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• National Tobacco Engages in Expansion Project 

The National Tobacco Company is undertaking expansion projects which will enable it to increase its productive capacity by 60%. It has also bought two modernized and computerized machines at a cost of 54 mln birr that will produce 10,000 pieces of cigarettes a minute and 7.5 mln a day. Formerly it had produced over 3 mln cigarettes a day.

In addition to the above machines, it has bought cigarette transfer machines at a cost of 6 mln birr and a filtering machine worth 7.8 mln birr.

At a press conference held on Thursday, W/ro Tiruwork Woldehanna, marketing and sales manager, said that currently the demand for tobacco is 4.4 bln pieces and from this National Tobacco has a capability of covering 2.6 bln cigarettes or 53%. 4.6% is imported and 42% enters the country through contraband means. This means contraband trade covered the greatest amount next to those produced legally. As a result, the enterprise has introduced a new brand, "delight" cigarette, that will help to reduce contraband ones.

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