Tetra Brik Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf

Portion packages

Increased renewable content for portion packages

Strengthen your brand’s sustainability story while maintaining food safety, shelf life, and filling performance. With up to 92% renewable content¹, Tetra Brik Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf with paper-based barrier helps improve your sustainability credentials and maintain operational efficiency.

Capture rising demand for paper-based portion packages

Carton packaging is now seen by many consumers as the most environmentally sound food and beverage packaging type, and higher paper content can increase purchase intent. This shift is reshaping expectations for portion packages across dairy, juice, nectar, still drinks and plant-based beverages.

43% of consumers believe carton packaging is the most environmentally sound.²

28% of consumers say carton packaging made only with renewable materials would meet their needs the most.²

The Tetra Brik^® Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf with paper-based barrier helps you respond with a package that increases paper content, strengthens your sustainability credentials and creates a stronger on-shelf impact – allowing you to enhance your brand and unlock new growth opportunities in a challenging and changing market.

Grow your business with paper-based barrier in your portion packages

Meet sustainability expectations without asking consumers to change behaviour

Consumers are increasingly seeking more sustainable options without paying a premium or changing their routines, with 29% willing to switch brands to achieve this. A package with increased paper content, more renewable materials and compatibility with existing aseptic lines – with the addition of an upgrade kit – helps you demonstrate progress while keeping adoption simple.³

Turn everyday wellness demand into stronger portion package propositions

Consumers want better physical and mental wellbeing with less effort, including protein- and fibre-enhanced options, increased nutrition and functional ingredients. Tetra Brik^®Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf with paper-based barrier gives you a flexible platform for wellness-oriented launches that support health-led positioning without adding cold chain complexity.³

Win market share with convenient, grab-and-go formats

Fast, fragmented routines and on-the-go lifestyles are increasing demand for convenient, low- or no-prep food and drink, with ready-to-drink categories projected to grow around 6.6% CAGR to reach $1.4 trillion by 2034. A slim, robust, grab‑and‑go carton with strong on‑shelf presence helps you participate in this growth, from kids’ drinks to adult functional beverages.³

Why choose paper-based cartons for portion packages?

Producers of ambient dairy, juice, nectar, still drinks and plant-based beverages face pressure to grow, cut complexity and show credible progress on packaging renewability. The Tetra Brik® Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf with paper-based barrier opens new ways to differentiate, strengthen your sustainability story and support recycling infrastructures where collection and recycling systems exist.

1. Product and brand

Modernise your portfolio with a more distinctive portion package:

Use the distinctive Slim Leaf shape and packaging design expertise to give your portion packages a contemporary look that signals innovation and responsibility, helping your products stand out on shelves and on screens.

2. On-pack communication

Tell a clearer nutrition and sustainability story:

Leverage seven printable panels to highlight nutrition, functional benefits and the move to a paper-based barrier, creating a clear, credible story about how your brand is progressing on packaging.

3. Portion flexibility

Serve more people, occasions and channels with one format:

Offer 200 ml portion packages that work for kids’ drinks, on-the-go adult beverages and controlled servings, supporting mindful consumption, everyday wellness occasions and reduced product waste in ambient channels.

4. Production and logistics

Simplify your production while staying flexible:

Use a format designed for Tetra Pak^® A3/CompactFlex with an optional upgrade kit and Ultrasonic Transversal Sealing, enabling you to switch between standard and paper-based barrier materials without mechanical rebuilds and keep line efficiency high.

5. Sustainability and perception

Build stronger sustainability credentials with higher renewable content:

Move from three to two main materials – paper and polymers – with a paper-based barrier and plant-based polymers that increase renewable content up to 92%¹, supporting your transition towards more renewable, circular‑ready packaging where collection and recycling systems exist.

6. Consumer appeal

Offer a lighter, practical package that fits modern lifestyles:

Provide lightweight, ambient cartons that are easy to grip, drink from and store, aligning with consumer expectations for practical, on-the-go formats for everyday routines that also feel like a better choice from a sustainability perspective.

Deliver the functionality your consumers expect with a sharper paper straw

Move to a paper straw that supports your sustainability targets while keeping operations simple. The sharp tip is designed to pierce the paper-based barrier cleanly, ensuring a smooth consumer experience, and it runs on existing straw applicators with no additional line investment required. By replacing plastic with paper, you can further increase the total renewable content of your package while maintaining flexibility, with a plastic straw option still available.

Maintain shelf life and food safety while switching from aluminium

Switch to a paper-based barrier without compromising the performance your products rely on. The improved structure supports 9 to 12 months of shelf life for juice, nectar and still drink categories, and plant-based beverages, delivering shelf life and food safety comparable to aseptic packaging with an aluminium foil barrier. This means you can increase renewable content while maintaining product quality, protect trust in your brand, and make the transition with confidence

Higher renewable content, same line efficiency

Adopt Tetra Brik® Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf with paper-based barrier on lines designed to protect uptime, flexibility and total cost of ownership. With Tetra Pak® A3/CompactFlex and Ultrasonic Transversal Sealing, you can introduce the new barrier material while keeping your footprint compact, changeovers efficient and integration with processing under control.

Match your investment path to your growth plans

If you already run Tetra Brik^® Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf on Tetra Pak^® A3/CompactFlex, an Optional Kit enables production with the paper-based barrier after a rebuild of around 48 hours. If you are investing in new capacity, the latest Tetra Pak^® A3/CompactFlex variant is fully compatible with this material from day one. This lets you introduce a package with higher renewable content without adding a new filling platform.

Maintain efficiency while adding a new material

Protect line efficiency as you broaden your packaging mix. With the upgraded Ultrasonic Transversal Sealing (USTS) included in both the Optional Kit and new Tetra Pak^® A3/CompactFlex equipment, you can switch between standard and paper-based barrier packaging materials without mechanical rebuilds – only a software recipe change and cleaning-in-place are needed. This reduces planned downtime, supports agile planning and helps you respond faster to customer demand.

Integrate seamlessly with processing and downstream

Secure a smooth transition from product to pack and beyond. Our processing and packaging specialists work with you to align upstream treatment and downstream handling with Tetra Brik^® Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf with paper-based barrier, drawing on validation runs that have proven robust performance and food safety at scale. From layout and line design to palletising and logistics, we help you safeguard reliability and attractive total cost of ownership as you scale the new material.

Expand your ambient beverage opportunities

Tetra Brik^®Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf with paper-based barrier is designed for a new generation of ambient beverages, from liquid dairy and plant-based drinks to juice, nectars and still drinks. It’s built for brand owners, producers, co-packers and private-label retailers that want more renewable, future-ready packaging for aseptic portion packages.

Unlock new value in packaging – without compromising performance

Rising material expectations and shifting consumer demands are putting pressure on every packaging decision. How do you reduce reliance on finite materials while protecting product quality and operational efficiency? Our paper-based barrier innovation is advancing what’s possible – enabling higher renewable content while maintaining food protection and shelf life. This is not a single breakthrough, but a continuous innovation journey designed to help you adapt, compete and grow.

Explore how the paper-based barrier can boost your brand⁠

¹Considering a Tetra Brik® Aseptic 200 Slim Leaf carton for juice with paper-based barrier and plant-based polymers used in the packaging material coatings.

²Tetra Pak® Sustainable Packaging Consumer Research 2025, comprising a total of 12,500+ consumer interviews based on an online questionnaire in 25 countries.

³ Ipsos Global Trends 2025 - Ipsos Health Service Monitor 2025

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