Grow with the rising demand for functional benefits
Consumers are increasingly interested in convenient nutrition. Not because of a specific dietary need, but as part of how they live. Fitness, wellness and active ageing trends are broadening the audience for ready-to-drink nutritional products. This is a diversification opportunity you can act on with your current production setup. We help you develop, process and package lifestyle nutrition beverages that respond to this demand, and strengthen your portfolio with minimal additional capital.
Protein opportunities for all stages of life
Protein is essential to everyday health supporting tissue repair, immunity, and vital bodily functions. This universal, lifelong demand drives an enormous consumer market.
What makes a great package design?
The optimal packaging will protect your food supplement and nutrition product, but it can do so much more. Choose a package that helps you present your brand in the most positive light, matching form to function.
Fine-tune your formulation for taste and performance
From identifying the right market space to selecting the right package and formulation, the path from idea to shelf is complex. Many popular functional ingredients face challenges with solubility, stability and taste in RTD formats. We help you work through these formulation hurdles — fine-tuning your recipe to appeal to your target audience with the properties, taste and mouthfeel that set your product apart.
The science of mouthfeel
Mouthfeel is one of the first things consumers notice, consciously or not. In protein-rich RTD beverages, getting texture and viscosity right is as important as the functional benefits. As food supplement and nutrition products go mainstream, the consumption experience becomes a competitive differentiator.
Advanced food production system for ready-to-drink food supplement and nutrion
Producing protein-enriched products is a demanding process that requires close attention to detail. Save time and effort by choosing a single supplier with capabilities that stretch from product development through processing, packaging, launch and beyond. With data-driven insights and tailored services, we can help your business remain profitable, resource-efficient and resilient for years to come.
1. Tetra Pak® Bag Tipping Station
Enhanced food safety meets future-proof flexibility
Tetra Pak® Bag Tipping Station is a powder handling solution that combines production efficiency, food safety, cost effectiveness and fit-for-purpose simplicity – in one compact machine. With its efficient dust control and ergonomic design, the machine contributes to a good working environment for operators. And as your needs can grow over time, so can the future-proof Tetra Pak® Bag Tipping Station – modules for automatic cutting and bag handling are, for example, easily added as you expand your operations.
Capacity:
For 25 kg to 50 kg powder bags.
Normal operation with one operator: up to 3,000 kg powder per hour.
Possible to boost to up to 6,000 kg per hour with specific configurations.
Applications:
All food powders, from basic to advanced requirements.
2. Tetra Pak® Industrial Protein Mixer
Control and minimise foam during protein mixing to reduce costly product losses and streamline your downstream process.
Foam during protein mixing causes product overflow, traps protein in tanks and pipework and fouls downstream equipment costing a typical protein processor up to €425,000 a year or more in quantified losses alone.1 Our Tetra Pak® Industrial Protein Mixer addresses these challenges at their source, improving protein utilisation by up to 14%.2
Vacuum intake, no-foam inlet, dynamic baffle and sensor-based controls work together to minimise foam and deaerate efficiently within the mixer itself.
Capacity:
Scalable from small batches to full-volume production
Applications:
Handles a wide range of food protein types including high-viscosity formulations
1. Batch model: Based on our internal analysis of a typical protein powder processing scenario. Assumes product cost of €6/kg (dry matter), batch size of 15,000 kg, 4 batches per day, 300 working days per year, CIP cost of €20 per cycle and maintenance cost of €6,000 per service. Total excludes the cost of downtime related to cleaning and maintenance, improper heat treatment due to air inclusion and reduced product stability. Actual figures vary depending on production conditions, product type and equipment configuration.
2. Protein utilisation improvement based on our internal analysis of foam-related product losses as a proportion of total batch output. Batch model: up to 14% improvement based on a 15,000 kg batch. Actual results vary depending on production conditions, product type and equipment configuration.
3. Tetra Pak® Direct UHT unit
The ultra-flexible solution for premium UHT products
Tetra Pak® Direct UHT unit is our latest step forward in aseptic technology that is designed to help you optimise production and meet the needs of an ever-changing market.
Direct UHT treatment puts minimal heat load on a food product thereby preserving the overall quality and nutritional value while reducing the impact on taste. Our direct UHT technology is truly flexible with more than 100 options and a couple of combined heating solutions
Capacity:
2,000 l/h to 45,000 l/h
Applications:
Milk, enriched milk, cream, formulated dairy products, ice-cream mix, extended shelf life (ESL) products, dairy desserts, non-dairy cream, plant-based beverages, and smooth soups and sauces.
4. Tetra Pak® Aseptic Tank
Buffering tanks that keep product and people safe
Tetra Pak® Aseptic Tank is a fully automated unit used for the aseptic buffering of liquid food products such as milk, yoghurt, rice pudding, goulash and sauces. It offers uncompromised food safety and is available as a stand-alone unit or as part of our integrated lines. We can advise you on the most suitable tank model whether your product is high or low viscosity, with or without fibres, with smaller or bigger particles, etc.
Capacity
The unit comes in three different models with a wide range of tank sizes.
Applications
For all applications (dairy, beverage and prepared food). The tank can handle high or low viscous products, with or without fibres, with smaller or bigger particles.
The aseptic tank is available as a separate unit or as a functional component in our integrated lines. Also available in a dedicated version adapted for the US and Canadian markets, meeting FDA and PMO food safety requirements. The ASME-compliant, full-vacuum-rated tank body ensures safe, reliable performance for aseptic storage and buffering and compliance with the strictest hygienic standards.
5. Tetra Pak® Aseptic Dosing unit F
Advanced technology for the ultimate in aseptic dosing flexibility
Tetra Pak® Aseptic Dosing unit F is a unique and innovative new technique where functional ingredients are injected with high precision into the base product after the final heat treatment, just before filling.
The flexible system ensures the stability and survival of heat sensitive functional ingredients and avoids the need to overdose these expensive ingredients.
The Tetra Pak Aseptic Dosing unit F is fully automated and installed between processing and the filling machines. It can serve one or several filling machines.
Capacity
Dosing range 0.5 – 30 litres per hour; product range 1,000 – 20,000 litres per hour
Applications
Dose sensitive ingredients like lactase, vitamins, minerals, probiotics, flavours, colours in everything from plain milk to formulated products
6. Tetra Pak® A3/Flex
Filling machine for aseptic packaging of liquid food. Versatility of shapes, sizes and closures
True adaptability and flexibility are crucial for aseptic filling – and the Tetra Pak®A3/Flex delivers both. Protect your investment with a Volume Conversion Kit that lets you switch to packages with a different bottom section – without needing a new machine. And with QuickChange™ ensuring faster changeovers between packages sharing the same bottom cross section, you gain the operational flexibility required to respond instantly to market shifts. Combine this with seamless closure integration and advanced sterilisation that meets the highest food safety standards, and you get a system designed to keep you agile, efficient, and ready for whatever the market demands. Start smarter, scale faster.
Max capacity (package/hour)
5,000 - 8,000
Package Types
Tetra Brik® Aseptic, Tetra Stelo® Aseptic, Tetra Prisma® Aseptic, Tetra Gemina® Aseptic
7. Tetra Pak® Accumulator Helix 40
Enhance your line performance with high-precision vertical accumulation
A vertical accumulator provides higher capacity within a smaller footprint. Its extended uptime and efficient buffering make production lines more productive, more reliable, and more flexible.
Capacity
Our reliable, space-efficient accumulators are designed to meet the needs of our packaging lines up to 40,000 p/h.:
- 50 m: Portion packages 9,000 p/h. Family packages 8,000 p/h
- 100 m: Portion packages 26,500 p/h
- 104 m: Family packages 18,000 p/h
- 125 m: Portion packages 26,500 p/h
- 151 m: Portion packages 40,000 p/h
8. Tetra Pak® Cap Applicator 40 Speed Hyper
High-speed post applied cap applicator for portion packs.
- Space-saving design – small footprint with high production capacity
- High speed and high precision for lower operating costs
- Advanced automation for fewer manual inputs and easier troubleshooting
Applies DreamCap™ 26 caps to Tetra Prisma® Aseptic Edge 250ml portion packs
Max capacity (package/hour)
20,500 - 26,000
Package Types
Tetra Prisma® Aseptic
Suitable for applying DreamCap™ 26 caps to Tetra Prisma® Aseptic Edge 250ml portion packs containing any product
9. Tetra Pak® Cardboard Packer 34
Cardboard packer with strong performances
- Robust & precise blank picking; frequency of magazine loading reduced; sensitivity to cardboard quality and thickness reduced
- All change settings have been removed, speeding up production and reduced changeover time
- Increased access and visibility for operators, facilitating cleaning, maintenance and setting changes
Packs carton packages into trays and wrap-around units.
Max capacity (package/hour)
5,000 - 10,000
Package Types
Tetra Rex®, Tetra Top®, Tetra Brik® Aseptic, Tetra Recart®, Tetra Stelo® Aseptic, Tetra Gemina® Aseptic, Tetra Brik®, Tetra Prisma® Aseptic
1. Mintel, Global Food & Drink Trends report 2024
2. Global Data 2023 Ad Hoc research.
3. Kline+Company
4. Typical production scenario based on on-site experience of customers’ protein powder processing. Assumes 300 working days per year, a 35,000kg batch size, 4 batches per day and a 6 EUR/kg DM product cost. Savings are made up of a) foam overflow in mixing phase typically costs €100,000+ per year in product losses, b) product also lost to increased burn-on during heat treatment, c) higher CIP and cleaning downtime costs and d) increased spare part and maintenance costs.