In the 1980s, aluminum foil paper as cigarette lining paper mainly includes calendered aluminum foil aluminum foil and aluminized paper.
Today, laminated aluminum foil paper has become a promising material with advantages of high barrier to light, gas and water and corrosion resistance. The material will not be any deformed when the temperature changes rapidly.
Recently, the amount of vacuum aluminized paper is gradually increasing in China domestic market. The principle is that metal aluminum is continuously heated and evaporated under a vacuum circumference. The metal vapor is condensed and deposited to form an extremely thin aluminum film on a continuous substrate. The aluminum film features thin and uniform, good optical effect, good shielding effect and reflection effect on light and ultraviolet light, etc., which can effectively prevent the light from aging on the contents of the cut tobacco. Compared with the calendered aluminum foil, one of the major advantages is that the aluminum consumption is small and the thickness of aluminum film is only 0.02 to 0.03 microns while the thickness of rolled aluminum foil 7 to 8 microns. It brings significant economic benefits.
Global manufacturers also do a lot of work in developing new cigarette lining paper. British American Tobacco is using vacuum aluminized paper as cigarette packet lining packaging material for its brand. According to statistics, at present, 70% of British cigarettes, 50% Of German cigarettes are adapting cigarettes lining paper with coated aluminum. In order to step up the protection of the products, Armenian manufacturers used double-sided printed and lacquered foil sheet linings. A company in Indonesia has introduced a metallized material to replace the original multi-layer laminating foil paper, which has an aluminum foil thickness of only 0.04 micron.
