Guillotine cutter for tobacco and botanical materials
Achieve precision cuts in small batches of tobacco, molasses, and botanicals with a guillotine cutter designed for quick adjustments, ensuring product uniformity and quality in every run.

Processes Tobacco and Molasses with Precision Cutting
The CUT-TOM Guillotine Cutter from Comas Italy efficiently addresses the needs of tobacco and shisha manufacturers by providing precise multi-purpose cutting for small batches of raw materials, including tobacco, molasses, and botanicals. This compact cutter, measuring 1650 mm in length and weighing approximately 1500 kg, operates at cutting widths between 3 and 11 mm, while processing capacities range from 150 to 650 kg/h. With a focus on ease of operation and rapid maintenance, it features a separate mechanism for automatic knife grinding and a quick cut-width size adjustment. Its compact design ensures minimal footprint and smooth integration into existing production lines, with power requirements of 4 kW. Enhanced with high safety standards and an adjustable speed system, the CUT-TOM caters to varied processing needs, making it ideal for producing shisha tobacco, cut rag, and molasses-based products, among others.
Benefits
- Enhances production flexibility with adjustable cutting widths for various product specifications.
- Minimizes operational downtime through easy knife replacement and maintenance.
- Ensures consistent product quality with precise multi-purpose cutting capabilities.
- Reduces energy consumption with compact design, requiring only 4 kW of power.
- Facilitates seamless integration into existing production lines with compact dimensions.
- Applications
- Tobacco,Botanicals,Molasses
- End products
- Molasses-based tobacco products,Tobacco cut rag,Herbal smoking blends,Shisha tobacco
- Steps before
- Bale Handling,Undressing,Moisture Content Adjustment
- Steps after
- Packing Solutions,Tobacco Strips,Stems Processing,Molasses Blending
- Input ingredients
- tobacco,botanicals,whole leaf
- Output ingredients
- cut tobacco strips,cut botanicals,small cut materials
- Market info
- Comas (Coesia Group) is renowned for designing and manufacturing cutting-edge machinery for the tobacco industry, specializing in primary tobacco processing solutions, and known for its innovation, reliability, and tailored equipment solutions.
- Cutting width range
- 3–11 mm
- Capacity
- 150–650 kg/h
- Moisture content of whole leaf
- 22–24%
- Total power requirements
- 4 kW
- Dimensions (Length x Width x Height)
- 1650 mm x 940 mm x 1650 mm
- Weight
- Approx. 1500 kg
- Discharge mouth width
- 250 mm
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC
- Ease of operation,maintenance and cleaning
- High
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Changeover time
- Quick cut-width size change (3mm to 11mm)
- Multi-purpose cutting
- Vertical/cross cut
- Cleaning method
- Simplified manual
- Knife replacement
- Simple
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine footprint
- Length
- Width
- 940 mm
- Height
- 1.650 mm
- Weight
- 1.500 kg
- Discharge mouth width
- 250 mm
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Compact footprint
- Length