TOBACCO FACTORY "TUTUN-CTC" (Chişinău)

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The tobacco factory in Chisinau (now the joint-stock company “TUTUN-CTC”) descends from the workshop of filling cigarettes, created in 1924 at outskirts of Chisinau. It was the first enterprise of tobacco industry in Bessarabia.

The tobacco factory in Chisinau (now the joint-stock company “TUTUN-CTC”) descends from the workshop of filling cigarettes, created in 1924 at outskirts of Chisinau. It was the first enterprise of tobacco industry in Bessarabia. Straight after the Second World War the joint enterprise created the production of fermentation of tobacco and workshop of output of cigarettes in this place. The 193 tons of fermented tobacco and approximately 2 mln. of pieces of cigarettes were produced in 1945. Twenty years later, the fermentation factory with the productivity of 10 thousand tons/year was commissioned in 1966. Also, 10 years later – the cigarette production was lead to the power of 9 mlrd. of pieces of cigarettes after the reconstruction and the construction of the new workshop.

In 70-80 the tobacco factory in Chisinau became one of the biggest enterprises of ex-USSR and Eastern Europe.

During “Reconstruction” the tobacco factory kept its production potential and reconstructed in the same time.

In present the joint-stock company “TUTUN-CTC” is one of the up-to-the-minute enterprises of Republic of Moldova, which, possessing the real potential, and in spite of all existent problems looks with confidence in the future.

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