Cigarette Tube Maker

Molins MK8/TM120-ATM Cigarette Tube Manufacturing Machine

This machine, built on the Molins MK8 chassis, is designed to produce 84 mm long, 8.2 mm diameter

cigarette tubes with a 15 mm acetate filter. Machine Functionality Description:

• Preparing a 15 mm long filter rod section (90 mm/6 = 15 mm)

• Gluing a 20-24 mm long cork section

• Forming a cigarette tube web with a glued-in filter

• Final cutting to 84 mm

• Transferring finished cigarette tubes to the manual collection track with a semi-automatic loading

system for 500-piece individual packages

Production Materials:

• Acetate filters, diameter 8.1-8.2 mm, 90 mm rod

• Cigarette paper CU30-50, width 28 mm, 6000 m winding, 120 mm bobbin tube

• Cork wrapper, width 27 mm, 4000 m winding, 70 mm tube

Machine Technical Specifications :

• Base body – Molins MK8

• Filter outlet assembly – filter head – Molins PA8, 90mm filter rod divided into 3 segments, filter

tube length – 15mm

• Cork cutting gluing assembly – mechanical drum system that lubricates and gluing cork cuttings to

the cigarette paper before forming a roll/web of cigarette tubes

• Outfeed assembly – three-entry ejector with a W40 outfeed drum that places tubes in two rows on

a 2m manual outfeed belt

• Output: Vmax 168 m/min, i.e. 2,000 tubes/min

• Paper gluing: Kaymich gravity gluing device

• Filter gluing: HHS non-contact gluing device

• Cork wrap: 50mm x 26.5mm cork wrap cutting

• Brand logo printing: Single-color contact printer

• Machine dimensions: length 3.5 m

width 1.8 m

height 2.4 m

weight 2,100 kg

• Compressed air requirement: 1.0 m³/h, pressure 6 bar