Visit to Imperial Tobacco Limited, Montreal:
12.9.80
A.L. Heard
General
1. Itinerary and organogram attached.
2. Bob Gibb indidated that Government.was getting
tougher on foreign-owned companies. Improved
records wiil*be needed to show-the legitimacy
of funds directed-to U.K. e.g. R&_D Centre.
3. Also there ii a feeling at Board level that
"this
R&D business is getting out-of-hand" in terms of
cost. Bob Gibb is again being asked to list what
GROC is doing for I.T.L. and what it has achieved
in the past year.
4. Bob Gibb is of the opinion that GR&DC should
per-
form the r-ole of a "Tobacco University".
Technic al
5. Product Development (Miss.Ruth Smith, under
Stan
Candlish) works on a team basis with R&D,
Marketing,
and Leaf. This seems to be highly effective.
Wilf Gray runs a small primary process (highly
flexible in terms of inputs and conditions.)
Secondary process for samples is run jointly with
Pro-
duction.
6. Technical Services, (Louis Bouchard under Stan
Candlish).. Responsibility for specifications of
materials (including packaging.) Filters are an
important item: Dave English currently running
13.different CA tows for e-- 2Z different
products.
7. Analytical Services (Bruce Stirling under Pat
Dunn).
Developing data collection/processing system; way
behind schedule. Need for co-ordination with
similar
programmes in GROC and Hamburg.
8. Human Smoking (Cathy McBride, Research
Scientist
under Pat Dunn). Developed 4-port puff du plicator
but no clear programme for use. Joint wor k with
Medical Department of University.
Section also responsible for "methods
development".
An important example is coal retention -
developing
B&W method to get sensible results with Virginia
cigarettes. Some preliminary work on correlating
retention with other physical characteristics.
Needs to be co-ordinated with GR&DC.
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Technical (continued)
9. Leaf Research under Grame Boswall is largely
a co-ordinatingr8le of University and Tobacco
Research Station activities.
10. Product Research under Tom Smith embraces
smoke
filtration, modification, physics/physical
chemistry,
and biochemistry/biology.
Notes ta) Andrew Porter is collaborating with
Richard Baker and is concerned with
cigarette physical properties and
the inter-relation with basic tobacco
properties. '
(b) Bob Rice has done some useful basic
physics of tobacco several years ago.
(c) Minoo Bilimoria, who works half and
half-at I.T.L. and McGill University,
is doing short term bioassay work.
He is about to start a collaborative
project with Richard Binns on Ames v.
long term skin-painting.
11. Process Development is entirely to do with
primary,
but with some involvement in redrying. Jay Perry,
recruited from the coffee industry some years ago,
heads the work with Peter Benn as a useful
co-worker.
They are asking fundamental questions to which BAT
(GR&DC?) have no answers. A list put together by
the
process people in conjunction. wit h others at
I.T.L.
was supplied.
12. The visit ended with a brief tour of the
laboratories,
accompanied by Stan Candlish, - all the staff
having
departed several hours earlier.
A.L. Heard
Encs.
Distribution:
1115/r .L.C.F. Blackman
Dr. C.I. Ayres <=)
Mr. D.J. Wood
Dr. S.R. Evelyn CXD
Mr. N.E. Willis __,J
Mr. P.J. Nicholl
Mr. D.E. Conway
Mr. N.R. Page ON
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November 1999