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

Tetra Pak is now the world's largest producer of packaging for sales food productsoperating 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 of plastic bottles. The company's headquarters are located in Lund (Sweden) and Lausanne (Switzerland).

History

Tetra Pak was established in 1951 as a division of Åkerlund & Rausing, founded in 1929 in the city of Malmö by Ruben Rausing and Eric Okerlund, which produced cardboard packaging for products. Ruben Rausing, who was studying in New York in the early 1920s, first saw self-service grocery stores in America, unknown at that time in Europe, and realized that the future is in primary packaging retail groceries. It was a more hygienic and practical way of distributing basic foodstuffs than the sale in Europe at that time because of a counter of goods wrapped in paper or poured into bulky glass bottles. In the late 1920s, together with industrialist Eric Ackerlund, he bought a declining packaging factory in Malmö. Åkerlund & Rausing became the first packaging company in Scandinavia and subsequently became the largest manufacturer of cardboard packaging for dry food products. However, initially Åkerlund & Rausing was not particularly profitable, and in 1933, Okerlund sold his stake to Rausing, who became the sole owner of the business.

Becoming

Åkerlund & Rausing produced various types paper packaging for dry food products, but Rushing also intended 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 the optimal safety of the product and its hygiene, as well as distribution efficiency, using the minimum amount of material - in accordance with the subsequently become famous principle "packaging should save more than it costs." The new packaging was supposed to be cheap enough to compete with draft milk; this meant a minimum of waste in production and its maximum efficiency.

In 1943, the Åkerlund & Rausing laboratory began developing carton packaging for milk, and in 1944, Eric Wallenberg, the then acting head of the research laboratory, came up with the idea to design a tetrahedron-shaped packaging from a paper cylinder. The idea was simple and effective: the material was used optimally. Having overcome initial doubts, Rausing realized the potential of such packaging and on March 27, 1944 filed an application for a patent. Until the end of the decade, company employees were developing packaging materials and solving technical problems such as bottling, sealing, and distribution.

It is believed that the proposal to continuously seal the packaging during the filling of the cylinder with milk, as occurs in the manufacture of sausages - in order to prevent oxygen from entering the packaging - came from Rouse's wife Elizabeth. In 1946, engineer Harri Erund introduced a packaging machine model, and in collaboration with Swedish pulp and paper mills and foreign chemical companies, it was finally possible to develop packaging material: cardboard was covered with polyethylene, which made the paper airtight and allowed the bags to be sealed by heat sealing during filling. ..

Activity history

AB Tetra Pak was founded in Lund (Sweden) in 1951. In May of the same year, a new packaging system was introduced to the press, and in 1952 the first packaging machine was put into the local Lundaortens dairy, designed for filling cream in 100 ml tetrahedral bags. In subsequent years, tetrahedron packaging could increasingly be seen on the shelves of Swedish grocery stores, and in 1954 a dairy plant in Stockholm bought the first line for packing milk in 500 ml packets. In the same year, the first car went to Hamburg (Germany), then France (1954), Italy (1956), Switzerland (1957) followed, and then the Soviet Union (1959) and Japan (1962).

Various projects - a tetrahedron, aseptic packaging technology, Tetra Brik - all this required huge investments, so the financial difficulties of the company continued into the 1960s. The commercial breakthrough of Tetra Pak occurred only in the mid-1960s and was associated with the launch of the new Tetra Brik packaging in 1963, as well as 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 material factory outside Sweden was built in Mexico, and in 1962 a similar enterprise appeared in the United States. In 1962, the Tetra Classic Aseptic aseptic machine was first installed outside of Europe, in Lebanon. The company expanded globally in the late 1960s and 1970s, thanks in large part to the new Tetra Brik Aseptic aseptic packaging, which began selling in 1969. It allowed entering new markets in developing countries and became a powerful incentive for sales growth.

Mergers and Acquisitions

In 1981, Tetra Pak relocated its headquarters to Lausanne, Switzerland, but all research and development was 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 transaction was the largest acquisition at that time carried out in Sweden. By allowing Tetra Pak to use Alfa Laval technology in food processing, the merger helped create comprehensive processing and packaging solutions for the customers of the new merged company. The deal attracted the attention of the antitrust authority of the European Commission, but the takeover nevertheless took place after both 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 established with combined headquarters in Lund and Lausanne. The liquid processing division of Alfa Laval was acquired by Tetra Pak, and the part of the company that specialized in the production of equipment for dairy farms was separated into a separate structure called Alfa Laval Agri. Alfa Laval Agri was later renamed DeLaval, in honor of the founder of Alfa Laval, Gustav de Laval; this company is still part of the Tetra Laval concern. Alfa Laval, a division not directly linked to Tetra Pak's operations — among other things, manufacturing heat exchangers and separation equipment — was sold to Industri Kapital, a Swedish financial group, in 2000. In 2001, Tetra Laval acquired the French plastic packaging company Sidel. The merger was banned by the European Commission on the grounds that both Tetra Pak and Sidel held leading market positions in their sector while working in related fields. In the end, the European Court 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 three children of Gad Rausing. The Gad Rausing family has control in the company.

Activities

The interests of Tetra Pak around the world are represented by 40 companies, which are divisions of Tetra Pak International SA. The company operates in more than 170 countries. Since the relative cost of Tetra Pak's end products is low, developing countries have become an important market for the company from the very beginning.

In 2011, the company's annual turnover amounted to 10.36 billion euros. The Tetra Laval report for fiscal year 2010/2011 reports that the growth of Tetra Pak’s activity was particularly rapid in China, Southeast Asia, of Eastern Europeas well as Central and South America. Higher household incomes in these markets are driving greater consumption of protein-rich foods, particularly dairy products, and Tetra Pak management has announced an increase in investment in emerging markets by 10% to more than € 200 million (2009). Having spent nearly 200 million euros on 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 in order to meet growing demand. It is anticipated that new plants on the Indian Peninsula will also be able to provide products to markets in the Middle East, where there is a similar increase. According to the newspaper Financial times, increased milk consumption in emerging markets has particularly affected ultra-pasteurized milk, which is easier to transport and safer; this has a positive effect on the Tetra Pak business, two-thirds of its sales are in aseptic packaging. Tetra Pak's most popular product is the Tetra Brik Aseptic packaging, a bestseller since the 1970s. In May 2011, Tetra Pak launched the first aseptic carton milk bottle called Tetra Evero Aseptic.

Packaging Factories: 42
Number of countries where the company operates: 170
Market Companies: 38
Sales Offices: 79
Number of staff: 22,896
The number of packages produced in 2011 (million): 167 002
Revenues in 2011 (million euros): 10 360

Products

Aseptic technology

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

Packaging

Waste recycling

Tetra Pak began to deal with the problem of waste recycling in the mid-1980s, already in 1990 the company introduced in Canada a recycling program for its cardboard packaging. In 2000, Tetra Pak invested 20 million baht (€ 500,000) in Thailand's first aseptic packaging processing plant in Southeast Asia. In 2010, 30 billion used Tetra Pak packages were recycled: twice as much as in 2002. As of 2011, 20% of used Tetra Pak packages are recycled worldwide, with recycling volumes exceeding 50% in countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain and Norway [ ]. To increase the amount of recyclable waste and achieve compliance targetsTetra Pak has taken a leading role in organizing the recycling process, including promoting the development of waste collection schemes, promoting the introduction of new recycling technologies and raising public awareness of waste management and the wise use of resources [ ] .

Social projects

Food Development Bureau

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

The Food Development Bureau program was created to improve the nutrition and health of people around the world and to alleviate poverty. The main focus of this program is on school nutrition and the provision of milk for schoolchildren, but resources are also allocated for improving management practices. agriculture and processing dairy products, including training farmers to increase the efficiency of their work and the safety of their food products. This is also beneficial for Tetra Pak itself, as it helps build relationships and secure supplies in less developed markets. Tetra Pak works closely with local governments and public organizationsto 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 for 80 years. Since 1970, Tetra Pak has supported the program.

Disaster relief

Tetra Pak supported earthquakes in Haiti and Japan in 2010 and 2011, during forest fires in Russia in 2010, during floods in Pakistan in 2010 and in Thailand in 2011 [ ]. In China, Tetra Pak has contributed to enhancing food security, as well as introducing modern methods in dairy production after the 2008 melamine poisoning scandal. Although Tetra Pak was not involved in the scandal, it adversely affected the packaged milk market in China. According to the Financial Times, there was not just a charitable initiative, but also an attempt to secure the future of this market, which allowed 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 USSR government signed the first contract with Tetra Pak for the supply of equipment for the dairy industry, and soon several Soviet enterprises 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, on which 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 participated in a joint venture for the production of juices, and in Podolsk it opened facilities for the assembly of equipment and service center. Joint ventures for the production of packaging material were created in Kiev and Timashevsk.

Now the interests of the company in Russia are represented by a subsidiary of Tetra Pak JSC. Tetra Pak in Russia has a packaging material production plant in Lobny (Moscow Region), the largest in Eastern Europe. A total of 520 Tetra Pak liquid food bottling lines were 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.

Almost all heard the phrase Tetra Pak. It is not surprising - almost all packaging for juices in our market comes with the logo of this company. It is so tightly entered into everyday life that they began to call "tetrapacks" any cardboard packaging, as "photocopiers" - any copiers. What is Tetra Pak's marketing department relentlessly trying to fight? But it seems to me in vain - this is a real national recognition.

I recently managed to get on an excursion (thanks mosblog ) at the Tetra Pak plant, which produces packaging for juices and milk. Although this is not the only product of the company, but for the end customer - the most familiar.
We looked at how they make packaging for milk and juices, 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, there was an acute problem of providing the population with long-stored products.
In 1951, a young engineer, Ruben Rausing, founded AB Tetra Pak in Lund, Sweden. Lund still houses the headquarters of Tetra Pak.
And in September 1952, the first Tetra Pak packaging machine was delivered to a dairy in Lund.
Here's how it was (photo from www.tetrapak.com)

This machine made the famous "triangles". Hence the name of the company. And this form turned out when Ruben twisted a paper cylinder in his hands and crushed it into the shape of a tetrahedron.
Incidentally, I also succeeded :)

The first time Tetra Pak came to our country ... guess? We did not guess. And even with a hint about the USSR they did not guess.
And that 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 into the same triangles familiar to us (those who were born in the USSR). And right away in the hall there was a whisper “Hackers! Who does not remember how they flowed! I had to sort them out to select the whole. ” As it turned out, the cars we quickly copied without bothering with patents and other copyrights, but copied poorly. And here is the production of these bad copies - it then flowed at all seams. At that time, Tetra Pak had to leave the market, the contract was terminated.

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

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

The Tetra Pak slogan “Keeping the best” applies not only to products, but also to the company's staff and the wood from which cardboard is made for packaging.
All employees of the factory, and there are about 300 of them, eat free of charge in the factory cafeteria (we tried it - very worthy, much better than in the Nagatino business center, where I work, not to mention the fact that they take money from me for this mess ) On the territory of the factory there is parking and it is also free (unlike the same BC). I asked if there was a long line of work for them:
“You understand, we have such a small turnover that there is no line as such.” But if the place is vacated, yes, there are always many willing.

Various useful things can be made from Tetra Pak packaging processing products, such as stadium coverings. Alas, in our country this topic is still extremely poorly developed.
But such a shop from recycled packaging is near the main entrance

The factory participates in a wood reproduction program. All paper that is used in the factory is produced from raw materials only from those forestries where there is no clear cutting, and instead of the cut down, the same amount of new forest is planted.

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 with packaging lines, pasteurizers and other food processing systems. The company can establish a full production cycle from raw materials to a packaged product and carry out maintenance of equipment.

As we were told, there are programs in our country for supplying schoolchildren with a daily milk package (200 g) and Tetra Pak is involved 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 to 137 degrees and cooling the milk. It is believed that this allows you to kill harmful bacteria to the maximum, but maintain beneficial properties. It turns out that in our country, according to GOST from 2007, only ultra-pasteurized milk is allowed in schools and kindergartens. Here, and at the same time participate in the draw: 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 workshops of food manufacturers and already there they turn into packages. And, although all the packaging will be decontaminated further, a fairly strict regime is observed at the Tetra Pak factory itself. In order to get inside, we were asked to leave all the backpack bags and jackets outside. Put on bathrobes and put your hair under hats. Take off watches and jewelry.

Fill out health profiles

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

A quick look at the workshop from above

And we go to the printing workshop.

Here are preparing films for flexographic printing

Each such film is one color.

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

Library

From the print shop we go to the main room. It is quite spacious, with wide empty passages between the machines - automatic loaders work there. We were very asked not to get under such wheels and only walk around the grandmother in the pedestrian areas marked in yellow. But one such loader is parked on a marking and is sleeping

Rolls of paper are waiting in line for the printer. In such a roll 4.6 km of paper.
One liter rectangular bag is 24.5 cm.
There are two printers in the workshop. Each is 120 meters long.
Top speed cars 600 m per minute.

These "gates" are the printer *.
4 operators serve such a machine.
* The blue plate is “smeared” at the request of production representatives, so as not to shine the characteristics of the machine.

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

Distracted by multi-colored light bulbs

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

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

Print check

Distracted again

And rewinding into bobbins again

Now that the picture is ready

It's time to remember what our package consists of. In addition to cardboard (Russian-made) and paint (water-based), we still need aluminum foil and polyethylene granules (imported). Each package will consist of 6 layers

1. the outer layer - polyethylene - protects against moisture
2. cardboard case - gives rigidity and shape
3. polyethylene welding paper with aluminum foil
4. foil - protects the product from light and air
5. another bonding layer of polyethylene
6. a layer of food-grade polyethylene for sealing the packaging

The next step is the laminator. This is a machine into which granules are poured, they melt there and at a tremendous speed the melted polyethylene spreads over the packaging surface. About the same thing happens with the remaining layers of polyethylene, not only with the surface. Before the laminator, the reels are rewound and checked again.
The laminator is the most complex and secret machine in the workshop and it was asked not to take pictures very closely. 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 losses (after all, it will have to be drained of all the melted polyethylene - and this is several tons), then the entire factory operates 24 hours, 7 days a week. Work shift 8 hours.

After gluing all the layers - by the way, where I didn’t see the foil, I cut the rolls into “buns” one bag wide, pack them in thermal film and send these blanks to the plants where the final product is packaged in them

All operations are scheduled in steps.

And in some places on the floor it is indicated what steps are being taken here

Well, for the entourage

Rejected stamp

Spent paint buckets

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

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

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

▲ € 10.36 billion (2011)

Number of employees

22 896 people

Parent company Website

Tetra pak (pronounced Tetra Pak) is a multinational company of Swedish origin. The company produces packaging, packaging machines and equipment for processing 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 Åkerlund & Rausing, 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 advent of Tetra Brik packaging and aseptic technology. This greatly simplified the system of delivery and storage of products. From the beginning of the 1950s to the mid-1990s, the company was headed by the two sons of Ruben Rausing, Hans and Gad, who from a family business in which six employees worked in 1954, created a literally transnational corporation.

Now Tetra Pak is the world's largest producer of food packaging in terms of sales, 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 of plastic bottles. The company's headquarters are located in Lund (Sweden) and Lausanne (Switzerland).

History

Company founder Ruben Rausing

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

Becoming

Åkerlund & Rausing produced various types of paper packaging for dry foods, but Rushing also intended to find a way to pack liquids, such as milk and cream, and spent considerable money on developing such packaging. It was necessary to ensure the optimal safety of the product and its hygiene, as well as distribution efficiency, using the minimum amount of material - in accordance with the subsequently become famous principle "packaging should save more than it costs." The new packaging was supposed to be cheap enough to compete with draft milk; this meant a minimum of waste in production and its maximum efficiency.

In 1943, the Åkerlund & Rausing laboratory began developing carton packaging for milk, and in 1944, Eric Wallenberg, the then acting head of the research laboratory, came up with the idea to design a tetrahedron-shaped packaging from a paper cylinder. The idea was simple but effective: the material was used in an optimal way. Having overcome initial doubts, Rausing realized the potential of such packaging and on March 27, 1944 filed an application for a patent. Until the end of the decade, company employees were developing packaging materials and solving technical problems such as bottling, sealing, and distribution.

It is believed that the proposal to continuously seal the packaging during the filling of the cylinder with milk, as occurs in the manufacture of sausages - in order to prevent oxygen from entering the packaging - came from Rouse's wife Elizabeth. In 1946, engineer Harri Erund introduced a packaging machine model, and in collaboration with Swedish pulp and paper mills and foreign chemical companies, it was finally possible to develop packaging material: cardboard was covered with polyethylene, which made the paper airtight and made it possible to seal the bags with heat seal during filling.

Activity history

AB Tetra Pak was founded in Lund (Sweden) in 1951. In May of the same year, a new packaging system was introduced to the press, and in 1952, the first packaging machine was introduced at the local Lundaortens dairy, designed for filling cream in 100 ml tetrahedral bags. In subsequent years, tetrahedron packaging could increasingly be seen on the shelves of Swedish grocery stores, and in 1954 a dairy plant in Stockholm bought the first line for packing milk in 500 ml packets. In the same year, the first car went to Hamburg (Germany), then France (1954), Italy (1956), Switzerland (1957) followed, and then the Soviet Union (1959) and Japan (1962).

Mergers and Acquisitions

Following the merger with Alfa Laval, Tetra Pak announced plans to return its headquarters to Sweden, and in 1993, the Tetra Laval concern was established with combined headquarters in Lund and Lausanne. The liquid processing division of Alfa Laval was acquired by Tetra Pak, and the part of the company that specialized in the production of equipment for dairy farms was separated into a separate structure called Alfa Laval Agri. Alfa Laval Agri was later renamed DeLaval, in honor of the founder of Alfa Laval, Gustav de Laval; this company is still part of the Tetra Laval concern. Alfa Laval, a division not directly linked to Tetra Pak's operations - among other things, manufacturing heat exchangers and separation equipment - was sold to Industri Kapital, a Swedish financial group, in 2000. In 2001, Tetra Laval acquired the French plastic packaging company Sidel. The merger was banned by the European Commission on the grounds that both Tetra Pak and Sidel held leading market positions in their sector while working in related fields. In the end, the European Court ruled in favor of Tetra Laval.

Owners and management

Activities

Range of packaging manufactured by Tetra Pak

In 2011, the company's annual turnover amounted to 10.36 billion euros. The Tetra Laval report for the fiscal year 2010/2011 reports that the growth of Tetra Pak's activity was particularly rapid in the markets of China, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central and South America. Higher household incomes in these markets are driving greater consumption of protein-rich foods, particularly dairy products, and Tetra Pak management has announced a 10% increase in investment in emerging markets to more than € 200 million (2009). Having spent nearly 200 million euros on 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 in order to meet growing demand. It is anticipated that new factories on the Indian Peninsula will also be able to provide products to markets in the Middle East, where there is a similar increase. According to the Financial Times, increasing milk consumption in emerging markets has particularly affected ultra-pasteurized milk, which is easier to transport and safer; this has a positive effect on the Tetra Pak business, two-thirds of its sales are in aseptic packaging. Tetra Pak's most popular product is the Tetra Brik Aseptic packaging, a bestseller since the 1970s. In May 2011, Tetra Pak launched the first aseptic carton milk bottle called Tetra Evero Aseptic.

Packaging Factories: 42
Number of countries where the company operates: 170
Market Companies: 38
Sales Offices: 79
Number of staff: 22,896
The number of packages produced in 2011 (million): 167 002
Revenues in 2011 (million euros): 10 360

Products

Aseptic technology

Packaging

Waste recycling

Tetra Pak began to deal with the problem of waste recycling in the mid-1980s, already in 1990 the company introduced in Canada a recycling program for its cardboard packaging. In 2000, Tetra Pak invested 20 million baht (€ 500,000) in Thailand's first aseptic packaging processing plant in Southeast Asia. In 2010, 30 billion used Tetra Pak packages were recycled: twice as much as in 2002. As of 2011, 20% of used Tetra Pak packages are being recycled worldwide, with recycling volumes exceeding 50% in countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain and Norway. To increase the amount of recyclable waste and achieve its targets, Tetra Pak has taken a leading role in organizing the recycling process, including promoting the development of waste collection schemes, promoting the introduction of new recycling technologies and raising public awareness of waste management and the rational use of resources.

Social projects

Food Development Bureau

The Food Development Bureau program was created to improve the nutrition and health of people around the world and to alleviate poverty. The main focus of this program is on school feeding and providing schoolchildren with milk, but resources are allocated for improving agricultural practices and processing dairy products, including training farmers to increase their efficiency and the safety of their food products. This is also beneficial for Tetra Pak itself, as it helps build relationships and secure supplies in less developed markets. Tetra Pak works closely with local governments and community organizations to monitor the implementation and development of such programs.

School milk

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

Disaster relief

Tetra Pak supported earthquakes in Haiti and Japan in 2010 and 2011, during forest fires in Russia in 2010, during floods in Pakistan in 2010 and in Thailand in 2011. In China, Tetra Pak has contributed to enhancing food security, as well as introducing modern methods in dairy production after the 2008 melamine poisoning scandal. Although Tetra Pak was not involved in the scandal, it adversely affected the packaged milk market in China. According to the Financial Times, there was not just a charitable initiative, but also an attempt to secure the future of this market, which allowed the industry to become safer, more environmentally friendly and more efficient. It was reported that the training program was very successful, as a result, standards for working with dairy products have increased significantly

If something is stored for a very long time without losing useful qualities - this does not mean that it is not natural!
;-)
That's the most important thing that I remembered their tours of the Tetra Pak factory in Lobny, where aseptic packaging is made from which you drink your favorite brands of milk and juice. About the second factory in Gatchina, which produces milk and dairy products using Tetra Pak equipment, I will tell in the next post.

2. TetraPak factory opened in Lobny (Moscow region)in 2007

3. The host side of the shield, where it says what is impossible and what is necessary to visit the production

4. In general, I was very surprised how much should be done only in order to have the right to get out the door where they are packing!

Filled out and signed the questionnaire, where he assured me that I was safe and could breathe the same air with the package;)))
- took off his shoes and put on a shift given to us at the entrance
- took off the wedding ring, put it in the issued envelope, which until the end of the excursion lay in my pocket
- put on a dressing gown
- put on a hat
- received ear plugs, as in the workshop it should be very noisy
- put on a headphone with a 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 do not know)

Thanks for the photo sergeimac
6. And here’s Sergey himself - “can you hear me? And I don’t. So they hid!”
:))

7. Here we are in the holy of holies!

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

When an aseptic package is filled with ultra-pasteurized contents (liquid such as milk or juice, or processed products such as vegetables and fruits), it can be stored without cooling for up to a year !!!

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

How did I find out that cardboard triangles with milk, which were sold in the USSR and often leaked, were an unsuccessful attempt to copy the Tetra Pak Classic package in the form of a tetrahedron.
Which the company supplied with packaging machines in the USSR back in 1961!
But apparently ours decided to save. After all, making your own Lada is cheaper than buying export Fiat.
Quality only sometimes suffers

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

10. Yes, yes - milk in schools is also them.

11. As a man who grew up in his house and grazed cows. I was always convinced that only the fresh milk that your mother brought to you is useful.
Although I am after childhood in subsistence farming generally skeptical of any edible products not grown by their own hands.
;-)
The existence of ultra-pasteurized milk, as it passed me by.
The tour has already left informative.

Ultra-pasteurization (aseptic pasteurization; English ultra-high temperature processing, abbreviated UHT) is a type of pasteurization (heat treatment process 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 cool to 4-5 ° C

12. Impressed by the story of a farm equipped with Tetra Pak.
When the cows themselves come to the milking that the robots do.
I haven’t seen the farms live yet.

13. Finally, we begin to study production directly.
Cardboard rolls are waiting in line for the printer.

14. Familiar pictures?

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

16. The packaging process begins with prepress

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19. By performing thermal treatments and using a laser, a workpiece is obtained
Each such film is one color.

20. There are already so many blanks

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23. It takes about 5 hours to make a printing plate.

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

25. Production capabilities allow producing 4 billion packages a year in Lobn

26. Robots carrying heavy loads here without human intervention

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

28. Printer, or machine for printing

car make is smeared at the request of the company

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31. First comes roll unrolling and cardboard cleaning

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

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

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37. Application of the first color

37. Putting red

39. And the third printer prints blue

40. Quality control at the print finish

41. The next step is lamination.

car make 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 a tremendous speed the melted polyethylene spreads over the packaging surface.

About the same thing happens with the remaining layers of polyethylene, not only with the surface. Before the laminator, the reels 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 losses (after all, it will have to be drained of all the melted polyethylene - and this is several tons), then the entire factory operates 24 hours, 7 days a week. Work shift 8 hours.

Maintains the company's reputation at the level of No. 1 in Russia

About the sensations at Tetra Pak

At Tetra Pak, everything works according to the “open door” principle. An open workspace has been created in the office: almost no one has an office, and most of the employees work in open space. Everyone at Tetra Pak is free to contact a colleague or manager with a question, wish, idea. This is probably one of the reasons why people stay here for a long time. The company even has a tradition: annually 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 to keep them by all means, which motivates to work more diligently, to develop.

About personal victories

Tetra Pak has existed for over 60 years, in Russia - since the 86th year. During this time, the company managed to become a leader in the packaging materials manufacturing market. It is my great responsibility 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 also continue to communicate outside. For example, we have our own running club. In fine 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 a support group and cheer for them. It’s normal for us to go relaxing together, spend the weekend skiing in the forest, and celebrate birthdays.

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

On the balance between work and personal life

How to manage to work as efficiently as possible and manage to play sports, spend time with loved ones? The mission is feasible: firstly, prioritize, and secondly, understand that you can not sacrifice personal time for work. In some companies, it is customary to linger after work, but not at Tetra Pak: here a good employee is the one who manages to solve all his affairs within the framework of working time.

About the level of communication

In Tetra Pak, it turns out to build friendships with colleagues because they try to select people in the company who are similar in spirit and human qualities. An employee at Tetra Pak is an upscale professional who is willing to share knowledge and does not hesitate to ask questions. This is someone who is actively involved in sports or is interested in 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 day one, I felt the atmosphere of Tetra Pak: this is a place where friendly, open people work. Team building helps a lot to create a comfortable environment. They can better 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 for Tetra Pak customers in Siberia and the 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” differs from Russia “here”. Few people would think of spending their holidays in Kemerovo, and I travel around the country and recognize her. 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 the support of the company. In my opinion, this is the best motivation. The realization that the company appreciates your work, is happy with ideas and is ready to support the initiative, encourages us to work with a vengeance. Tetra Pak encourages independent decision-making if it produces the desired outcome. But you also need to be aware of the responsibility for possible errors.

About emotions

Before Tetra Pak, I worked at a Russian company and in a Western company with a completely Russian mentality. I can say this: in Tetra Pak there simply does not exist what is usually burdensome at work. The right emotions are valued here: when people don’t allow themselves to raise their voices, break down on colleagues, use their 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 start of the journey to Tetra Pak

On September 1, 2005, preparations began for the construction of the Tetra Pak factory, and I joined the team as a project manager. Then I did not know much, 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 engage in additional projects in parallel with the main one. I went through it, and it helped me quickly understand how work at Tetra Pak works.

About the perfect employee

The ideal employee of Tetra Pak is a highly motivated person in work and in his personal life: he wants to be the first, but knows how to work in a team. He studies and develops, and we help him in this. For example, with each employee we develop a career plan. If in order to achieve the 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 staff turnover at production was 20%. This was due to the fact that the entry in the work book about work at Tetra Pak was already highly valued at that time. We are a company that not only provides people with work, but also constantly trains its employees. To date, the staff turnover rate in Tetra Pak is 4%. This is an excellent indicator of how people value their work, the attitude of management to employees and corporate values. Our main principles are customer focus and long-term perspective, quality and innovation, partnership and work in pleasure, freedom and responsibility. There are a huge number of enterprises in which there is too much bureaucracy, and the initiative is punishable. We at Tetra Pak welcome new ideas, do not restrict employees in the freedom of decision-making necessary to resolve the problem. We were one of the first in Russia to apply the World Class Manufacturing program. This is a methodology for continuous improvement: anyone or himself or as a team can 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, probably, is freedom and responsibility in corporate culture Tetra Pak.

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