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           To Gk Fend          FROM P,D, Case
             kG, Stephnwn
              C,C, Greig

           REF DATE
              PDClpr 6.10.1992


                   P~IPER m~BS EX TI~CIET TrSSUEˇ
                    ~QSTIF~GS IQ~ID_~UI1~I~LE

           Currently paper filters have some usag i the tobacco indudry. Howcvn they have
           poor degradation characteristics, breaking down very slowly in the environment and
           also wbm suspended in water they maintain a ccfain amount of shat integri~ Tbco
           characteristics are believed to be due to the natme of the fiunisb~btes used in the
           production of the bar ~hcet Conversely, toilet paper hsuc dirinccgnter nadbl in
           water, this being a prerequisite to avoid problems within sewerage systems, Therefore,
           it baJ bna proposed to try and mao~faehue some fdccn from toilet tissJe base paper.

           U$orbJaately BTC does not have aeeefs to toilet tilme direetly and to paper fdlcr
           making facilities on site. Thus suppliers of tissue and manufacturers of filters have had
           to be identifinS, This has now been done and in order to trj and gain a wide initial
           $sight into thir whok area a type of ~ac~orial daign ccpcrimcnt i proposed in lan~
           of atternpting to produce samples Therefore the var$bles an:as follow~ˇ

                   Sources of tissue (2)
                   Types of tissue from eaeh source (2)
                   Filter manufaeturers(2)
                   Pressure Drops for each Source and Type of Tissue(2),

           This gives a sampk set of 16,

           The costings for the production of these filters are as folIows:ˇ

              1)  Supply of tissue in appropriate bobbin sites
                  from Soon (including transport to BAT) E 890

              2)  SupplyoftisrJcfromPendigo
                  (via Kimber~ Clark)                                P000 ˇ
              3)  Manufaehlre of8 samples of fillers by Filtrona     f 900
              4)  Manuiac~Jre of8 samples offillers by Deeouffie     E1500

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             5) TFmrpoa~ort~loFikronaIpdRen~m                f100
             a) Tranrpon casts to Dccoufik and Return        f100
                                 TO'II~UˇI f5990
                      ~20"/oContiageocyfor~haogn flOM)
          By no means canth$be described as 1 cheap cxereise, and only considers the PJPPIY
          oflfatetial, Therefore pMplewiIl Imdwb~cdly wish to cut C hwh I Im~gzimt this
          because we ~rt trying to gain a wide #Ivenge d the cut~ct Bwt tmncate the
          experiment and produce little from It a a EgJIS we are left wit the qOCStiW, would
          the other vuiabks have wo&ed or wt and i is difficult to miwin the usuncot for

          conlin~alian of the pmjeet Conversely awe cany cut the whole matrix and ~ot~ing
          comes of it we then ]mow totally that the project is not worth pursling.

          Can I please have the budger to proceed with tbis exercise.
          ~e to the coacise nahue of this note I am quite peCEd to lit down and discuss the
          dddil behind the study,


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