Cigarette packaging technology and equipment

At present, most of the internationally used cigarette packaging forms are soft-wrapped and flip-covered hard-box packaging, and rarely use vertical-wrapped packages that consume a lot of raw materials. The production capacity of widely used packaging units is 300-400 packs/minute (single-way <soft packs or hard packs>), while some developed countries use single-bag soft pack packs with a production capacity of 400-500 packs per minute. Italy G. D company's X-500 and SAAIB's Alfa packing units. These packaging units are equipped with a variety of inspection equipment and have a fault self-diagnosis function. The advanced models are also equipped with a microcomputer and a color display that can store and display the feed status and various production and management data.

Recently, some developed countries have also developed and promoted the use of high-speed cigarette packers with a production capacity of over 500 packs per minute. Some countries also use cigarette packs or (boxes) visible optical inspection systems on packaging lines to inspect finished cigarette packs. The form of the appearance, and can automatically remove defective packets (boxes), such as the United States RJ J. Reynolds and VIDEK company developed PAC1000 type and Italy G. D company developed optical finished cigarette packet inspection system.

At present, packaging machines used in cigarette manufacturing plants in many developed countries are equipped with case packers, and some also have cigarette case handling robots that can automatically place the cigarette case codes on pallet racks for shipment to finished cigarette warehouses.