Tetra Pak is a multinational food packaging and processing company of Swedish origin with head offices in Lund, Sweden and Lausanne, Switzerland. The company offers packaging solutions, filling machines and processing solutions for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice-cream and prepared food, including distribution tools like accumulators, cap applicators, conveyors, crate packers, film wrappers, line controllers and straw applicators. Tetra Pak was fou...
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Tetra Pak is a multinational food packaging and processing company of Swedish origin with head offices in Lund, Sweden and Lausanne, Switzerland. The company offers packaging solutions, filling machines and processing solutions for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice-cream and prepared food, including distribution tools like accumulators, cap applicators, conveyors, crate packers, film wrappers, line controllers and straw applicators. Tetra Pak was founded by Ruben Rausing in 1951 as a subsidiary to Åkerlund & Rausing and built on an innovation by Erik Wallenberg, the tetrahedron package, from which the company name was derived. Tetra Pak’s big commercial breakthrough came in the 1960s and 1970s, with the development of the Tetra Brik package and the aseptic packaging technology, which made possible a cold chain supply, substantially facilitating distribution and storage. From the beginning of the 1950s to the mid 1990s the company was headed by the two sons of Ruben Rausing, Hans and Gad,...
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