Tetra Pak carton packaging for vodka. The tetra pak company presented six new packaging products. Bureau of Food Development

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Tetra Pak was founded in 1951 by Ruben Rausing in Lund (Sweden) as a division of Åkerlund & Rausing, and was based on the invention of Eric Wallenberg - tetrahedral packaging, after which the company was named. Commercial success came to Tetra Pak in the 1960s and 1970s with the introduction of Tetra Brik packaging and aseptic technology. This has greatly simplified the system of food delivery and storage. From the early 1950s to the mid-1990s, the company was headed by Ruben Rausing's two sons, Hans and Gad, who from family business, in which six employees worked in 1954, literally created a transnational corporation.

Tetra Pak is now the world's largest manufacturer of packaging for food products operating in more than 170 countries and having more than 22 thousand employees (as of 2011). The company is part of the Swiss concern Tetra Laval, along with DeLaval, a supplier of equipment for dairy farms, and Sidel, a manufacturer. plastic bottles... The company's headquarters are located in Lund (Sweden) and Lausanne (Switzerland).

History

Tetra Pak was founded in 1951 as a division of Åkerlund & Rausing, founded in Malmö in 1929 by Ruben Rausing and Erik Åkerlund, to produce carton packaging for food. Ruben Rausing, who studied in New York in the early 1920s, saw self-service grocery stores in America for the first time, then unknown in Europe, and realized that primary packaging was the future. retail food products... It was a more hygienic and practical way of distributing basic foodstuffs than the European counterparts selling at the time, wrapped in paper or poured into bulky glass bottles. In the late 1920s, together with the industrialist Erik Åkerlund, he bought a dilapidated packaging factory in Malmö. Åkerlund & Rausing became the first packaging company in Scandinavia and subsequently the largest manufacturer of dry food cartons. However, initially Åkerlund & Rausing was not particularly profitable, and in 1933 Åkerlund sold his stake to Rausing, who became the sole owner of the business.

Becoming

Åkerlund & Rausing produced different kinds paper packaging for dry food, but Rausing also set out to find a way to pack liquids such as milk and cream, and spent a lot of money developing such packaging. It was necessary to ensure optimal preservation and hygiene of the product, as well as efficiency of distribution, using the minimum amount of material - in accordance with the later famous principle "packaging should save more than it costs". The new packaging had to be cheap enough to compete with draft milk; this meant a minimum of waste in production and maximum efficiency.

In 1943, the Åkerlund & Rausing laboratory began developing cartons for milk, and in 1944, Eric Wallenberg, then the head of the research laboratory, came up with the idea of constructing a tetrahedral packaging from a paper cylinder. The concept was simple and effective: the material was utilized in an optimal way. After overcoming initial doubts, Rausing realized the potential of such packaging and applied for a patent on March 27, 1944. Until the end of the decade, the company's employees focused on developing suitable packaging materials and solving technical problems such as filling, sealing and distribution.

It is believed that the proposal to continuously seal the packages while filling the cylinder with milk, as is the case in the manufacture of sausages - to prevent oxygen from entering the package - came from Rausing's wife, Elizabeth. In 1946, engineer Harri Jerund presented a model of a packaging machine, and in cooperation with Swedish pulp and paper mills and foreign chemical companies, they finally managed to develop a material suitable for packaging: the cardboard was covered with polyethylene, which made the paper airtight and allowed the bags to be heat-sealed while filling them. ..

Activity history

AB Tetra Pak was founded in Lund (Sweden) in 1951. In May of the same year, a new packaging system was presented to the press, and in 1952 the first packaging machine was delivered to the local dairy plant Lundaortens, designed for filling cream in tetrahedral bags with a capacity of 100 ml. In subsequent years, tetrahedral packages were increasingly seen on the counters of Swedish grocery stores, and in 1954 a dairy plant in Stockholm purchased the first line for filling milk in 500 ml bags. In the same year, the first car went to Hamburg (Germany), followed by France (1954), Italy (1956), Switzerland (1957), and later - the Soviet Union (1959) and Japan (1962).

Various projects - tetrahedron, aseptic packaging technology, Tetra Brik - all required huge investments, so the company's financial difficulties continued into the 1960s. The commercial breakthrough for Tetra Pak only took place in the mid-1960s with the introduction of the new Tetra Brik packaging in 1963 and the development of aseptic technology. Additional funds were obtained from the sale of Åkerlund & Rausing in 1965; AB Tetra Pak remained in the same hands. In the early 1960s, international expansion began: in 1960, the first packaging plant outside Sweden was built in Mexico, and in 1962 a similar plant appeared in the United States. In 1962, the Tetra Classic Aseptic was installed for the first time outside Europe, in Lebanon. The late 1960s and 1970s saw a global expansion of the company, thanks in large part to the new Tetra Brik Aseptic aseptic packaging, which began sales in 1969. It has opened up new markets in developing countries and has become a powerful driver of sales growth.

Mergers and acquisitions

In 1981, Tetra Pak moved its headquarters to Lausanne, Switzerland, however all research and development activities were still carried out in Lund. In 1991, Tetra Pak acquired the Swedish company Alfa-Laval AB, a world leader in the manufacture of equipment for various industries, including food. This deal was the largest takeover to date in Sweden. By allowing Tetra Pak to leverage Alfa Laval's food processing technologies, the merger helped create comprehensive processing and packaging solutions for the new combined company's customers. The deal attracted the attention of the European Commission's antitrust authority, but the takeover took place after the two companies made various concessions.

Following the merger with Alfa Laval, Tetra Pak announced plans to return its headquarters to Sweden, and in 1993 the Tetra Laval concern was created with joint headquarters in Lund and Lausanne. Alfa Laval's liquid handling business was taken over by Tetra Pak, and the dairy part of the company was spun off into a separate structure called Alfa Laval Agri. Alfa Laval Agri was later renamed DeLaval, after Alfa Laval founder Gustave de Laval; this company is still part of the Tetra Laval concern. A division of Alfa Laval that is not directly related to Tetra Pak's activities - among others, heat exchangers and separation equipment - was sold in 2000 to the Swedish financial group Industri Kapital. In 2001, Tetra Laval acquired the French plastic packaging group Sidel. The merger was banned by the European Commission on the grounds that both Tetra Pak and Sidel were market leaders in their respective sectors while operating in related areas. In the end, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of Tetra Laval.

Owners and management

The Tetra Laval group is controlled by the holding company Tetra Laval International, whose board of directors includes Gad Rausing's three children. The Gad Rausing family has control over the company.

Activity

Tetra Pak is represented worldwide by 40 companies that are divisions of Tetra Pak International SA. The company operates in over 170 countries. Since the relative cost of Tetra Pak's final products is low, developing countries have become an important market for the company from the outset.

In 2011, the company had an annual turnover of 10.36 billion euros. Tetra Laval's FY 2010/2011 report states that Tetra Pak's growth has been particularly strong in the markets of China, Southeast Asia, of Eastern Europe as well as Central and South America. Rising incomes in these markets are driving greater consumption of protein-rich foods, in particular dairy, and Tetra Pak has announced a 10% increase in investment in emerging markets to more than € 200 million (2009). Having committed nearly 200 million euros to the creation of new packaging plants in Russia (2007) and China (2008), in 2011 Tetra Pak announced the construction of similar plants in India and Pakistan to meet the growing demand. The new factories in the Indian Peninsula are also expected to be able to supply the markets in the Middle East, where similar growth has been observed. According to the newspaper Financial Times, the increase in milk consumption in emerging markets has particularly affected UHT milk, which is easier to transport and safer; this is beneficial for Tetra Pak's business, which accounts for two-thirds of its sales in aseptic packaging. Tetra Pak's most popular product is the Tetra Brik Aseptic package, which has been a bestseller since the 1970s. In May 2011, Tetra Pak began producing the first aseptic carton milk bottle called Tetra Evero Aseptic.

Plants for the production of packaging: 42
Number of countries where the company operates: 170
Market Companies: 38
Sales offices: 79
Number of staff: 22 896
Number of packages produced in 2011 (million): 167,002
Revenue in 2011 (million euros): 10,360

Products

Aseptic technology

Aseptic packaging technology is the main invention of Tetra Pak. In aseptic processing, product and packaging are sterilized separately, after which the packaging is filled with product and sealed under sterile conditions. When an aseptic container is filled with UHT contents (liquid such as milk or juice, or processed foods such as vegetables and fruits), it can be stored without refrigeration for up to a year.

Package

Waste recycling

Tetra Pak began to deal with the problem of recycling in the mid-1980s, and already in 1990 the company introduced a recycling program for its cardboard packaging in Canada. In 2000, Tetra Pak invested 20 million baht (€ 500,000) in the first aseptic packaging recycling plant in Southeast Asia, located in Thailand. In 2010, 30 billion used Tetra Pak packages were recycled, double the number in 2002. As of 2011, 20% of used Tetra Pak packages are recycled globally, with countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain and Norway recycling more than 50% [ ]. To increase the amount of recyclable waste and achieve compliance target indicators, Tetra Pak has taken the lead in organizing the recycling process, including helping to develop waste collection schemes, promoting new recycling technologies and raising public awareness of waste management and the wise use of resources [ ] .

Social projects

Bureau of Food Development

Tetra Pak has a long history of social projects: for 45 years the company has supported the School Milk and School Nutrition programs. In the late 1970s, Ruben Rausing personally took part in a joint project between the World Food Program, the World Bank and Tetra Pak, which aimed to provide Indian families with surplus milk produced in the West.

The Bureau of Food Development program was created to improve nutrition and health for people around the world and to fight poverty. The program focuses on feeding in schools and providing schoolchildren with milk, but resources are also being devoted to improving management practices. Agriculture and processing of dairy products, including training farmers to increase their efficiency and the safety of their food products. This is beneficial for Tetra Pak itself as it helps build relationships and secure supply in less developed markets. Tetra Pak works closely with local governments and public organizations to monitor the implementation and development of such programs [ ] .

In St. Petersburg, in 2016, Tetra-Pak Rus abandoned its program to support the processing of its products.

School milk

The School Milk Program is an international initiative to provide milk to children and adolescents in educational institutions... The program has been implemented in 70 countries of the world for 80 years. Since 1970, the program has been supported by Tetra Pak.

Disaster relief

Tetra Pak provided support to earthquake victims in Haiti and Japan in 2010 and 2011, during the 2010 Russian forest fires, during the 2010 Pakistani floods and 2011 in Thailand [ ]. In China, Tetra Pak helped improve food security as well as the introduction of modern methods in dairy production after the 2008 melamine poisoning scandal. Although Tetra Pak was not involved in the scandal, it had a detrimental effect on the packaged milk market in China. As the Financial Times writes, it was not just a charitable initiative, but an attempt to secure the future of this market, allowing the industry to become safer, more environmentally friendly and more efficient.

In Russia, the company's products have been known for more than half a century. In the late 1950s, the Soviet government signed the first contract with Tetra Pak to supply equipment for the dairy industry, and soon several Soviet factories were equipped with liquid packaging lines in Tetra Classic. In the 1970s, with the help of Tetra Pak, the Chertanovsky (later - Tsaritsynsky) dairy plant was built in Moscow, where the company installed 20 Tetra Brik packaging lines.

In the late 1980s, among the first foreign companies Tetra Pak decided to establish joint ventures in the Soviet Union. In Lipetsk, the company took part in a joint venture for the production of juices, and in Podolsk it opened an equipment assembly facility and a service center. Joint ventures for the production of packaging materials were established in Kiev and Timashevsk.

Now the interests of the company in Russia are represented by subsidiary Tetra Pak JSC. Tetra Pak has a packaging material production plant in Lobnya (Moscow region), the largest in Eastern Europe. In total, 520 Tetra Pak lines for filling liquid food products have been installed at Russian food enterprises.

The central office of Tetra Pak in Russia is located in Moscow and the regional office is located in Krasnodar. The number of Tetra Pak employees in Russia exceeds 700 people.

Probably almost everyone has heard the phrase Tetra Pak. It is not surprising - almost all juice packaging on our market is produced with the logo of this company. It has become so tightly used that they began to call any cardboard packaging "tetrapacks", as well as "copiers" - any copiers. This is what Tetra Pak's marketing department is trying hard to fight. And it seems to me in vain - after all, this is real national recognition.

I recently managed to get on a tour (thanks mosblog ) for the Tetra Pak plant producing packaging for juices and milk. Although this is not the only product of the company, it is the most familiar to the end customer.
We looked at how the packaging for milk and juice is made, and at the same time we were told about the history of the company and what else it produces.
I share my impressions

After the war in Europe, the problem of providing the population with long-lasting products arose.
In 1951 a young engineer Ruben Rausing founds AB Tetra Pak in Lund, Sweden. Tetra Pak is still headquartered in Lund.
And in September 1952, the first Tetra Pak packaging machine is delivered to the Lund dairy.
This is how it was (photo from www.tetrapak.com)

This machine made the famous "triangles". Hence the name of the company. And this shape turned out when Ruben twisted a paper cylinder in his hands and crumpled it into a tetrahedron shape.
By the way, I did it too :)

Tetra Pak came to our country for the first time ... guess? We didn't guess. And even with a hint about the USSR, they did not guess.
And it was in 1959. Then the first contract was signed for the supply of 8 packaging machines of the Tetra Classic format, which were supposed to pack milk in the same triangles familiar to us (for those who were born in the USSR). And right away in the hall there was a whisper, “Skunkers! Who does not remember how they flowed! I had to go through them in order to choose a whole one. " As it turned out, our machines were quickly copied, without bothering with patents and other copyrights, but copied poorly. And the production of these bad copies - it then flowed along all the seams. At that time, Tetra Pak had to leave the market and the contract was terminated.

The second coming is the end of the 80s. In 1989, the Tetra Pak office appeared in Moscow. It all started with 3 people, and now the administrative apparatus has more than 300 employees. In 1991, an office and a factory were opened in Kiev.

In 2007, a packaging factory was built in Lobnya, where we came to visit. This is the largest factory in Eastern Europe.

Tetra Pak's slogan “Keeping the best” refers not only to the products, but also to the company's personnel and the wood from which the cardboard is produced for packaging.
All employees of the factory, and there are about 300 of them, eat for free in the factory canteen (we tried it - very worthy, much better than in the business center Nagatino, in which I work, not to mention the fact that they also take money from me for this disgrace ). There is parking on the territory of the factory and it is also free (unlike the same business center). I asked if there was a long queue for them to work:
- You understand, we have such a small turnover that there is no queue as such. But if the place is vacated, yes, there are always a lot of people willing.

Recycled products from Tetra Pak packaging can be used to make various useful things, such as stadium coverings. Alas, in our country this topic is still extremely poorly developed.
But such a shop made of recycled packaging is located near the main entrance.

The factory participates in the wood reproduction program. All paper that is used at the factory is produced from raw materials only from those forestry enterprises where there is no clear cut, and the same volume of new forest is planted instead of the cut.

The factory has more than 220 partners in Russia. These are producers of not only milk and juices, but also cheese, wine, ice cream, baby food, animal feed and even chocolate. Tetra Pak supplies them not only with the packaging itself, but also packaging lines, pasteurizers and other complexes for food processing. The company can establish a full production cycle from raw materials to packaged products and carry out service maintenance equipment.

As we were told, there are programs in our country for supplying schoolchildren with a daily package of milk (200g) and Tetra Pak participates in this program not only with packages, but also with lines for ultra-pasteurization of milk. Ultra-pasteurization is a very fast process, in 4 seconds, heating up to 137 degrees and cooling milk. It is believed that this allows you to kill harmful bacteria to the maximum, but preserve the beneficial properties. It turns out that in our country, according to GOST of 2007, only UHT milk is allowed in schools and kindergartens. Here, and at the same time take part in the drawing: http://www.omoloke.com/landingpage/.

The factory we visited every day produces about 400 million packages. Rather, blanks for packaging. Then they go to the shops of food manufacturers and there they turn into packages. And, although all packaging will continue to undergo disinfection, but at the Tetra Pak factory itself, a rather strict regime is observed. In order to get inside, we were asked to leave all backpacks and jackets outside. Put on robes and tuck your hair under hats. Take off the watch and Jewelry.

Fill out health questionnaires

And even! Change your shoes.
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the offered shoes

A quick look at the workshop from above

And we go to the printing shop.

Films for flexo printing are prepared here

Each such film is one color

Printers, if these huge colossus that stand in the neighboring workshop can be called that, are designed for 6 basic and 1 custom color.
For reference: regular printing, which makes most of the printing products, contains 4 colors.

Library

From the printing shop we go to the main room. It is quite spacious, with wide empty passages between cars - there are automatic loaders working there. We were very much asked not to get under the wheels of this and walk only along the grandmother in the pedestrian zones marked in yellow. But one such forklift parked along the markings and sleeps

Rolls of paper are waiting for their turn in the printer. Such a roll contains 4.6 km of paper.
One liter rectangular bag is 24.5 cm.
There are two printers in the workshop. The length of each is 120 meters.
Maximum speed machines 600 m per minute.

This "gate" is the printer *.
Such a machine is serviced by 4 operators.
* The blue plate is "smeared" at the request of the production representatives, so as not to show the characteristics of the machine.

A roll of paper is thinner than 2 tons of weight and 13 km of paper. Of course, it is broken, and therefore each machine is equipped with a gluing unit. In it, at a frantic speed (13 km in 20 minutes), the rolls are rewound and the joints are glued

Distracted by colored lights

And you have to run 100 meters, catching up with the group. I ran along the printer - it sounds nice :)

Each section prints from one film and one color.
Here, obviously, red

Print check

I'm distracted again

And rewind again

Now that the picture is ready

It's time to remember what our package consists of. In addition to cardboard ( Russian production) and paints (water-based) we still need aluminium foil and polyethylene granules (imported). Each package will have 6 layers

1.the outer layer - polyethylene - protects against moisture
2.cardboard body - gives rigidity and shape
3.Polyethylene sealing paper with aluminum foil
4.foil - protects the product from light and air
5. another tie layer of polyethylene
6.Layer of food grade polyethylene to seal the package

The next step is a laminator. This is a machine into which granules are poured, they melt there and at high speed the fused polyethylene spreads over the packaging surface. Roughly the same thing happens with the rest of the polyethylene layers, not only with the surface. Before the laminator, the bobbins are rewound and checked again.
The laminator is the most sophisticated and secret machine in the shop and was asked to take a moderate amount of photographs. I hope I succeeded.

Control room

The maximum speed of the laminator is 650 m per minute. It is served by 5 people. Since the laminator cannot be stopped without loss (after all, all the molten polyethylene will have to be drained from it - and this is several tons), the entire factory works 24 hours, 7 days a week. Working shift 8 hours.

After gluing all the layers - by the way, I never saw where they hide the foil, the rolls are cut into "buns" one bag wide, packed in thermal film and these blanks are sent to factories, where the final product is packed into them.

All operations are scheduled in steps

And here and there on the floor it is indicated exactly which steps are being taken here.

Well, for the entourage

Rejected seal

Waste paint buckets

The workshops are clean and light. Quite noisy - staff wear headphones or earplugs. Earplugs can be taken at the entrance to the workshop - they are distributed to everyone there. There you need to wash or wipe your hands with disinfection, or wear gloves. The workshops are maintained at a certain temperature and humidity. Slightly drawn by a familiar familiar scent.
- what kind of smell is there, probably chemistry? - asked one of the participants of the excursion
- it smells like a fused bag - it dawned on me. And the truth is not strong, but closer to the laminator there is a distinct smell of melting polyethylene (tourists and those who accidentally welded packages with an iron know this smell).

And in front of the entrance, in addition to the blue-green shop made of packages (visible in the background), there is a foundation stone

It is a pity that we were not able to see how the packaging itself is obtained from the blanks, but these are already other enterprises, and we looked at what was deployed in Lobnya.

▲ € 10.36 billion (2011)

Number of employees

22 896 people

Parent company Site

Tetra Pak(pronounced Tetra Pak) is a multinational company of Swedish origin. The company manufactures packaging, packaging machines and equipment for the processing of liquid food products, as well as equipment for group packaging.

Tetra Pak was founded in 1951 by Ruben Rausing (Swede. Ruben rausing) in Lund (Sweden) as a division of the Åkerlund & Rausing company, and its activity was based on the invention of Eric Wallenberg - tetrahedral packaging, after which the company was named. Commercial success came to Tetra Pak in the 1960s and 1970s with the introduction of Tetra Brik packaging and aseptic technology. This has greatly simplified the system of food delivery and storage. From the early 1950s to the mid-1990s, the company was led by Ruben Rausing's two sons, Hans and Gad, who literally created a multinational corporation from the family business, which had six employees in 1954.

Tetra Pak is now the world's largest food packaging manufacturer in terms of sales, with operations in more than 170 countries and more than 22,000 employees (as of 2011). The company is part of the Swiss concern Tetra Laval, along with DeLaval, a supplier of equipment for dairy farms, and Sidel, a manufacturer of plastic bottles. The company's headquarters are located in Lund (Sweden) and Lausanne (Switzerland).

History

Founder of the company Ruben Rausing

Tetra Pak was founded in 1951 as a division of Åkerlund & Rausing, founded in Malmö in 1929 by Ruben Rausing and Erik Åkerlund, to produce carton packaging for food. Ruben Rausing, who studied in New York in the early 1920s, first saw self-service grocery stores in America, then unknown in Europe, and realized that primary packaging was the future of grocery retail. It was a more hygienic and practical way of distributing basic foodstuffs than the European counterparts selling at the time, wrapped in paper or poured into bulky glass bottles. In the late 1920s, together with the industrialist Erik Åkerlund, he bought a dilapidated packaging factory in Malmö. Åkerlund & Rausing became the first packaging company in Scandinavia and subsequently the largest manufacturer of dry food cartons. However, initially Åkerlund & Rausing was not particularly profitable, and in 1933 Åkerlund sold his stake to Rausing, who became the sole owner of the business.

Becoming

Åkerlund & Rausing produced various types of paper packaging for dry food, but Rausing also set out to find a way to pack liquids such as milk and cream, and spent significant funds on developing such packaging. It was necessary to ensure optimal preservation and hygiene of the product, as well as efficiency of distribution, using the minimum amount of material - in accordance with the later famous principle "packaging should save more than it costs". The new packaging had to be cheap enough to compete with draft milk; this meant a minimum of waste in production and maximum efficiency.

In 1943, the Åkerlund & Rausing laboratory began developing cartons for milk, and in 1944, Eric Wallenberg, then the head of the research laboratory, came up with the idea of constructing a tetrahedral packaging from a paper cylinder. The idea was simple but effective: the material was used in an optimal way. After overcoming initial doubts, Rausing realized the potential of such packaging and applied for a patent on March 27, 1944. Until the end of the decade, the company's employees focused on developing suitable packaging materials and solving technical problems such as filling, sealing and distribution.

Activity history

AB Tetra Pak was founded in Lund (Sweden) in 1951. In May of the same year, the press was presented with a new packaging system, and in 1952 the first packaging machine was delivered to the local dairy plant Lundaortens, designed for filling cream in tetrahedral bags with a capacity of 100 ml. In subsequent years, tetrahedral packages were increasingly seen on the counters of Swedish grocery stores, and in 1954 a dairy plant in Stockholm purchased the first line for filling milk in 500 ml bags. In the same year, the first car went to Hamburg (Germany), followed by France (1954), Italy (1956), Switzerland (1957), and later - the Soviet Union (1959) and Japan (1962).

Mergers and acquisitions

In 1981, Tetra Pak moved its headquarters to Lausanne, Switzerland, however all research and development activities were still carried out in Lund. In 1991, Tetra Pak acquired the Swedish company Alfa-Laval AB, a world leader in the manufacture of equipment for various industries, including food. This deal was the largest takeover to date in Sweden. By allowing Tetra Pak to leverage Alfa Laval's food processing technologies, the merger helped create comprehensive processing and packaging solutions for the new combined company’s customers. The deal attracted the attention of the European Commission's antitrust authority, but the takeover took place after the two companies made various concessions.

Owners and management

Activity

The range of packaging produced by Tetra Pak

In 2011, the company had an annual turnover of 10.36 billion euros. Tetra Laval's fiscal 2010/2011 report indicates that Tetra Pak's growth has been particularly strong in the markets of China, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Central and South America. Rising incomes in these markets are driving greater consumption of protein-rich foods, in particular dairy, and Tetra Pak has announced a 10% increase in investment in emerging markets to more than € 200 million (2009). Having committed nearly 200 million euros to the creation of new packaging plants in Russia (2007) and China (2008), in 2011 Tetra Pak announced the construction of similar plants in India and Pakistan to meet the growing demand. The new factories in the Indian Peninsula are also expected to be able to supply the markets in the Middle East, where similar growth has been observed. According to the Financial Times, the increase in milk consumption in emerging markets has particularly affected UHT milk, which is easier to transport and safer; this is beneficial for Tetra Pak's business, which accounts for two-thirds of its sales in aseptic packaging. Tetra Pak's most popular product is the Tetra Brik Aseptic package, which has been a bestseller since the 1970s. In May 2011, Tetra Pak began producing the first aseptic carton milk bottle called Tetra Evero Aseptic.

Plants for the production of packaging: 42
Number of countries where the company operates: 170
Market Companies: 38
Sales offices: 79
Number of staff: 22 896
Number of packages produced in 2011 (million): 167,002
Revenue in 2011 (million euros): 10,360

Products

Aseptic technology

Package

Waste recycling

Tetra Pak began to deal with the problem of recycling in the mid-1980s, and already in 1990 the company introduced a recycling program for its cardboard packaging in Canada. In 2000, Tetra Pak invested 20 million baht (€ 500,000) in the first aseptic packaging recycling plant in Southeast Asia, located in Thailand. In 2010, 30 billion used Tetra Pak packages were recycled, double the number in 2002. As of 2011, 20% of used Tetra Pak packages are recycled globally, with countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain and Norway recycling more than 50%. To increase the amount of waste recycled and meet targets, Tetra Pak has taken a lead role in the recycling process, including helping to develop waste collection schemes, promoting new recycling technologies and raising awareness about waste management and the wise use of resources.

Social projects

Bureau of Food Development

Tetra Pak has been involved in social projects for a long time: for 45 years the company has supported the School Milk and School Meals programs. In the late 1970s, Ruben Rausing personally took part in a joint project between the World Food Program, the World Bank and Tetra Pak, which aimed to provide Indian families with surplus milk produced in the West.

The Bureau of Food Development program was created to improve nutrition and health for people around the world and to fight poverty. While the program focuses on school feeding and milk supply for schoolchildren, resources are also being devoted to improving agricultural and dairy processing practices, including training farmers to improve their efficiency and the safety of their food. This is beneficial for Tetra Pak itself as it helps build relationships and secure supply in less developed markets. Tetra Pak works closely with local governments and civil society organizations to oversee the implementation and development of such programs.

School milk

The School Milk Program is an international initiative to provide milk to children and adolescents in educational institutions. The program has been implemented in 70 countries of the world for 80 years. Since 1970, the program has been supported by Tetra Pak.

Disaster relief

Tetra Pak provided support to earthquake victims in Haiti and Japan in 2010 and 2011, during the 2010 Russian forest fires, during the 2010 Pakistani floods and 2011 in Thailand. In China, Tetra Pak has helped improve food security as well as the introduction of modern methods in dairy production since the 2008 melamine poisoning scandal. Although Tetra Pak was not involved in the scandal, it had a detrimental effect on the packaged milk market in China. According to the Financial Times, it was not just a charitable initiative, but an attempt to secure the future of this market, allowing the industry to become safer, more environmentally friendly and more efficient. It was reported that the training program was very successful, as a result of which the standards of work with dairy products have increased significantly

If something is stored for a very long time without losing its useful qualities, this does not mean that it is not natural!
;-)
This is the most important thing that I remember from their tours of the Tetra Pak factory in Lobnya, where aseptic packaging is made from which you drink your favorite brands of milk and juices. I will tell you about the second plant in Gatchina, where milk and dairy products are produced using Tetra Pak equipment, in the next post.

2. The TetraPak Factory has opened in Lobnya (Moscow region) in 2007

3. The receiving party is at the shield, where it is written what is not allowed and what is necessary to visit the production

4. In general, I was very surprised how much everything needs to be done just in order to have the right to get out the door, where the packaging is made!

I filled out and signed a questionnaire, where I assured that I am safe and can breathe the same air with the packaging;)))
- took off his shoes and put on the shift given to us at the entrance
- took off his wedding ring, put it in the issued envelope, which was in my pocket until the end of the tour
- put on a robe
- put on a hat
- received earplugs, as it should be very noisy in the workshop
- put on an earpiece from the radio, in which he listened to the story of the Tetrapakovites

5. In the end, we looked like this:
pushba , rebro_a_dama , (if you didn't know)

Thanks for the photo sergeimac
6. And here is Sergei himself - "can you hear me? And I am not. So they hid!"
:))

7. Here we are in the holy of holies!

Aseptic packaging technology is one of the main inventions of Tetra Pak.
In aseptic processing, product and packaging are sterilized separately, after which the packaging is filled with product and sealed under sterile conditions.

When an aseptic package is filled with UHT contents (liquid like milk or juice, or processed foods like vegetables and fruits), it can be stored without refrigeration for up to a year !!!

8. But first there was a small lecture about the company.

How did I know that cardboard triangles with milk that were sold in the USSR and often leaked are an unsuccessful attempt to copy the Tetra Pak Classic packaging in the form of a tetrahedron.
Which, together with packing machines in the USSR, the company supplied back in 1961!
But apparently ours decided to save money. After all, it's cheaper to make your Zhiguli than to buy export fiat money.
Quality only suffers sometimes

9. I was surprised to learn that Tetra Pak is not only packaging for milk and juices!
It turns out that the company supplies equipment for the production of cheeses, ice cream, the same milk, juices and much more. And it occupies a significant market share in the world in this area!
That is, you can buy a whole turnkey plant from them!

10. Yes, yes - milk in schools - that's them too.

11. As a man who grew up in his own house and grazed the cows. I was always convinced that only fresh milk, which your mother brought you, is useful.
Although I am after childhood in subsistence farming in general, I am skeptical about any edible products not grown by my own hands.
;-)
The existence of UHT milk somehow passed me by.
The excursion has already turned out to be informative.

Ultra-pasteurization (aseptic pasteurization; English ultra-high temperature processing, abbreviated UHT) - a type of pasteurization (heat treatment process in order to extend the shelf life of a liquid food product), in which the liquid is heated for 1-2 seconds to a temperature of 135-150 ° C and immediately cooled to 4-5 ° C

12. I was impressed by the story about the farm equipped with Tetra Pak.
When the cows themselves go to milking, which is done by robots.
I haven’t seen any farms yet.

13. Finally, we begin to study directly production.
Rolls of cardboard are waiting in line at the printer.

14. Familiar pictures?

15. It can be seen that the workers of the factory are trained all the time.

16. The packaging creation process starts with prepress

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19. By carrying out heat treatments and using a laser, a workpiece is obtained
Each such film is one color

20. Look how many blanks there are already

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23. For manufacturing printed form takes about 5 hours

24. These forms are then loaded into the printing equipment.

25. Production capabilities allow to produce 4 billion packages per year in Lobnya

26. Robots dragging weights here without human intervention

27. So, three types of basic equipment - printer, laminator, cutter

28. Printer, or printing machine

car brand is smeared at the request of the company

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31. First, the roll is unrolled and the carton is cleaned.

32. Each department is responsible for applying its own individual color

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34. At the moment, printing is in progress, where only 3 colors are used

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37. Application of the first color

37. Applying red

39. And the third printer prints blue

40. Checking the quality at the print finish

41. The next step is lamination.

car brand is smeared at the request of the company

42. The most secret stage, here they asked not to photograph the equipment

A laminator is a machine into which polyethylene granules are poured, they melt there and at high speed the fused polyethylene spreads over the packaging surface.

Roughly the same thing happens with the rest of the polyethylene layers, not only with the surface. Before the laminator, the bobbins are rewound and checked again.

43. The maximum speed of the laminator is 650 m per minute. It is served by 5 people.
Since the laminator cannot be stopped without loss (after all, all the molten polyethylene will have to be drained from it - and this is several tons), the entire factory works 24 hours, 7 days a week. Working shift 8 hours.

Maintains the company's reputation at the # 1 level in Russia

About the Tetra Pak experience

Everything at Tetra Pak is open door. An open workspace has been created in the office: almost no one has an office, and most of the employees work in an open space. Everyone at Tetra Pak is free to contact a colleague or manager with a question, request, idea. This is probably one of the reasons why people stay here for a long time. The company even has a tradition: annually to congratulate those who have worked at Tetra Pak for more than 10 and 25 years. All this suggests that the company cares about its employees and is trying with all its might to keep them, which motivates them to work harder and develop.

About personal victories

Tetra Pak has existed for over 60 years, in Russia since 86. During this time, the company managed to become a leader in the packaging materials production market. It is a great responsibility for me to manage communications in a company with the strongest reputation in Russia, which is confirmed by research on brand perception in different markets.

About colleagues

Tetra Pak employees become friends. We spend a lot of time together at work, but we continue to communicate outside of it. For example, we have our own running club. In good weather, joggers gather at the Iskra stadium near our office and train, we even have our own hockey team... Some participate in marathons and competitions, while others join and root for support groups. It's normal for us to go on vacation together, spend weekends in the forest on skis, celebrate birthdays.

Provides legal support to Tetra Pak in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Work-life balance

How to manage to work as efficiently as possible and keep up with playing sports, spending time with loved ones? The mission is achievable: first, to set priorities, and second, to understand that you cannot sacrifice personal time for the sake of work. In some companies it is customary to linger after work, but not in Tetra Pak: here good employee- this is the one who manages to solve all their affairs within working hours.

About the level of communication

Tetra Pak succeeds in building friendly relations with colleagues because they try to select people who are similar in spirit and human qualities to the company. The employee at Tetra Pak is a high quality professional who is ready to share knowledge and does not hesitate to ask questions. This is someone who is actively involved in sports or is fond of something and finds like-minded people. People with similar interests and ambitions work here, so it is so easy for them to make friends.

About the first day

From the first day I felt the atmosphere of Tetra Pak: it's a place where friendly, open people work. Team building helps to create a comfortable environment. They can help you get to know people from different departments or meet colleagues from other regions. Yes, of course, there is competition, but it is healthy, necessary for the development of any company.

Provides technical support of Tetra Pak customers in Siberia and Far East.

About the main thing in work

I AM technical manager on work with customers in Siberia and the Far East. Most of all I like to communicate with a huge number of people from different regions with different lifestyles. Russia “there” is different from Russia “here”. Few people would think to spend their vacation in Kemerovo, but I travel around the country and recognize it. In addition to the fact that on frequent business trips I am enriched culturally and emotionally, the set pace of work keeps me in good shape.

About motivation

At Tetra Pak, everyone feels confident in the future and supported by the company. In my opinion, it is best motivation... The realization that the company values your work, is happy with ideas and is ready to support the initiative, encourages you to work with a vengeance. At Tetra Pak, you are encouraged to make your own decisions if they lead to the desired result. But you also need to be aware of the responsibility for possible mistakes.

About emotions

Before Tetra Pak, I worked at a Russian company and in a Western company with a completely Russian mentality. I can put it this way: in Tetra Pak, there simply does not exist that which is usually burdensome at work. Here, the right emotions are appreciated: when people do not allow themselves to raise their voices, to break down on colleagues, to take advantage of the position. Yes, we have conflicts, but we always find a constructive way out of any difficult situation.

Coordinates the activities of the entire factory.

About the beginning of the journey to Tetra Pak

Preparations for the construction of the Tetra Pak factory began on September 1, 2005, and I joined the team as a project manager. There was a lot I didn't know then, but fortunately there is an On-job Training program. It allows you to undergo training in different departments of the company for 3-4 months, to deal with additional projects in parallel with the main one. I passed it, and it helped me quickly understand how working at Tetra Pak works.

About the ideal employee

The ideal Tetra Pak employee is a highly motivated person at work and in personal life: he wants to be first, but knows how to work in a team. He learns and develops, and we help him in this. For example, with each employee we develop a plan career growth... If, in order to achieve his goal, he needs to learn something abroad, at another Tetra Pak factory, we are ready to organize it.

About motivation at Tetra Pak

In 2005, the turnover of personnel in production was 20%. This was due to the fact that the entry in work book about working for Tetra Pak was already highly regarded. We are a company that not only provides people with jobs, but also constantly trains our employees. Tetra Pak has a staff turnover rate of 4% today. This is an excellent indicator of how people value their work, the attitude of management towards employees and corporate values. Our core principles are customer focus and long-term vision, quality and innovation, partnership and pleasure, freedom and responsibility. There are a huge number of enterprises in which there is too much bureaucracy, and the initiative is punishable. At Tetra Pak, we welcome new ideas, we do not restrict employees in the freedom to make decisions necessary to fix the problem. We were one of the first in Russia to use the World Class Manufacturing program. This is a methodology of continuous improvement: everyone can, alone or in a team, come up with and develop an idea aimed at improving business or production processes. So at Tetra Pak everyone has the opportunity to show their professional skills and creativity. Yes, sometimes our employees make mistakes, but they learn from their mistakes. This is probably the essence of freedom and responsibility in corporate culture Tetra Pak.

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