From James Albert Bonsack’s cigarette rolling machine, patented in 1881m to Hauni’s Protos-M4 14,000 cpm, cigarette making machinery is one of the big ticket items for tobacco manufacturers worldwide. And the level of sophistication required to produce such equipment means only the top, most well known companies in the industry are involved. Below are a select group of those companies.
Changde Tobacco Machinery Co., Ltd.,
No. 99 Changgeng Road, Wuling District
Changde, Hunan Prov.
China 415000
Fax: + 86 736 7152666
Changde Tobacco Machinery Co Ltd., founded in 1969, is a large state-owned enterprise mainly engaged in manufacturing and selling tobacco machinery products, and is a sub-company of China Tobacco Machinery (Group) Corp. Ltd. The company was one of the earliest enterprises to develop and manufacture tobacco machines, and now has production facilities covering over 155,000 sqm with 1,100 employees (400 of which are professional technicians), and total assets of RMB1,550 million.
The company’s major products for export include: Model ZJ17 (7,000cpm); Model ZJ112 (10,000cpm) Cigarette Making and Filter Assembling Groups; Model ZF12A Cigarette Storing And Transferring System; Model YF13 Cigarette Storing and Transferring Device; Model YF171A Filter Rod Storing and Transferring Device; Model YF27B Filter Rod Pneumatic Transferring Device; Model YF14 Cigarette Storing And Transferring System; and so on. Among these products, Model ZJ17, ZJ112, YF13, and ZF12A have CE certification.
The production capacity is 200 sets of new machines per year. The company provides customers with the perfect service of rebuilding and overhaul for tobacco machines, and with qualified spare parts, of which the reliability has reached the advanced international standard. The company’s home market coverage is at 97.9% with equipment placed at 95 out of a total 97 factories in China. More than 20 sets of the dominant product – Model ZJ17 – have been exported to Indonesia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other areas. In China, the average working efficiency of ZJ17 at the end user’s site is 97.49%, and that of ZJ112 is 96.71%, far exceeding the designed standard of 85%. All equipment has a one-year quality guarantee and technicians are available to go to the end-users to offer technical support and on-site training.
With a comprehensive analysis database of customers, specialized product R&D capability, keen-witted marketing team, and a sound marketing system, Changde Tobacco Machinery Co., Ltd. is good at catching the point of customers’ requirement sand fully meeting their individual demands. With relied-upon, professional, finely-processed and advanced products and service, Change Tobacco Machinery Co will grow into an internationally renowned tobacco machinery manufacturer and service provider.
Contacts:
Kevin Shaw: Director of International Sales Dept.
Tel: +86 736 7152788. Email xchcmf@sina.com, sale@ccdtm.com
Peter Jiang: Sales Representative for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan,
Southeast Asia, Australia, and Africa. Tel +86 736 7178770, Email: jiangzt@ccdtm.com
Tina Ding: Sales Representative for South Asia, West Asia,
Middle Asia, Europe, and South America. Tel: +86 736 7152625.
Email: tina@ccdtm.com
Angela Lin: Sales Representative for North Asia, East Asia,
North America & Central America, Tel +86 736 7152702.
Email linxr@ccdtm.com
Molins Tobacco Machinery
A1 Regent Park, Summerleys Road
Princes Risborough HP27 9LE
United Kingdom
Tel +44 1844 276600, Fax +44 1844 276730
Email: mtm@molins.com, www.molins.com
Xuchang Tobacco Machinery Co., Ltd.
No. 6 Yongchang Road, Xuchang, Henan Province, 461000, China
Phone: +86 3743266963, Phone2: +86 3743266689
Fax: +86 3743266977
Email: yftyc@vip.sina.com, www.xcyj.com
ITM Group
Constructieweg 45
8263 BC Kampen
Netherlands
Tel +31 38 3766230, Fax +31 38 3766231
Email: info.nl@itmgroup.eu, www.itmgroup.eu
Makepak International
WBC House, High Holburn Road
Ripley, Derbyshire DE5 3NW
United Kingdom
Tel +44 1773 609283
Email: peter@makepakint.com, www.makepakint.com
FOCKE & CO. (GmbH & Co. KG)
Siemensstrasse 10
27283 Verden
Germany
Tel +49 4231 891-0
Email: sales@focke.de, www.focke.de
Colin Mear Engineering Ltd
Combe Wood, Combe St Nicholas
Chard TA20 3NL
United Kingdom
Tel +44 460 269500, Fax +44 460 269550
Email: cme@cme-ltd.com, www.cme-ltd.com
G.D S.p.A.
Via Battindarno, 91
40133 Bologna - Italy
Tel. +39 051 6474111
Fax +39 051 6474333
e-mail: sales@gidi.it
internet: www.gidi.it
G.D, a leading supplier for tobacco industry with outstanding equipment and services for cigarette make-pack, filter production, special projects and OTP.
More than 90s years of experience have been driven by innovation and flexibility. The market-driven research has led G.D to create new and technologically advanced solutions serving today’s tobacco industry:
• Complete lines for high-speed cigarette making and packing, including 121P-H1000-W1000-BV and 121P-S1000-W1000-BV, which produce 20 thousand cigarettes per minute, combining remarkable flexibility with excellent finished-product quality.
• Lines for standard filter and special filter production including filter with capsule, thread, charcoal, NWA and double plug wrap: DF10 with a production capacity of up to 10 thousand rods per minute and DF6, a single rod filter maker with extremely high level of flexibility.
• Lines for filter rods combining: FC8 producing 8 thousand filter rods per minute can combine up to 5 different base rods.
• Lines for special products – filters, cigarettes, packets.
• Lines for next generation products: multi-segment Heat Not Burn, liquid based e-cig.
• Lines for other tobacco products (OTP).
G.D is one of the international companies forming the COESIA group and is headquartered in Bologna, Italy with 12 branches around the world and more than 2,500 highly qualified professionals.
SASIB S.p.A.
Via G. Di Vittorio, 21/b
40013 Castel Maggiore (Bologna)
Phone +39 051 632 78 87
Fax +39 632 77 34
e-mail: sales@sasib.com
Internet: www.sasib.com
SASIB provides innovative solutions for cigarette making-packing, filter tube production, OTP, custom tailored solutions. Since SASIB joined the Coesia group has set up a technological upgrading and renewal program for its machine range launching a series of new products.
Within the newly designed machinery SMK represents a cigarette maker with the highest technological content on the market for low and medium-speed segments.
It can produce up to 8,500 cigarettes per minute and fully complies with the high quality and flexibility standard required by the current markets thus becoming the leader in this production speed segment.
SFT is the make-pack line for filter tube manufacturing, offering great flexibility and capability to produce all the main formats demanded by the market, creating filter tubes of varying lengths and diameters and in packs of different format and dimensions. An efficient process cycle enhances ergonomics and reduces the space needed in the production layout at customer facilities.
Recent investment in engineering and technology has opened new market opportunities including in ME and UAE areas where SASIB achieved sales double-digit growth in 2014.
Hauni Maschinenbau AG
Hauni is known worldwide as the top supplier of technologies and solutions for tobacco processing, filter and cigarette production. Hauni is a competent partner for its customers, wherever they are located, offering first-class service and comprehensive expertise.
Hauni Maschinenbau AG
Kurt-A.-Körber-Chaussee 8-32, 21033 Hamburg, Germany
Tel +49 40 72 50-01; Fax +49 40 72 50-21 09
Decouflé s.a.r.l.
With over 150 years of leading innovation, Decouflé has gained a reputation through its long tradition of designing and producing cigarette makers. The company also offers access to high technology in cigarette tube, cigarillo and cigar makers, and masters solutions for special products.
Decouflé s.a.r.l.
2, Avenue du Président François Mitterrand
91385 Chilly-Mazarin Cedex, France
Tel +33 169 10 70 00; Fax +33 1 69 09 61 00