Tobacco

Offering comprehensive analysis at every stage of production, from field to final product.

There are thousands of tobacco products available, catering to a variety tastes. Cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobaccos can range from mild to strong. Pipe tobaccos, and products like beedi, are often infused with whisky, rum, cherry, strawberry and other flavors to enhance the smoking experience. Smokeless tobaccos are also just as abundant. And the industry itself accounts for hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

To keep up with such production volumes, modern suppliers and manufacturers of this industry have relied on Astoria-Pacific’s analyzers to test for analytes that could affect the quality, taste, burn and safety of their products. For instance, levels of Reducing Sugars in the tobacco leaf will not only affect the taste but also how mild or strong a cigarette will be. Moreover, before most products are manufactured, tobacco leaf must be blended so that levels of constituents like Nicotine do not exceed limits established by the manufacturer. Therefore by testing the leaf prior to blending, a manufacturer will know which lots of leaf to blend together for the production of a particular brand.

Naturally, tests for Reducing Sugars and Nicotine are just a couple of examples of why tobacco laboratories use the Astoria and Astoria2 Analyzers. And over the decades, Astoria-Pacific International has helped its clients monitor these tests quickly and accurately, thereby ensuring that a consistent, quality product is available.

Tobacco Analysis Brochure