New Video Of Tin Equipment At Gawith

[simong]

Not gonna lie, I would cellar many pounds of that one

That was Ogdens St. Charlie, precursor to the more conservative St. Bruno. Had a 1lb tin of it once. Very moreish stuff, I found. Smoked it all up over one weekend & never slept for two weeks straight! Lol

 

[edger]

We are a tobacco manufacturer not a tin manufacturer (although we did look at the latter but costs were prohibitive). C&D are round tins. Everyone knows that round tins are much easier to get a better seal on due to the design. They are also much more expensive to produce, more difficult to label and do not pack and ship or display as well. It has all been considered.

Given the moans when taxes go up, when costs have to go up because of labour costs, packaging costs etc I very much doubt everyone would be happy if prices had to jump considerably because every tin was placed in a vacuum seal bag after tinning. And there would still be those moaning that the seal did not last......and how would this work for track and trace and labelling?

There are "natural tobaccos" and "chemical free" tobaccos. We sell one in the UK (hand rolling). It's a good seller BUT its very dry and dusty.

Whilst all these "expert" comments are great unless you are also an expert on track and trace requirements for the UK and Europe, labelling requirements, security feature requirements for HMRC and other tax authorities and exactly how labels have to go on and where and what can be used and what cannot be used in tobacco packaging, labelling etc.....then all the "make better tins", "put it in a bag" etc are pointless. There is far more to consider just to ensure that legally we are allowed to carry on producing and selling tobacco.

I buy my Coniston Cut Plug in the big bags! Tins are for “collectors” of tobacco who like to display them. Keep up the good work!

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I buy my Coniston Cut Plug in the big bags! Tins are for “collectors” of tobacco who like to display them. Keep up the good work!

Over here the big 500g bags cost £175, roughly $217. In the UK tins are all I can afford.

 

[gawithhoggarth]

I buy my Coniston Cut Plug in the big bags! Tins are for “collectors” of tobacco who like to display them. Keep up the good work!

But tins were never made for collecting. This is just some new trend that has come about in recent years. Tins were used so people could easily carry around their tobacco and slip the tin into their pocket or whatever and it stayed relatively fresh from production to smoking. And tobacco was just sold in tins in the 'old days' before pouches became a thing!

 

[Arthur Frayn]

Great videos. The machine at STG is new as I recall an older video from them back in 2010 or so showing the same line but with workers hand packing the tins.

That is fun to watch.