omplete.

Firing
The tea trade term for the drying of tea after oxidisation and forms the fourth stage of manufacture. The oxidised leaf, or partially oxidised leaf in the case of semi-fermented tea is tipped into an oven onto a conveyor belt which carries the fermented leaf through the oven slowly drying it. It comes out of the oven as black tea, or semi-green in the case of the semi-fermented teas.

Leg Cut
A mechanised methods for cutting leaves prior to fermentation and firing or drying. Eliminated the withering stage of manufacture and produced smaller leaf particles such as fannings and dust. This machine is not widely used and has been replaced by more modern machines which do not eliminate any stages of manufacture.

L.T.P.
Lawrie Tea Processor, a modern CTC machine.

Orthodox
A machine, which takes its name from the first mechanised method