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Packaging materials and paper notably use many resources and the processing can contribute to environmental degradation. Our guest is Liem Khe Fung, innovations director at BMJ (Bukit Maria Jaya) who discusses how his company is leading the way in managing resources and sustainability in its manufacturing processes.

Now that the masks have come off and and most countries have opened up again, and the tobacco industry— a notoriously travel-heavy industry — can take to the air again. Our podcast guest is Dr. Iqbal Lambat, CEO and president of Istanbul-based Star Agritech International, a medium-sized supplier of tobacco leaf and reconstituted tobacco. He’s a very avid traveler and will give insights into a hand...

Gory warnings and plain packaging have disrupted the normal production/distribution of tobacco products and to most accounts, they have been a total failure in their express goal in reducing tobacco consumption. Instead, plain packaging destroys branding and makes life much easier for counterfeiters. Our guest is Mike Ridgway, long time consumer packaged goods expert and current director of the Co...

Synthetic nicotine, used in new generation products, is produced in a lab and not from the tobacco plant itself, which - until now - provided a regulatory escape route for some products manufacturers. Now, FDA regulate e-cigarettes and similar products using synthetic nicotine the same as those using plant-derived nicotine. Our guest is George Cassels-Smith, the well known CEO of Tobacco Technolog...

Launching new style tobacco and vape products is getting much more complicating over the years with the ever-developing new rules, regulations, restrictions and and market barriers. Our guest in this podcast is Dr. Nveed Chaudhary, Chief Scientific and Regulatory Officer at Broughton, a consulting firm specializing in science and regulations, explaining that although product launches in the indust...

An overview of the challenges facing farmers and farming and what the industry and manufacturers are doing to help. Tobacco Asia talks with MERCEDES VAZQUEZ, the recently appointed c.e.o. of the International Tobacco Growers Association (ITGA), which, founded in 1984, is the global growers association whose core objectives focus on the sustainability of tobacco farmers and their communities.

Mark McQuillan, Managing Director of Nicobrand which is part of Contraf Nicotex Tobacco "Synthetic Nicotine: Uses/Development and is it a tobacco product!

KAMEL JABBOUR, director of ESCA, European Shisha Community Alliance “Shisha: Time to Clear the Air" A talk with KAMEL JABBOUR on hookah/shisha, the highly sociable tobacco product category to clear up the air on the myths and misconceptions on its health aspects, consumer appeal, ingredients, labeling requirements, and unfair taxation.

ERIC PIRAS, a veteran cigar marketer and purveyor in Hong Kong and China “Selling Cigars (and other Tobacco Products) into China" A talk with Eric Piras, long time Asia cigar expert formerly with Pacific Cigar, and Altadis and now with cigar venues in Hong Kong and a consultancy in China on cigars. An overview with a barebones structure on how — and if — this is possible and whether it is worth tr...

CECILIA KINDSTRAND ISAKSSON, director of public affairs, Swedish Match "Let's talk about SNUS" A talk with CECILIA KIRDSTRAND ISAKSSON, director, public affairs, Swedish Match on that company’s iconic and controversial snus products, which some call the original reduced risk tobacco product. What is the product? And if it is reduced risk, why is it illegal in the EU and other markets? What is bein...

HUGO AZINHEIRA, global innovation and marketing director at ESSENTRA "Upcoming EU Plastic Packaging Requirements and the Tobacco Business" A talk with HUGO AZINHEIRA, global innovation and marketing director at ESSENTRA, the leading global suppliers of specialty filters and scientific services for the tobacco industry. Filling you in on the EU Plastic Packaging Requirements and how this effects ci...

A talk with SIMON CLARK, director of the UK smoker’s lobby group FOREST (Freedom Organization for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) founded in 1979. We’ve seen indoor smoking bans adopted globally, then gory warnings reared their ugly heads and were adopted globally, then the plain packaging idea was planted in Australia and grew like fungus all over, and then taxes rising around the world tryin...