INNOVATION STARTS HERE.

“We want to be part of the solution to move our industry forward and continue to protect food, people and the planet.” - Adolfo Orive, President & CEO, Tetra Pak Group

How we innovate
Innovation is in our DNA
Voices of innovation
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Tomorrow’s challenges demand innovation today

As the world and consumers change, the food industry faces several fundamental challenges, from continuously optimising processing and packaging to offering consumers more sustainable products. Our customers want to take on all these challenges while having a positive impact on the planet. At Tetra Pak, we believe innovation is the only way to get there – and we plan to lead the way.

How we innovate

We are a team of dedicated experts and open-minded collaborators driven by our purpose to protect what’s good. Putting our customers at the centre of innovation, we apply cutting-edge science and technologies to improve food processing and develop packaging that solves the biggest challenges.

Package customisation at your fingertips

Learn how this agile, cost-effective printing gives you the freedom to explore new business and marketing opportunities.

Tomorrow’s package design trends

Today’s innovative packaging designs are taking cues from changing consumer attitudes. Find out how you can tap into the latest trends.

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Changing the game for decades

Innovation is in our DNA

From the first aseptic package to the first fully renewable carton, innovation underpins everything we do.

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Innovating with customers

Combining our capabilities with our customers’ expertise is a winning recipe.

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Food & Beverage innovation trends

Our customers are on a mission to cater to quickly changing consumer preferences while reducing their environmental impact. They’re pursuing digitalisation, connectivity and end-to-end optimisation. We stay one step ahead to offer a range of innovations that help them achieve their goals.

Visit the home of innovation

We remain ready to unleash the potential of these technologies, using them to create breakthrough processing, packaging and service solutions for our customers. That’s how we will help shape a more efficient, resourceful and sustainable food and beverage industry.

Voices of innovation

A history of innovation

Laurence Mott tells our proud history of breakthroughs in food processing and packaging.

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The power of partnership

A discussion of the industry’s most pressing challenges and how they can be addressed.

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Innovating for sustainability

Our head of R&D explains why innovation is crucial to creating a more sustainable packaging industry.

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What drives us

Not only does innovation let us play a key role in helping us provide safe food for everyone, but it also ensures we continue to live up to our promise to protect food, people and the planet – every day.

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Speed up the innovation process in soft drinks

Speed up the innovation process and gain a competitive advantage with a preparation system that’s flexible in volume and handling multiple ingredients.

Learn how to speed up R&D in beverage production⁠

Where innovation meets affordability

Where innovation meets affordability: Obour Land launches new spreadable processed cheese product with mass appeal

Partners in packaging innovation target renewables

Carton packages today consist of about 70% renewable material from wood fibre. Tetra Pak and BillerudKorsnäs are collaborating to push that figure towards 100%.

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Towards low-carbon circular economy with recyclability

51bn Tetra Pak cartons were recycled 2019 but to achieve a truly circular economy where waste is designed out and materials stay in use requires that all packages can get new life.

Read more about innovation for improved recyclability⁠

Climate challenge sparks packaging collaboration

Major players in the packaging industry have recognised that they won’t be able to solve the multiple challenges they face by working in silos.

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Solving global challenges through innovation

How can the food & beverage and packaging industries address major challenges such as climate change and making food safe and available to a growing global population?

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Innovation through virtual product development

While travel restrictions due to Covid-19 , our Product Development Centres is offering real-time, high-resolution live streaming of product trials.

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The quest to preserve food and drink

Tetra Pak pioneered the development of aseptic packaging in the 1960s - described as ‘the greatest food innovation of the twentieth century’

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Dairy-free and disruptive ice cream dreams

These days, ice cream innovation is all about plant-based. And most of it takes place in the ‘Silicon Valley of ice cream’ in a city called Aarhus, Denmark.

Dairy-free and disruptive ice cream dreams⁠

Do you have an invention within our field of business?

Do you, or your company, have an invention that could be revolutionary for the food packaging industry in the future, or simply a technology, method or design that could support the packaging of food products for tomorrow's consumers? Tetra Pak may welcome and have an interest in the further development, if your invention meets the need for Tetra Pak's present or future product portfolio.

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