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Tetra Pak is a multinational food packaging company of Swedish origin. 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 and DeLaval, a producer of dairy and farming machinery as well as food processing equipment in several business categorys including Dairy Chilled, Dairy Ambient, Soft Drinks, Juices and Nectars, Ice Cream and Cheese. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
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A multinational corporation (MNC) is a corporation or enterprise that manages production establishments or delivers services in at least two countries. ...
Packaging is the enclosing of a physical object, typically a product that will be offered for sale. ...
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Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
IPA: is a city in Skåne in southern Sweden. ...
Ruben Rausing Ruben Rausing (1895 - 1983) was the co-founder of the liquid food packaging company Tetra Pak. ...
Tetra Laval S.A. owns Tetra Pak. ...
Polyethylene terephthalate (aka PET, PETE or the obsolete PETP or PET-P) is a thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family that produced by the chemical industry and is used in synthetic fibers; beverage, food and other liquid containers; thermoforming applications; and engineering resins often in combination with glass fiber. ...
Composite body, painted, and glazed bottle. ...
Seaton Delaval Hall, viewed from north-west Delaval is the surname of a family of gentry/aristocracy in Northumberland, England, from the 11th century to the 19th century. ...
Overview Tetra Pak real innovation is in the area of aseptic liquid food packaging. Aseptic packaging combine with UHT processing allows liquid food to be packaged and store under ambient conditions for up to one year. This allows for otherwise food that is perishible to be saved and distributed over greater distances without a cool chain to more consumers.Tetra Pak's first product was a paper carton used for storing and transporting milk. The first product was a pyramid shaped package, today its 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 combining with aseptic filling system that allow liquid food to be packaged in aseptic condition. A blank sheet of paper Paper is a commodity of thin material produced by the amalgamation of fibers, typically vegetable fibers composed of cellulose, which are subsequently held together by hydrogen bonding. ...
French milk carton Carton is the name of certain types of containers typically made from paperboard which is also sometimes known as cardboard. // In art history, the carton (pronounced the French way) was a drawing on ordinary cardboard, used as life-size design for the manufacture in an atelier of...
A glass of cows milk. ...
Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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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. Later Tetra Pak launched other packaging format - such as Tetra Wedge (wedge shaped), Tetra Fino (Pouch shaped) packaging. Tetra Pak also produced other packaging system that are not aseptic - these includes Tetra Rex (gable top), Tetra Top (Paper and plastic moulded in one), Tetra King (No long produced) A tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra) is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex. ...
1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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. Before his death in 1983, Ruben Rausing was Sweden's richest person. Professor Hans Rausing KBE (born in 1926), a Swedish businessman, is among the worlds wealthiest people with a reported net worth of 8 billion US dollars (2004). ...
Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Business Tetra Pak was able to become one of the world largest and richest companies due to the unique packaging system they produce. Through patents, tie-in contract and innovative deals etc they lock customers into a system that, once they buy into the Tetra Pak packaging system, its is very difficult to leave. Its system of unique packaging system, is unique to the world, this means that end users have no alternative other to continue to buy packaging system consumerables from Tetra Pak.
Competitions Until recently there are no alternative suppliers available to Tetra Pak, however in mid 2000, the Tetra Pak monopoly was broken in China.
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External links - Tetra Pak - Official corporate website
- Tetra Laval
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