A. Resources
- The staff of ISSCORP has over 100 years of cumulative experience
in buying and selling tobacco from leading tobacco-growing
countries, including USA, China, Brazil, India, Zimbabwe,
Italy and Canada.
- For almost 20 years, ISSCORP has been
supplying a wide range of tobacco types, including
flue-cured, burley, dark fire-cured, dark air-cured and sun-cured
as well as byproducts, including stems, scraps and fines.
- ISSCORP
has a long-term strategic alliance in many countries where
technical assistance in leaf grading and processing is provided
to insure that the grades are packed up to international
standard and according to client’s
specifications.
- In China, ISSCORP deals directly with
provincial factories and cooperates with the respective
export entities.
B. Origins & Types
- Flue-Cured Virginia: ISSCORP can
offer flue-cured through affiliated packers in major
tobacco regions of USA, China, Brazil, India, Italy and
Zimbabwe.
- Burley: ISSCORP can offer burley from USA, Malawi,
Brazil, Thailand, Italy, Greece, China and India.
- Dark Fire-Cured & Dark
Air-Cured: ISSCORP can offer dark fire-cured from USA
(Kentucky and Tennessee), Malawi, Italy and Canada.
C. Product Development
- In collaboration
with Fawky Abdallah Company’s expert
staff, ISSCORP can provide technical service in
formulating blends for American blended cigarettes
(ABC) and straight Virginia cigarettes (SVC) that
are technically balanced, cost-effective and with
maximum utilization of the local leaf supply of each
client/country.
- The service also
covers improvement of existing brands to bring them up
to international standard by developing new blending & processing
know-how.
- After extensive studies on leaf processing, what
is called High Performance Burley Casing and Toasting
Line was developed, which when used with the required
know-how, allows for specific amino-sugar reactions to
take place in order to acquire the desired Flavor Development
that improves the smoking qualities.
- After years of R&D work with leading
manufacturers of flavorings and leaf primary equipment manufacturers,
ISSCORP developed unique casing & flavoring formulae
and new leaf processing techniques for American blend cigarettes,
straight Virginia cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco
and specialty smoking products. This resulted in being
able to produce top quality smoking products while maximizing
the use of local tobaccos and manufacturing equipment
but with a small investment in new casings, flavorings
and leaf processing know-how. This approach to product
development proved to clients in several countries
that they could make a quality product without having to
pay for high priced leaf tobacco or expensive leaf processing
equipment.
- ISSCORP was actively involved in the development
of a technique for the flavor-enrichment of premium hand-made
cigars to protect the manufacturers against unexpected
shortages of superior quality wrapper, binder and filler
or simply to enable them to use lower priced cigar wrapper,
binder or filler.
- ISSCORP developed a new line of little cigars
that covers the regular version made of 100% natural
leaf and flavored versions that consist of Swiss Chocolate,
Vanilla Hazelnut, Sweet Cinnamon, Cool Mint, Roasted
Coffee, Mellow Pipe, Rum Bacardi, Amaretto, Scotch Whiskey
and Vintage Cognac.
- As the anti-smoking campaigns continue,
the US market for smokeless tobacco products (Chewing)
has been growing. ISSCORP developed a premium line
of chewing tobacco product that is packed in a new plastic
container instead of the conventional pouch and is made
in a traditional Wintergreen flavor, enriched with a
background spearmint note, along with new flavors, including
Apple, Cherry, Rum and Bourbon.
- After years of R&D work with leading
manufacturers of flavorings and leaf primary equipment
manufacturers, some unique casing and flavoring formulae
and new leaf processing techniques were developed for
smoking products, including American blend cigarettes,
straight Virginia cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and
specialty smoking products. This resulted in being able
to produce top quality smoking products while maximizing
the use of local tobaccos and manufacturing equipment
but with a small investment in new casings, flavorings
and leaf processing know-how. A new approach to product
development proved to clients in the US and several countries
that they can make a quality product without having to
pay for high priced leaf tobacco or expensive leaf processing
equipment.
D. The WILSON Cigarette
Fawky Abdallah Company was directly involved in the development
of WILSON, a premium d cigarette “In A Class Of Its
Own”, with the sales and marketing being assigned
to ISSCORP. For more derails, see the section about
WILSON cigarette. |