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Wise - The Intelligent Snus

Wise has changed its name to Oomph - its the same snus just a different name.

Wise portion snus contains nicotine but is purified from undesirable constituents in the finnished product. Among these are nitrosamines that can cause cancer. This is why Wise snus can be called a purified.

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Skruf - The Strong Snus

Skruf snus is a top quality snus product that carries the highest quality regarding content, manufacturing and packing. It's aimed for the conscious people with high expectations on quality and design.

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Ljunglöfs Ettan

If Beethoven used snus, he could have put in a pinch of a snus that you still can buy in a store near you (in Sweden). Ljunglöfs Ettan celebrates it's 180th anniversary and is one of Swedens oldest still active brands!

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Wise the Purified Snus

Wise portion snus contains nicotine but is purified from undesirable constituents in the finnished product. Among these are nitrosamines that can cause cancer.

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Nick and Johnny East & West

Nick (& Johnny) is an exciting snus in a brand that doesn’t relate to any other. Nick and Johnny is a snus experience for those who are young in the mind and independent and would like to go their own ways.

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1847 by Philip Morris - Exclusive Snus

With Rockers snus expertise and Philip Morris influence in the tobacco industry world wide, they belive that the 1847 snus will measure up to the snus users expectations.

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Catch - The Non-traditional Snus

Many of the Catch users has high requirements when it comes to both flavour and the “mouth feeling” of the product. Catch is a big success and is now available in many different variations.

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Elixyr - High Quality Snus with Low Price

Despite the low prices on their products contain only first class tobacco. Rebel Tobacco offer consumers products to a low price without lowering the quality.

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Gotlanssnus - The Island Snus

Gotlandssnus is building on three generations of snus experience, a solid requirement when you want to make good snus. The first snus on Gotland was produced in 1741.

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Grovsnus - The Coarse Snus

Grovsnus is nr 3 in size among the snus brands in Sweden. This coarse snus has it's origin from 19th century Norrland (northern parts of Sweden), were it was first made.

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Gustavus Snus

Gustavus is the latin form of Gustav. This form of the name is usually regarded as a first name and was given to a number of Swedish kings. A snus with an aroma that is a mixture of flowers, sweetness and fresh citrus.

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Göteborgs Prima Fint - Prime Loose Snus

Prima Fint is only available as loose snus. Prima Fint is a fine ground loose snus with a very mild, slightly sweet and with unseasoned tobacco flavour. It was launched back in 1919.

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Göteborgs Rapé - The Natural Snus

Göteborgs Rapé has become more popular during the last few years. The explanations for that are many, one is that it's because rapé was one of the first white portion snus kinds.

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Jakobsson's - Family Tradition Passed On

My family was already during the 19th century, snus connoisseurs & great-grandfather Jakob was well known for his special snus. It was as evident then as it's today that Jakobsson’s Snus tastes as snus should taste.

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Knox - Low Price Snus

Knox is a top quality snus product with a low price, it carries the highest quality regarding content, manufacturing and packing. It's aimed for the conscious people with high expectations on quality and design.

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Kronan - The Lowprice Snus

Swedish Match wanted to offer the snus users a quality snus with a lower price, that's how Kronan was born. Kronan is the largest amoung the lowprice brands on the swedish market.

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Level & L.D - Smart Price Snus

L.D original was launched in 2005 as economic snus with good quality and Level was launched in 2006 as a top quality smart price snus. Both L.D and Level snus is made by the same manufature.

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Lucky Strike - Smokeless Tobacco Snus

Lucky Strike was launched in 1871 as a cigaret brand, and is one of the oldest and most iconic trademarks in the world. It’s a premium brand sold in more than 80 countries.

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Nick and Johnny - Powerful Snus

Nick and Johnny Original was first released in Norway 2006, were it became popular very fast. About a year later it was launched in Sweden. Nick and Johnny contains about 40% more nicotine then traditional snus products.

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Offroad - The Danish Snus

The use of snus goes back several hundred years and is rich in the traditions that V2 Tobacco wishes to preserve. Our production uses traditional Swedish methods for making snus.

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Probe Whiskey

Snus with mild tobacco flavour, a distinctive whiskey aroma, and slight smokeiness. The loose snus was launched in 2001 and the portion snus back in 1994.

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Röda Lacket - The Rebel

Röda Lacket was launched in 1850 by Petter Swartz Snusfactory. The most popular days for Röda Lacket was probably during the youth rebellion in 1968. Maybe the red color had something to do with that.

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Snus from Fiedler & Lundgren

The Fiedler & Lundgren company was founded in 1835, but its history started half a century earlier. In 1783, master tailor Samuel Fiedler applied to the Gothenburg city authorities for permission to start producing snus.

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The Phantom of Snus

V2 Tobacco believes that snus is a highly enjoyable and sophisticated product, full of the varied taste and aroma from the natural freshness of fragrant herbs and spices.

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The Swedish Premium Snus

Taboca AS was established in 2004 with the sole object of making Swedish snus of the highest quality. They wanted to give Swedish, Norwegian and American customers a premium quality snus alternative.

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Tre Ankare - Swedens Oldest Portionsnus

Tre Ankare was the first portion snus that Swedish Match ever launched, it was introduced back in 1977. It was launched as a regular portion snus, and later changed it into a white portion snus instead.

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General - Swedens most popular snus brand

The name General has nothing to do with the military as one might think. It originates from the manufactures old name for their “general” snus, the snus that was sold with out a name.

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Quality from seed to can

Composition

Swedish Snus by GothiaTek® is made from selected leaf tobaccos, salts, humectants and flavour additives. Snus is regulated as a food substance in Sweden. Only food approved additives are used. The manufacturing is performed in premises which comply with food standards.

Tobacco

Swedish snus by GothiaTek® is made from mainly air cured tobaccos. Traditionally fire-cured tobacco used to be the major ingredient, but this has changed in the last decade. Today, Swedish snus by GothiaTek® does not contain fire-cured tobacco.

Tobacco is purchased from North and South America, Asia and also from a few countries in Africa and Europe.

Tobacco quality is essential for the Snus products to conform with the GothiaTek® Standard. All components that are not desired in the Snus products come with the tobacco.

The GothiaTek® Standard requires a systematic control of the tobacco chemistry. After many decades of research we have designed a growing and curing regime that satisfies the GothiaTek® Standard.

Around the world tobacco is now grown according to our instructions. However, some tobacco is still purchased on traditional tobacco markets.

In order to assure the quality of the tobacco we intend to buy we have designed an early warning system.

Tobacco samples are taken already in the farmers´ barns and sent to laboratories for analysis. So, when we buy the tobacco we know its chemistry and we can refrain from buying tobacco that does not meet the requirements of the GothiaTek® Standard.

Additives

When making Swedish Snus by GothiaTek® the main ingredients except for tobacco are water, salt (table salt) and sodium carbonate. Flavour additives and humectants are also used.

Salt is added mainly for its effect on taste but also has a preservative action which contributes to improved shelf life of the products. Sodium carbonate is used to give the products their characteristic flavour profile but also brings the pH value to the slightly alkaline side. Sodium carbonate will convert to baking soda immediately after it is added.

Flavour additives in general are natural or artificial flavour compounds that comply with food regulations. Flavours are usally dissolved in alcohol when added. Most of the alcohol evaporates during production. Only trace quantities remain.

Humectants are added to protect the products from drying out. We use two types: glycerol and propylene glycol. Both of them also have a preservative effect since they lower the water activity of the product, thus preventing micro-organisms from growing.

Packaging material

Paraffin coated cardboard cans are used for most loose Snus brands. The lids are made of polypropylene.

For the pouch products we use cans made of polypropylene. Pouch products are more sensitive to drying than loose Snus so plastic cans help to increase shelf life of these products.

The paper material used to pack individual pouches is of similar type to that used in tea bags. The material is made of cellulose fibres plus an adhesive which is approved as packaging material in contact with food.

Manufacturing

Swedish Snus by GothiaTek® is manufactured in three major steps, grinding, processing and packing.

Grinding

The tobacco is broken up, dried and fed into a grinder. The ground tobacco is sieved into three particle size fractions, coarse, medium and fine. Pre-set quantities of the three fractions are fed into a mixer silo where the tobacco flour is mixed. After blending, the Snus flour is fed into a storage silo, from which flour is automatically taken to the processing operation. Each type of Snus flour is kept in a separate silo.

Processing

Manufacturing of Snus is a batch operation. The whole process is computer controlled and can be run day and night, all week around.

To start the process, tobacco flour is automatically weighed and fed into the process blender. Water and salt is added to the batch under stirring. The batch is then heated and kept heated up for a specified time, which varies with brands. Temperature and stirring is controlled by a process computer program. This part of the process is traditionally named "sweating" but is more close to a pasteurisation process.

After pasteurisation the Snus batch is cooled down and the rest of the ingredients are added. Samples are taken for quality control.

If approved, the batch is cleared for packing.

Packing of Loose Snus

Cans are filled in automatic filling machines. Filled cans are sealed with a lid. After lidding all cans are weighed on a check-weigher, which also regulates the filling volume of the cans.

Now the cans are labelled in a labelling machine, shrink-sealed in a distribution pack of 10 cans and packed in cases.

Packing of Portion-Packed Snus

Packing of portion-packed Snus requires a more complicated packaging equipment. Portions are measured and fed into a tube of cellulose fibre.

Individual portions are sealed and cut apart.

The finished portions are filled in a plastic can and the lid attached. After lidding all cans which pass a check-weigher station are labelled.

Cold storage

All finished Snus is kept in a cold storage a few days before it is shipped out to the trade. Keeping Snus cold a certain time after manufacturing is important for the Snus to ripen and obtain its characteristic flavour.