GOLDFLAKE , an ITC product. Review on Goldflake

GOLDFLAKE

An ITC product

This cigarette is the King in sales in India.

You can find gold flake addicts in all corners of India

North, South, East, West.

I purchased these cigarettes in all cities of India; they are produced on Job work basis

All over Hyderabad, in Cigarette Manufacture, ITC Company gives their material which is Tobacco Bags, Paper Rolls for Cigarette packing, Paper Rolls for Filter packing, Gums, Flavors to be mixed in with dry leaves of tobacco, Filter bends, each bend is cut into 6 pieces to be fixed with a cigarette.

I have seen during my college days a cigarette making machine, it was an educational tour arranged from my college to visit a manufacturing plant with modern machines. Unfortunately it was a cigarette manufacturing machine, I got talking to the worker there who was very helpful, he explained to me that their company is not owned by ITC but they are doing job work for ITC and they were manufacturing at that time GOLDFLAKE.

That is the day I got addicted to this cigarette, I am now trying to leave this bad and damage causing habit. But my many attempts have failed, I am still in the process but till I kick this habit, let me complete the menus of all cigarette brands mentioned here on mouth shut.

So I have got some more days to go with this habit, anyway I am not very proud of this. I advise all youngsters not to follow my example, but while we are living, breathing in this world we have to go thru the circles of life.

One such circle is SMOKING, while I am a smoker; let me tell you more about the spread of this thing, Tobacco was discovered by British people in Virginia in United States of America. Of course we Indians and Chinese knew about tobacco but we were not exporting people, we were always a content people to be happy living in our own villages, we never had the need to look at other parts of the world. India was that rich in flora and fauna.

Red Indians smoking pipes and Britishers discovering that this weed is very popular in LONDON started the spread of tobacco to western world and to India, Industrial Revolution bought about many machines and new ways of manufacturing cigarettes were invented and machines now do the job.

CIGRETTE MANUFACTURING MACHINE

Tobacco leaves are fed in a hopper, from there leaves travel down and they are grinded into fine cut particles and from there ground tobacco is fed into jets, these jets feed release the tobacco to long white paper being un rolled on the machine and this paper is automatically getting gum applied to its sides and there is a converter which folds the paper filled with tobacco into cylindrical shape and this

long cigarette travels a distance of 3 meters and from there it starts entering cutting section, the cutting is done in a length of 69 mm as programmed by the engineers and from there it goes onto the filter section and finally cigarettes roll out on the packing conveyor belts and they are hand picked there and put into a feeder of packing section.

The feeder wraps every 10, 20 cigarettes in aluminum foil and from there it is fed into unmade cigarette packet and it passes into gum applying section and folding section of the machine and wrapping section were it is wrapped by cellophane.

There are many more sections in a cigarette machine, like garniture section, where emblem is printed on the cigarette and many such functions. It is a very huge and big machine, every machine has an operator, 4 labors and 3 engineers are always there on each shift, they are run 24 hours a day because of the big demand. There are 3 shifts of productions between each shift there is a break of half hours, which is spent by maintenance staff to check the machines and do their job.

So I have come back to the flavor of GOLDFLAKE, its flavor is made by MAFATLAL group of Industries, its white starch with some chemicals which is mixed with tobacco to give us that flavor, other wise there is no flavor in natural plants except high quality land and low quality land.

Like we have Basmati Rice and Rice produced in the fields around my home, it all depends on the land and the kind of seed you put.

GOLDFLAKE has huge market in India, one successful brand ruling all of India since now 25 years.

This is the short story of GOLDFLAKE.