Tetra Pak
Type	Private
Founded	1951 (Lund, Sweden)
Headquarters	Sweden
Key people	Ruben Rausing, Founder Erik Wallenberg, Inventor Dennis Jönsson, CEO Hans Rausing Gad Rausing
Industry	Food Packaging
Revenue	▲ €8,533 million (2006)
Employees	20,250 (2006)
Website	http://www.tetrapak.com/

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Ruben Rausing's sons Hans Rausing and Gad Rausing ran Tetra Pak from 1954 until 1985, taking the company from a seven-person concern to one of Sweden's largest corporations. Hans Rausing KBE (born 1926 a British based Swedish born businessman is among the world's wealthiest people with a reported Net worth Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Before his death in 1983, Ruben Rausing was Sweden's richest person. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)

Overview

Tetra Pak's innovation is in the area of aseptic processing liquid food packaging which, when combined with Ultra-high-temperature processing (UHT), allows liquid food to be packaged and stored under room temperature conditions for up to a year. Aseptic processing is the process by which a sterile ( Aseptic) product (typically Food or pharmaceutical is packaged in a sterile container in a way which maintains Ultra-high temperature processing or (less often ultra-heat treatment (both abbreviated UHT) is the partial sterilization of Food by heating Room temperature (also referred to as ambient temperature) is a common term to denote a certain Temperature within enclosed space at which humans are accustomed This allows for perishable goods to be saved and distributed over greater distances without the need for a cool chain.

Products

Not so easy to hit the glass. Tetra Pak 1965

Tetra Pak's first product was a paper carton used for storing and transporting milk. The first product was a pyramid shaped package, today called "Tetra Classic". 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 and aluminium coated paperboard combined with an aseptic filling system. These initial cartons were tetrahedrons, leading to the company's name, derived from "four" in Greek languages Greek. first Tetra Classic package was launched in 1953, and in 1963 the company introduced Tetra Brik, a rectangular carton. Later, Tetra Pak launched other packaging formats such as Tetra Wedge (wedge shaped) and Tetra Fino (Pouch shaped). Tetra Pak also produced other non aseptic packaging systems – including Tetra Rex (gable top), Tetra Top (Paper and plastic moulded in one) and the now discontinued Tetra King. Recent innovations have seen the introduction of laminated paper boxes for vegetables as an alternative to tinned goods. It is claimed that this new product, Tetra Recart, allows for more subtle processing of vegetables than canning permits.

Business and competition

Until recently the company held a monopoly in China, with no alternative suppliers available to Tetra Pak, however in mid 2000, the Tetra Pak monopoly was broken. Other companies producing comparable aseptic beverage carton packagings are SIG with its proprietary Combibloc technology, Tralin Pak with its Tralin Brick Aseptic materials, and Elopak with Pure-Pak. Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft ( German for Swiss Industrial Society) or SIG, is the former name of SIG Holding AG a Swiss company that Elopak is a Norwegian company producing Cartons for liquids starting with aseptic gable top cartons for Milk. Elopak is a Norwegian company producing Cartons for liquids starting with aseptic gable top cartons for Milk. Milliken manufactures a similar packaging system in the US.

Early in 2004 there were reports that the Tanzi family, the owners of the Italian dairy food company Parmalat had benefited from some improper activities. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Parmalat SpA ( is a Multinational Italian Dairy and food corporation ^[1] Investigators said the company’s former chief financial officer reported that Parmalat’s packaging supplier, Tetra Pak, had paid the Tanzis millions in kickbacks. Bribery, a form of pecuniary corruption is an act usually implying money or gift given that alters the behaviour of the recipient in ways not consistent with the duties of that person Prosecutors said Tanzi admitted shifting some $620 million from Parmalat to his family’s travel businesses. Tetra Pak denied any wrong-doing. ^[2] It claimed that Parmalat, as a major customer for many years, benefited from marketing support and discounts on packaging material. Discounts and allowancesIn Finance and Economics, discounting is the process of finding the present value of an amount of cash at some future date and along with The discounts to Parmalat, it said, are similar to those that benefit other large customers.

References

External links

• Tetra Pak - Official corporate website
• Bicycology - Make a Tetrapak Wallet
• Tetra Laval
• SIG
• UK Tetra Pak Recycling information website

Data

• Yahoo! - Tetra Laval SA Company Profile