food packaging equipment

Tetra Pak, (of Swedish origin), is a multinational food packaging company.

As of 2006, Tetra Pak is the world's leader and largest supplier of carton packaging for milk, soup, fruit juices, and other liquid products [citation needed]. It was founded in 1951 in Lund, Sweden by Ruben Rausing and Erik Wallenberg. The company is part of the Tetra Laval group which also includes Sidel that specializes in PET bottles.

Tetra Pak's first Tetrahedron machine

History

Ruben Rausing, the founder

Tetra Pak's first product was a revolutionary paper carton used for storing and transporting milk. The first product was called Tetra Classic. Breweries and bottling of food processing and packaging equipment systems for snack food, process prepared. Rausing had been working on the design since 1943, and by 1950 had perfected techniques for making his cartons fully airtight, using a system of plastic coated paperboard. These initial cartons were tetrahedrons having 4 sides, leading to the company's name, which means "four" in Greek. In 1952 The first Tetra Classic package was launched, and later in 1963 the company introduced Tetra Brik, a rectangular carton.

Ruben Rausing's son Hans Rausing ran Tetra Pak from 1954 until 1985, taking the company from a seven-person concern to one of Sweden's largest corporations. Before his death in 1983, Ruben Rausing was Sweden's richest person.

Tetra Pak was founded on the concept that a package should save more than it costs. Packaging Directory.

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