Sifaco Group Production Date Code Format

Contents

• Introduction
• Sifaco Group Production Date Code Format Overview
• Calculating the Production Period From the Production Date Code
  • Production Code Reference Charts
• Appendix: References

Introduction

The Sifaco Group manufacture tobacco products and often incorporate on their product packaging a production date code.

Sifaco Group Production Date Code Format Overview

The Sifaco Group production date code takes the form of ABC, where value A equals a single-letter year code, value B equals a single-letter month code, and value C plainly expresses the calendar week-month of production as a single-digit.

Calculating the Production Period From the Production Date Code

To calculate the period of production of a Sifaco Group tobacco product from the production date code with the code UA1 for the sake of example:

• The first character of the production date code indicates the year of production in the Gregorian calendar system. Reference the year code chart provided in order to discern the year that corresponds to a particular value. In this example the code is U which corresponds to the year 2016.
• The second character is a month code. Reference the month code chart provided in order to discern the month that corresponds to a particular value. In this example the code is A which corresponds to the second month of the year.
• The third character plainly expresses the calendar week-month of production. Reference the calendar week-month indicator chart provided in order to discern the calendar week-month that corresponds to a particular value. In this example the value is 1 which indicates the first week of the month.
• Contextualise the production values by combining them. In this example the production date code conveys production in the first week of 2016-02.

Production Code Reference Charts

References

1. Makla & Neffa. Sifaco Benelux. Page 19. Digital version