| Cigarette Paper wraps the column of tobacco in a cigarette and can be made from
flax, wood or a combination of fibers. Certain properties such as basis weight, porosity,
opacity, tensile strength, texture and whiteness must be controlled to tight tolerances.
Many of these properties are critical to meeting runnability standards of the
high-speed production processes used by cigarette manufacturers. |
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| Plug Wrap Paper wraps the outer layer of the cigarette filter plug and holds
the filter material in cylindrical form. Highly porous plug wrap papers are used in the production
of filter-ventilated cigarettes. |
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| Reconstituted Tobacco Leaf (RTL) is a filler
that is blended with virgin tobacco in the tobacco rod of a cigarette to
cost-effectively utilize tobacco leaf by-products. The percent of RTL
used in the tobacco blend and the composition of the RTL are important
design considerations of the cigarette manufacturers. |
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| Tipping paper joins the filter element with the tobacco rod.
Tipping papers are made in white or a buff color and must be both printable and glueable
at high speeds in order to produce cigarettes that are distinctive in appearance.
Pre-perforated tipping papers are an important design element of filter-ventilated cigarettes. |
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