Tetra Pak: A Paradigm of Packaging in the Food and Beverage Industry and Its Development Prospects I
Tetra Pak: A Paradigm of Packaging in the Food and Beverage Industry and Its Development Prospects I. A of Tetra Pak's Development History Starting from the Innovative Invention of a Swedish Engineer Tetra Pak was born in the 1950 in Sweden. Its founder, Ruben Rausing, perceived the many drawbacks of traditional glass bottles used for milk packaging, such as being fragile, having a short life, and high cleaning costs. At that time, milk was a daily necessity for Europeans, but it was limited in its wider and more convenient distribution and storage to its packaging. With his innovative thinking, Rausing led his team in research and development, eventually creating a tetrahedral paper package. This package is made multi-layer composite materials, offering many advantages, the most notable of which is that it allows milk to be preserved at room temperature for more than six months, significantly its shelf life. This was a major breakthrough in the field of food packaging at the time. In 1952, Tetra Pak's first machine delivered to the Lund Dairy Association (Lundaortens Mejeriförening). In November of the same year, milk in tetrahedral packages began be sold in the market. With this innovative packaging technology, Tetra Pak quickly gained market recognition, capturing a large share of the dairy packaging market in Northern Europe just four years. This demonstrated its strong market competitiveness and laid a solid foundation for its subsequent global expansion.
