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Tetra Pack
Tetra Pack
Tetra Pack was founded by Ruben Rausing and built on Erik Wallenberg's innovation,
a tetrahedron-shaped plastic-coated paper carton, from which the company name was derived.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the development of the Tetra Brik package and the aseptic packaging
technology 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, who took the company from a family business of six employees,
in 1954, to a multinational corporation.
Tetra Pack is currently the largest food packaging company in the world by sales, operating in
more than 160 countries and with over 24,800 employees (2017).
In November 2011, the Tetra Brik carton package was represented at the exhibition Hidden
Heroes – The Genius of Everyday Things at the London Science Museum/Vitra Design Museum,
celebrating "the miniature marvels we couldn’t live without". The aseptic packaging
technology has been called the most important food packaging innovation of the 20th century by
the Institute of Food Technologists. The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences called
the Tetra Pack packaging system one of Sweden's most successful inventions of all time. As of
2011, 20 percent of Tetra Pak cartons are recycled globally.
Aseptic technology