Visit to Imperial Tobacco Limited, Montreal:
12.9.80
A. L. Heard
General
1. Itinerar and organogram attached.
2. Bob Gibb indicated that Government was getting
tougher on foreign-owned companies. Improved
records will be needed to show the legitimacy
of funds directed to U.K. e.g. R&D Centre.-
3. Also there is 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
GR&DC 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 role of a "Tobacco University".
Technical
S. 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 Servicest (Louis Bouchard under Stan
Candlish). Responsibility for specif ications of
materials (including packaging ') Filters are an
important item:- Dave English currently running
13 different CA tows for --o 22 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 GR&DC and Hamburg.
S. Human Smoking (Cathy McBrid.e, Research Scientist
under Pat Dunn). Developed -port puff duplicator
but no clear programme for use. Joint work with
Medical Department of University.
Section also responsible for "methods development".
An important example is coal retention - developing CDP
B&W method to got sensible results with Virginia __4
cigarettes. Some preliminary work an correlating
retention with other physical characteristics.
Needs to be co-ordinate with GROC.
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Technical (continued)
9. Leaf Research under Gram* Boswall is largely
a coordinating role of University and Tobacco
Research Station activities.
10. Product Research under Tom Smith embraces smoke
filtration, modification, physics/physical chemistry,
and biochemistry/biology.
Notes (a) 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 Binas on Ames v.
long term skin-painting.
II. 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
(GRI DC?) have no answers. A list put together by the
process people in conjunction with 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:
Dr. L. C. P. Blackman
Dr. Colo Ayres
Mr. D. J. Wood
Dr. S.R Evo 1
Mr. N.E: WilIrs 4:b-
Mr. P.J. Nicholl
Mr. D.E. Conway
Mr. N. R. Pago
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