Services
Your tobacco, processed to your specification
Independent processing capacity for tobacco exporters, leaf merchants and overseas buyers, from a single trial lot to a full season’s programme.
How we can work together
Four ways to use our capacity
Several medium-volume contracts, overflow work and smaller programmes all fit alongside each other on a 60 MT/day line.
- 01
Contract / toll processing
You procure or nominate the tobacco; we process it against your agreed specification. You keep control of sourcing, grades and buyers.
- 02
Seasonal overflow
Additional capacity when your own plant, or your usual processor, is full during the season.
- 03
Emergency & shutdown cover
Contingency capacity for integrated processors during a breakdown or a planned plant shutdown.
- 04
Special lots & trial batches
Special or unusual grades and trial lots, useful for new customers and for companies with their own GLT plants.
Integrated support
Processing, packing and storage under one roof
Stem / lamina separation
Threshing to separate lamina from stem to the agreed specification.
Moisture control
Redrying to the specified final moisture and tolerances.
Packing
Packed to the agreed format, with packing type and bale or carton specifications set per programme.
Warehousing
Approx. 4,600 sq. m of on-site warehouse space for customers’ tobacco.
Export preparation
Where commercially and operationally applicable, we support container preparation and shipment staging for processed tobacco leaving the plant for export.
New buyers start small
The trial-order path
Your first transaction with us doesn’t need to be a large commercial programme. Most new relationships, especially with overseas customers, follow six steps.
- 1
Plant audit
Visit and inspect the Guntur plant.
- 2
Technical discussion
Grades, processing requirement, moisture and packing.
- 3
Sample specification
Agree the specification for a sample lot.
- 4
Trial lot
Process a trial lot to that specification.
- 5
Quality evaluation
You evaluate the processed trial lot.
- 6
Commercial programme
Move to a commercial-scale processing programme.
Preparing a quotation
What we’ll ask you
We quote against an actual technical specification. To prepare one, we’ll need:
- Tobacco type and grade
- Quantity
- Incoming tobacco condition
- Processing specification
- Threshing and redrying requirement
- Final moisture
- Packing format
- Storage period
- Delivery schedule
For overseas buyers
Nominate us as your Indian processor
You don’t need to change your existing tobacco supplier. Buy through your normal sourcing channels and nominate A.S. Krishna as the processing base for your Indian purchases.
- Foreign buyer
- Indian sourcing partner / exporter
- A.S. Krishna, nominated processor
- Processed tobacco
- Export to buyer
Start with a conversation
Tell us about your upcoming crop programme.
Tobacco type, estimated tonnage and processing period are enough to begin. We can arrange a plant visit or a trial lot.