SWM - Engineered For Tomorrow

Cigar Applications
Hand-made cigar making has always been considered something of an art, where the quality of components, the skill of the maker and appearance say much about the finished product. It's no different in the machine-made cigar industry, where high-speed equipment creates cigars that have carefully designed characteristics and attributes. Our ability to provide quality materials, tailored to manufacturers' specific requirements, is one of our most important core competencies.

We are the leading independent producer of cigar wrappers and binders.

Modern day machine-made cigars consist of a filler-which makes up the bulk of the cigar-a binder, and an outer wrap called a wrapper which gives the cigar its distinctive appearance. As the industry's premier supplier of premium wrappers and binders made from Reconstituted Tobacco, we play a vital role because our products offer tobacco manufacturers significant advantages over competitive offerings; they are better by design.

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Superior Performance

As any tobacco manufacturer will tell you, moisture can be tobacco's worst enemy. High moisture content can lead to mold growth and ruined product. It also calls for more complicated storage requirements-such as drying or refrigeration-and the costs associated with them.

Wrappers and binders with high moisture levels can also cost more because tobacco manufacturers are paying for the non-tobacco ingredients that create those excess moisture levels. High moisture content can also cause reduced bobbin quality in terms of a loose wind. This results in less meterage per bobbin, thus more frequent changes on the cigar making machine and a loss of production efficiency.

In contrast, our cigar wrappers and binders don't create problems-they solve them. Their lower moisture levels provide excellent storage stability, with greatly reduced threat of mold growth or the need for refrigeration or heat.

They're stronger, too, enabling manufacturers to run them on manufacturing equipment at higher, more efficient production speeds. With more meters of product in any given diameter, they offer longer production runs without manual intervention, a significant efficiency advantage.

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Quality and Content Control

Because our cigar wrappers and binders do not require additives to bind together, they meet the standard classification of tobacco content to qualify as cigars in the various countries around the globe. Their consistency and uniformity are not only conducive to optimized manufacturing, their tobacco content is proven and demonstrable via analytical testing methods. We even offer Certification of their classification.

Our wrappers and binders permit product designers to specify exactly what product characteristics they want, to satisfy the demands of specific market segments. For example, we can adjust color via computer. We can provide a range of basis weights. And all our wrappers and binders have the advantage of natural porosity. So we can offer a controllable burn rate by simply adjusting the blend.

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