As global tobacco control policies continue to advance, and as more and more people become aware of the health hazards of smoking, new tobacco products such as "e-cigarettes" have entered the public eye.

However, the e-cigarette industry has "gone off the rails" in its development over the years, even marketing with elements such as "sweetness" and "fashion" to induce non-smokers and minors to smoke, infringing on the physical and mental health of minors. This is harmful to the physical and mental health of minors.

With the introduction of the new "sweetening" regulations for e-cigarettes, the development of heated, non-combustible tobacco products based on real tobacco is imminent.

Typically, traditional cigarettes can reach temperatures of up to 800 degrees when smoked, with more than 200 harmful substances produced in the 370°C to 600°C range.

Heat-not-burn, or HNB for short, is a 'low-temperature cigarette' designed with 'heat-not-burn' technology.

The HNB works at a controlled temperature of 250-350 degrees, which allows the tobacco in the special cartridges to be heated just enough to give off the flavour and smell of tobacco. At the same time, the harmful substances are reduced by 90% compared to conventional tobacco.

The world first! Efficiency and intelligence in one

The HNB is divided into two parts: the cartridge and the tobacco. In the cartridge process, the cooling section is one of the core components of the product, and the hollow tube cooling technology is now widely used by many tobacco manufacturers.

This means that a hollow tube is inserted into the cartridge as a cooling section, with holes in the hollow tube to allow air to be introduced for cooling.

For the HNB process, HGTECH has introduced the world's first hollow tube laser perforation workstation, which can be used to laser perforate the hollow tube of HNB cartridges to effectively reduce the tar content and increase the cooling efficiency. The size, shape and accuracy of the perforation can be controlled.

Hollow tube laser perforation intelligent workstation

Equipment advantages:

• Self-designed feeding structure, from feeding, punching, testing and discharging, the whole process is completed automatically.
• The production efficiency can reach 2000 pcs/min, which is seamlessly connected with the efficiency of cigarette machine (corresponding to the output of cigarette cartridges can reach 12000 pcs/min).
• The system performance is stable and reliable, ensuring high quality and quantity production over a long period of time.
• In addition, HGTECH perforation technology can also be used to perforate cigarette binding paper at efficiencies of up to 1000 m/min.

Perforating equipment for cigarette binding paper

Compared to tobacco flakes, improved filters and electrostatic perforation, laser perforation of jointed paper is the most cost-effective and controllable solution.

HGTECH can also be perfectly adapted to other production needs of the tobacco industry, providing intelligent and total solutions. For example: e-cigarette diaphragm cutting, varnish removal, vape marking, vape safety specification marking, packet traceability QR code marking, etc. helping to standardise the development of the tobacco industry!

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