Tetra Pak in brief
Company Overview
Tetra Pak began in the early 1950s as one of the first packaging companies for liquid milk. Since then, we have become one of the world's largest suppliers of packaging systems for milk, fruit juices and drinks, and many other products.
In 1991, Tetra Pak expanded into liquid food processing equipment, plant engineering, and cheese manufacturing equipment. Today, it is the only international company in the world able to provide integrated processing, packaging, and distribution line and plant solutions for food manufacturing. This means that our customers enjoy the advantage of being able to get multi-product solutions from a single source, with matching equipment at every stage.
Products
Our packaging systems fall into two application categories: ambient and chilled. Ambient systems include Tetra Classic Aseptic, Tetra Brik Aseptic, Tetra Fino Aseptic, Tetra Gemina Aseptic, Tetra Prisma Aseptic, Tetra Wedge Aseptic and Tetra Recart. Chilled application systems include Tetra Brik, Tetra Classic, Tetra Rex and Tetra Top.
Main product application areas include milk, fruit juices and beverages, wine, water, tomato products, soups, desserts, soya, nutritionals and other products. In addition, at Tetra Pak we produce a wide range of distribution equipment, including conveyors, cardboard tray packers, closure applicators, and shrink wrappers.
We also supply packaging material from a world-wide network of production facilities. These factories provide regular delivery to the 9,115 Tetra Pak packaging machines currently installed at customer plants across the world. Further, our company provides extensive software service to our customers. These include planning, plant control and monitoring, computerised logistic studies, training, technical service, and marketing assistance.
We provide processing solutions within the five food categories: dairy, cheese, ice cream, beverage and prepared food. Our company delivers plants with guaranteed performance and offers support over the lifetime of the plant. This includes integrated plant automation systems, with product-tracing features, as well as complete plant engineering services aimed at protection of food safety.
At Tetra Pak, we can provide complete line solutions from product reception to final treatment and packaging. Our company offers a full line of pasteurisers and UHT modules, homogenisers, separators, standardisation units, CIP systems, heat exchangers, flow equipment, and other components. For the cheese industry we can offer equipment and lines from raw milk reception up to ready product (including packaging for liquid filled cheese). Tetra Pak Tebel within Tetra Pak Processing Systems focuses on five segments: Cheddar cheese, hard cheese, semi-hard cheese, cottage cheese and fresh cheese (liquid filled). Tetra Pak Processing Systems also includes Tetra Pak Hoyer, the largest full-service supplier of complete systems, equipment, consumables and support for the processing and packaging of ice cream.
The packaging system Tetra Rex offers new alternative solutions for dry food filling. The gable top carton's shapes, closures and features are being modified in order to fit customers' dry food packaging needs in a better way.
At Tetra Pak, we regard R&D work on new processing, packaging, and distribution systems as an important method to retain our market leadership. There are 12 Tetra Pak R&D centres engaged in numerous projects in various parts of the world.
Organisation
Today, there are 41 Tetra Pak market companies and 74 sales offices across the world, 43 plants for packaging material and closures and 10 packaging machine assembly factories. Our company has 21,640 employees and achieved in 2008 net sales of 8,825 million Euro. Tetra Pak products are sold in more than 150 markets.
(January 2009)
Key Location
Tetra Pak International SA
Headquarters
70 Avenue Général-Guisan
Case Postale 446
CH-1009 PULLY/LAUSANNE
Phone: +41 21 729 2111
Fax: +41 21 729 2244
www.tetrapak.com