Tetra Recart® is great for e-commerce
Looking for the right food packaging to add value and sustainability to your business? One that reduces your logistics costs and carbon emissions, while ensuring excellent food safety and looking great? With an optimal format for attention-grabbing graphics and product information on-screen, this innovative, space-saving packaging is the smart choice for e-commerce.
Meet Tetra Recart retortable carton packaging – the future of shelf-stable foods.
Attention all shoppers!
Ever try to read a round can or jar label on a computer or phone screen? It’s not fun. But the square shape and wide face of a Tetra Recart package fits right into the digital world. It’s clearly the best packaging format for accommodating attractive graphics and easy-to-read information.
No space-wasters, please.
It’s a no-brainer. Since square packages fit tightly together, you can store more in your warehouses and ship more per pallet: 20% more food vs cans, 50% more vs glass jars, and 160% more vs plastic pouches. They’re also lightweight, so you’ll save even more on logistical costs.
Meet the demands of the future
Based on data from 6 LCA studies in the US, EU, Japan and Oceania, Tetra Recart’s carbon footprint is 20% smaller than plastic pouches1, 85% smaller than cans and 83% smaller than glass jars2 when compared to equivalent sizes. To put things into perspective, if 10 billion cans were converted to Tetra Recart cartons, it would result in 150,000 fewer trucks on the roads3. Furthermore, up to 71% of the materials in each carton is made from FSC™-certified4 paperboard from renewable, responsibly sourced trees.
It won’t squash the squash.
Heavy cans and jars can damage delicate food items like fresh fruits and vegetables, for example when packed and shipped together as part of a meal kit. As it’s softer and lighter, Tetra Recart is much less likely to do so. There is also a higher consumer acceptance for dented cartons vs dented cans. We call that a win-win.
You can partner with an experienced co-packer
Don’t go it alone. Choosing Tetra Recart as a packaging solution for your e-commerce business means sharing your investment with an experienced co-packer as a partner. You’ll join an established global network with all the connections, equipment, knowledge and expertise to help you quickly expand your e-commerce portfolio and reach new markets. You’ll also have solid access to fresh ingredients like fruits and vegetables, plus the facilities to experiment with recipes and produce ready samples.
Interested in developing, producing, packaging and retorting new shelf-stable food products? Get in touch!
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Retailers: reduce your direct product cost with Tetra Recart
Food retailers can reduce their direct product costs by choosing shelf-stable food packaged in Tetra Recart. Among the benefits are less space, less waste and more speed.
1. Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Tetra Recart® packages and alternative packaging systems for shelf stable pet and baby food on the European, US and Japanese markets, 2021
2. Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Tetra Pak® carton packages and alternative packaging systems for beverages and liquid food on the European market, 2020
3. Based on internal calculations, Tetra Pak competitive insights.
4. The FSC licence code of Tetra Pak is FSC™ C014047 - Tetra Pak FSC™ Certificate