50 Years A Factory

(Cigar Aficionado) … This factory rolls some 33 to 35 million cigars each year by hand, with rolling tables that extend back as far as the eye can see.
The facility also makes cigars by machine, an operation that runs 24 hours a day, with more than one billion mass-market cigars produced here annually, most of them Backwoods.
Many of the handmade cigars, about 20 million, are Montecristos and Romeo y Julietas. Other brands made here include H. Upmann, Por Larrañaga, Don Diego, VegaFina and Henry Clay. This one factory is singularly responsible for nearly 30 percent of all the handmade Dominican cigars shipped to the United States. Continued