermaking process RTL R&D base, which has been approved by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA). In Guangdong Province, it is also acknowledged as the RTL Engineering and Technological R&D Center, Enterprise R&D Center, High-tech Enterprise of Guangdong province, and the leading enterprise of Papermaking Process RTL of STMA.
GD GL first started its research in China on technology and equipment of PM Recon and utilization of new type tobacco product.Based on its research efforts, it successively built the first small scale pilot line, and first large-scale production line for paper-making RTL . GD GL has also expanded its research and technologies on other aspects in the tobacco industry. An air-laid process recon production line, a 300kg/hr Steam and Microwave Collaborated Stem Expansion (SMW) pilot line, and a 2,000 kg/hr SMW production line have also been developed, which have filled the technological blank of these fields in China.
As support for the industry in China, the company has also actively industrialized its core technology and innovative technologies by providing process design and technical support for the construction of seven other papermaking process RTL large-scale production lines.
It has also served as one of the companies to explore and develop new aspects of Expanded Stem Processing Technology. This is one of the major projects of the STMA, and we have carried out technical research with cigarette manufacturers for the expanded stem.
In 2011, the company has initiated a technological upgrading project for papermaking process RTL production line , which is listed as the annual major specialized project of PM Process RTL Production Line Technical Upgrading by STMA next year. In Mar. 2014, this project passed the acceptance inspection by experts of STMA for its international advanced level. It was granted the second award of S&T Advanced Prize by China Tobacco Corporation in Feb., 2015, which indicated that the PM recon manufacture technology of China has reached the international advanced level.
As the pioneer of the PM process RTL technology, the company has always taken the leadership role in technology innovation in the industry. Through the research and innovation of tobacco raw material control and functional product development, the company has developed products of various functions. Individual products with particular character, low tar product, low CO product, high filling power product etc, have been developed. Over years, based on the integration of different technologies, GD GL have provided customized and dedicated RTL product for many Chinese important cigarette manufacturers.
To provide a good support services for tobacco industry, GD GL has developed a new type of stem expansion processing technology and an air laid recon production technology. Both are with shortened processes, and low environmental impact.
The new stem expansion processing technology has greatly improved the plasticity of stem, filling power of stem strip, and opened up a new technical approach for comprehensive utilization of the stem. The air laid process recon product has high filling power, low harm, verisimilar tobacco aroma etc. What’s more, the company also carries out research on heat without burn technology for tobacco products.
In the future, with the enterprise vision of to be No.1, we will forge the company to be an international first class enterprise through continual efforts.