I'll describe the grades you'll see on commercial Ceylon packaging.
With the Ceylon seal you also get a grade lettering. BOPF is
fannings, BOP irregular indistinguishable broken, FBOP small leaf, OP
the largest leaf. With seemingly little CTC and commercial BOP at
around $5/500g it is still cheaper than most Indian CTC.

Jim

"Jon P Nossen" > wrote in message news:<nHQOc.3776$vH5.2598@amstwist00>...
> There is a small amount of CTC production in Sri Lanka/Ceylon. I
> believe I've read that about 6 per cent is CTC. But a huge
> amount of the "orthodox" black tea is made into small particles,
> i.e. BOP, BOPF and Dust, by the Rotorvane process.
>
> Jon
>
> "Space Cowboy" > skrev i melding
> om...
> > I would have guessed that over the decades I would have seen a
> CTC
> > Ceylon first in a commercial brand. You see CTC all the time
> in
> > Indian teas but that process I haven't seen in other tea
> producing
> > countries which still use sieving.