Puro-Thresh Tobacco Breakthrough At Granville Plant
A new process using Virginia tobaccos cured in Australia and overseas promises cleaner, better tasting cigarettes. From February 1 1966 certain brands adopt PURO-THRESH, a Granville Tobacco Processors trade mark. The Bundamba Queensland plant, over two years in operation, leads Australia in this advance.
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Australia
Granville Tobacco Processors Pty. Ltd
Europe
North America
Granville Tobacco Processors
Bundamba
Q’ld
World Tobacco Expert Praises Australian Clean Leaf Process
A North American tobacco expert lauds an Australian company for adopting a leaf cleaning process before maturation. He says it will be first in Australia and widely accepted worldwide, offering smokers advantages from cigarettes made with fully cleaned tobaccos.
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North America
Australia
New tipping and threshing push tobacco plants idle
Danville Virginia October 10 1965 several small tobacco processing plants remain idle as outmoded facilities lose ground to tipping and threshing lines. Industry leaders Leroy Parker and R B Bridgforth Jr note foreign buyers demand refined stemming and quality control suitable for export markets.
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Leroy Parker
Tobacco Association of the
United States
Parker
R. B. Bridgforth, Jr
Dibrell Brothers
Cleaner, Better Tasting Cigarettes Through Puro-Thresh
The PURO-THRESH process matures leaf without dust or contamination and dries each part at the right temperature. It preserves natural Virginia tobacco flavour, avoiding harshness or bitterness and yielding a smoother, better tasting cigarette.
Pure-Thresh Tobacco Maturing Process Claims
The text asserts Pure-Thresh removes dust and foreign matter before maturation, strips lamina to eliminate stems and woody parts, dries leaves at low temperatures to preserve cell structure and flavor, and allows the leaf to continue ripening across a 14 to 2 year period.
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Ernest Bunkhalter
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Danville Register
Virginia
U.S.A
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Granville Tobacco
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