In the early days of the founding of New China, tobacco products were mainly made of tobacco and 70S plain cigarettes, and the packaging of tobacco was done by hand, with the trademark being a small square label. Cigarette equipment is mostly semi-automatic simple type flat pack cigarette machine and simple type semi-automatic straight pack packaging machine, one end of the small packet of trademark paper has a tear of about one centimeter long, which is left by the split needle that separates the cigarette label when packing straight packets.In the mid to late 1950s, the tobacco industry began to use the new Chinese flat pack cigarette machine, strip packages are completed by hand, strip packages of trademarks are affixed to the seals on the two sides. At that time, the trademark pattern design was simple, with few color sets and rough printing; simple moisture-proof paper was used to prevent moisture inside the sachet, and the shelf life was short.
In the mid-to-late 1950s, the tobacco industry began to implement public-private partnership, the people's government increased investment in the tobacco industry, the transformation of the new 81S filter cigarettes are very popular with consumers. At that time, the cigarette equipment to the new China cigarette machine supporting the clamp-type nozzle machine and simple straight packet packaging machine, small packets of inner wrapping paper using aluminum foil for moisture-proof packaging, so that the shelf life of the product growth. Printing technology has greatly improved, multi-color overprinting to make the product logo more beautiful.
In the 1960s, the national tobacco industry to implement the grand coalition, all cigarette production units are marked with "China Tobacco Industry Corporation", the factory name is printed on the seal or on the side of the trademark. the mid-1960s, most of the factory's technological transformation has been halted, the brand of cigarettes, many of which are based on the "Cultural Revolution", and the brand of cigarettes. The "Cultural Revolution" slogans, "a piece of red", "quotations" label appeared one after another.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, in the late 1970s, the country gradually implemented the policy of reform and opening up, and the tobacco industry began to introduce advanced foreign cigarette equipment, such as the MK8 cigarette machine unit produced in Britain and the AMF-3000 packing machine unit, which increased the production speed of a single machine from 1,000 cigarettes/minute to 3,000 cigarettes/minute. The production speed of a single machine has increased from 1,000 to 3,000 cigarettes/minute. At the same time, the domestic YJ13 packaging machine and other equipment has also been introduced, the automation level of cigarette production is constantly improving. For example, cigarette production from the cigarette machine, the mouthpiece machine separated into a unit (YJ14 cigarette unit) to complete; small packet packaging from straight packaging to horizontal packaging (from the shape of the label and the old cigarette label on the direction of the crease can be discerned); strip process from manual packaging to mechanized production, packaging process by the small packet machine, small packet of transparent machines, strip packet machine, strip packet of transparent machines (AMF3000 packaging) line production, initially realized by the small packet machine, small packet of transparent machines, strip packet of transparent machines (AMF3000 packaging unit) line production. machine), initially realizing the automation of packaging production.
In the printing of cigarette labels, with the application of color printing technology, cigarette label patterns become colorful. As it was a period of great union of cigarette production, the brands of various cigarette factories could exchange production with each other, so the same brand would be produced by several cigarette factories*** together. For example, the "Harvest" brand cigarettes produced by Guangzhou Cigarette Factory No. 1 could be seen on the labels produced by Guangzhou Cigarette Factory No. 1, Guangzhou Cigarette Factory No. 2, Meizhou Cigarette Factory and Guangzhou Cigarette Factory. Factory name labeling has also gradually returned to the front printing.
After the 1980s, the country fully implemented the policy of reform and opening up, and cigarette companies were in the forefront, and the pace of the introduction of equipment continued to accelerate. Cigarette machine from the UK's MK8 to MK95, super MK95 models, France's LOF3000, LOGA6000 to PROTOS models; packaging machine from the UK AMF3000 to Italy SASIB6000, GDX1, GDX2 type; machine speed from 3,000 / min to 10,000 / min.
Changes in packaging technology is changing rapidly. From the changes in the appearance of cigarette labels can be seen: soft packet horizontal cut corner trademark packaging is mainly for the AMF unit and SASIB packaging unit; soft packet horizontal right-angle trademark packaging is mainly for the GDX1, BE packaging unit, which is characterized by the separation of the trademark paper is used to separate the vacuum separation, the trademark paper without a tear. Hard box packaging mainly for domestic Tianjin YB41 packaging unit and GDX2 unit, etc.. With the introduction of complete sets of cigarette transport equipment, filter launchers, cartoning machines and other equipment, packaging methods are all applied to the horizontal package packaging and hard box packaging; cigarette machine and packaging machine production line, so that the process of cigarette production from the cigarette to the carton into the warehouse in one go, the process of cigarette production to achieve full automation. The cigarette industry has entered a period of rapid development.
In the design of cigarette packaging and decoration, the factories vigorously explore local themes, famous characters, folklore, geographic features, landscapes, forests, trees, flowers and birds, and other characteristics of the cultural design to the cigarette label, using a variety of overlay, laser, anti-counterfeiting and other technologies, to try to attract the attention of consumers, to capture the consumer market.
In the changes in the intrinsic quality of cigarettes, we can see that, with people's awareness of "smoking is hazardous to health" continues to strengthen the tar content of cigarettes in various cigarette factories, smoke nicotine are towards the direction of low-hazard development, from the same brand of cigarette labels in various periods of time can be seen on the above two indicators of the content of the downward trend, low-hazard cigarettes are loved by the people. Low-hazard cigarettes are loved by people.