Mostly, the tobacco consumption is on the form of smoking. Earlier the cigarette filling was done manually, which is time-consuming and a tedious work! To meet the growing demand of cigarette in the market led to the evolution of the cigarette filling machines, which made the entire cigarette filling process easy and less daunting, thus increasing the mass production.
“The Global Tobacco Packaging market is poised to scale up during 2017-2027. The projection of the worth of the global cigarette market is estimated to reach a value of US$ 1,124 Billion by 2024; since the beginning of 2019, this sector is growing at a CAGR of nearly 4%.”
First Cigarette Filling Machine
“Earlier in the 9th century, the cigarettes were accessible in the form of reeds as well as smoking tubes. The first cigarette filling machine was developed later in the 1800s by Juan Nepomuceni Adorno.”
With time, cigarettes were made available as per the customer preferences in terms of different sizes, colors, flavors, and intensity.
Cigarette Manufacturing
A majority of the cigarettes are created with the help of re-constituted product of tobacco that includes recycled tobacco stems. The major raw materials that are required in cigarette manufacturing are:
- Tobacco leaves,
- Cut tobacco,
- Cigarette filter,
- Tipping paper,
- Cigarette paper,
- Whiteboard,
- aluminum laminated paper, and
- Glue.
As the cigarette manufacturers have come up with several flavored variants due to which the demand has surged over the last half-decade.
“As per a survey, the overall market size of tobacco packaging is projected to grow from USD 14.27 Billion in 2017 to USD 16.65 Billion by 2022.”
Such factors have pushed the cigarette filling machine manufacturers to evolve the designing process as well as the efficiency of the machine. The latest laser technology has-
- Fastened the entire production process,
- Reduced the scope of a faulty product, and
- Reduce the wastage of raw materials.
A cigarette is one of the most popular tobacco products which is consumed across the globe. The automated cigarette filling machines have been a major component which is fulfilling the growing demand of the cigarette timely.