DIET IN GENERAL

is a household name for high expansion within the tobacco industry. The DIET process itself was invented and patented as a joint venture between Airco DIET and Philip Morris and today all major players in the cigarette industry own DIET plants.
The DIET process is an effective tool for tar and nicotine reduction in cigarettes using tobacco laminar; it also reduces the bulk density of the cigarette blend which significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing with utility production costs of less than €1/kg of produced DIET tobacco. Today’s inclusion rate of DIET in premium cigarettes is therefore also 20% to 30%. DIET provides product designers and developers a true tool with which to achieve desired cigarette taste, quality and delivery properties.

The first DIET plants were built by Airco DIET 35 years ago in 1987 but these first plants where significantly different in design even though the basic process remains the same. The DIET plants have evolved radically over the years and there have been significant improvements introduced. A modern DIET plant has an uptime above 95% with a DIET dry weight yield above 98.5%. The utility requirements have at the same time been significantly lowered making the DIET plant even more profitable for the manufacture.