Sort tobacco leaves

Sort tobacco leaves according to colour and condition. Select the leaves with the best specifications for rolling cigars and for quality assurance. Sort tobacco leaves for manufacturing of different products such as pipe tobacco and chewing tobacco.

catalogue tobacco leaves
arrange tobacco leaves
separate tobacco leaves
categorise tobacco leaves
sorting tobacco leaves

skill/competence

sector-specific

Sort tobacco leaves is an essential skill of the following occupations:

Curing room worker: Curing room workers assist in the blending, aging, and fermenting of tobacco strips and stems for the production of cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff.
Leaf sorter: Leaf sorters analyse colour and condition of tobacco leaves in order to determine whether they should be used as cigar wrappers or binders. They select leaves without visible defects taking into account colour variations, tears, tar spots, tight grain, and sizes as per specifications. They fold wrapper leaves into bundles for stripping.
Cigarette making machine operator: Cigarette making machine operators tend cigarette-making machines to encase tobacco in continuous paper rolls followed by cutting cigarettes from roll. They place roll of cigarette paper on spindles and set monogram-printing devices to print brand name on cigarette paper at specified position.

Sort tobacco leaves is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.

References

1. Sort tobacco leaves – ESCO