AGIO TOBACCO PROCESSING CO PVT LTD

Agio has had a factory in Sri Lanka since 1985. The more than 1,500 people who work here process the tobacco that will be used as binder and wrapper leaves. The bales of raw tobacco are delivered to our factory in Sri Lanka straight from plantations in countries such as Indonesia, Brazil and Ecuador.

Before the raw tobacco can be processed, it has to be moistened to make the leaves soft and pliable. The leaves are then sorted according to length, colour and flawlessness and binder and wrapper strips are cut from the sorted tobacco. Different shaped strips are cut for each model of cigar. The cut strips are placed on a carrier material and rolled into tobacco coils that are shipped to our factory in Westerlo as semi-finished products.