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FILE NAME Kent KNT DATE 1952 May 23
DOC KNT003
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Meeting Minutes with Lorillard
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during the past two weeks They felt that we should have obtained
a technical man by this time that there was need of some devine to
prevent the crepe paper being stretched as it was unwound that no
uniform proper control system was in effect
cient and that the web was not
that supervision is not suffiThey felt that while they
had their own share connection with the
the difficulty that Kent cigarettes
of responsibilityresponsibility that the factors mentioned in
Bedford operation were also playing a part in was still being experienced with the draw of
It was also pointed out to Lorillard that while many of their
criticisms were justified and we had already recognized such de-
ficiencies in the Bedford operation that they should remember that
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they had marketed the cigarette mich sooner than we had thought
proper in their anxiety
to
to
get
the
jump on
their competitors
and
program progressed that we felt that the
had not
on as sound a
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basis as it would haveprogressed had we had the sole responsibility responsibility
been _ One of the results had
the need of the Bedford operation which
had not been desirable because we did not have our own employees
our own equipment our own supervisors or our own building and had to rely on a company procucing the material for us in collabora-
tion with us that no longer wished to produce filter material since
it meant refusing orders from their regular customers for their
own materials
starting June 9th We also pointed
prior that we had jointly jointly decided
picture and felt cal manman man
that we
that
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man
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1. Starting
immediately we are to roduce a web
would filtering weight weight but
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rontaining
rontaining
approximatel2y more asbestos
lower weight we
give a better draw and the
iency would be corrented
+ the audition of % asbestos
effic-
2. is felt that up to this time Schweitzer have not demonstrated
that they are
capable
of
supplying
a uniform crepe paper since the
indications
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better results
that
the
Inglish
quantities
and the Swiss Crete are
of each are to bettered bettered .
. inmediateliy nmediately
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is now planned that in July or August the cigarette
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will be
changed to a longer cigarette it was stressed that all
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problems should he solved longer that time
4. A conference was held on May
ourselves and Schweitzer
and they are willing to undertake to supply us with crepe paper
according to the specifications which we require
5. It is recognized that
conrection with carding in conjunction investigation is to be started tion of certain of synthetic
in substitu-
6. It was suggested that it may never
paper of the quality required
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method processes was method new
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method
method
method
of manufmacatunruinfg acmanutfactuuring ringmanufacturing manufacturing
so long
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be
as
possible to obtain
manufactured it surgested