TETRA PAK INC.
DENTON, TX

We bring your entire food production operation into the future and optimise your performance with the world’s most advanced automation and information solution for food production. Looking for a quality heating solution that makes smart business sense? Let us find your match. Tetra Pak provides the products and services that help you succeed. Find out how our innovations create value for your business All over the world - from the streets of Egypt to the forests of Brazil, Tetra Pak strives to protect the safety of food and the environment. Tetra Pak vision and mission ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​About Tetra Pak Every day, across the world billions of litres of water, milk, juice and other liquid foods are consumed. At Tetra Pak, we have developed a range of packages to protect both the nutritional value and the​ taste of the products inside. Thanks to Tetra Pak technology, the packaging and distribution of liquid products to the consumer has been greatly facilitated.​ This was the tenet of the founder of Tetra Pak, Dr. Ruben Rausing, who initiated the development of the tetrahedron shaped package. The fundamental idea was to form a tube from a roll of plastic-coated paper, fill it with the beverage and seal it below the level of the liquid. Today, Tetra Pak offers much more than just packaging equipment for liquid food products. We also provide a range of processing and packaging technologies for use with a broad array of products, from ice cream and cheese to fruit, vegetables and pet food. We supply complete systems for processing, packaging and distribution, designed to optimise the use of resources. Our processing systems are not only developed to treat the products gently, but also to minimise the use of raw materials and energy during manufacture and subsequent distribution. We are committed to reducing the environmental impact of our operations and to enhancing the environmental performance of our products and solutions, including the continued development of environmentally efficient packages that protect food and prevent it from being wasted.​ Tetra Pak strategic priorities Our core values define our culture and ‘the way we do things around here’. They inform our behaviour internally and externally; uniting people from different cultures, countries and backgrounds; enabling us to treat each other with mutual respect, and helping us work harmoniously together at Tetra Pak.​​​ We have the freedom to take initiative and act decisively in the best interests of Tetra Pak and our customers. We take responsibility for our actions and contribute to the communities in which we operate. We commit to making food safe and available, everywhere Our Mission We work for and with our customers to provide preferred processing and packaging solutions for food.  PROTECTS WHAT'S GOOD is our brand promise. It defines us and influences everything we do – not just the way we communicate, but also the way we carry out our individual roles. It is our pledge to consistently deliver a valuably different product and service. We have innovative and market leading food processing and packaging solutions – making food safe and available, everywhere We support and provide opportunity for all our employees, all over the world We're socially responsible in all that we do – supporting the communities where we operate Customers' businesses We're committed to driving environmental excellence ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Innovations at Tetra Pak Innovation means transforming knowledge into new products and services or into new processes and new working methods. Striving for renewal, or innovation, is one of th​e most important driving forces in the global economy. Innovation stimulates competition and affects our very existence. It creates jobs, increases growth and mobilises factors that can help a nation to improve the competitive strength of its economy.​​ ​At Tetra Pak​, innovation is the result of the total process of developing an idea into a product or a new way of working which adds value to the business. Innovation embraces everything from hatching an idea to reaching the marketplace with a new or improved product. Whichever way you define it, it is important. Innovation is one of the mainstays of our survival and growth. From Ideas to products Product Development Centres​ are there to help you turn your concepts into fully-fledged commercial products, tested, evaluated and modified to perfection. Use our centres to fine tune new processing concepts, perform trials and test runs, and evaluate final results – all with the help of our experienced technicians and under conditions of absolute secrecy.​​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Tetra Pak history The first Tetra Pak model to demonstrate Dr.Ruben Rausing’s idea. The Founder of Tetra Pak, Dr. Ruben Rausing tells the story of Tetra Pak on the 25th anniversary of Tetra Pak in 1977. AB Tetra Pak is established in Lund Sweden, by Ruben Rausing. It starts as a subsidiary of Åkerlund & Rausing. On May 18, the new packaging system is presented to the press and attracts great attention. In September, the first Tetra Pak machine for tetrahedron-shaped cartons is delivered to the Lund dairy, Lundaortens Mejeriförening. The packing of cream in 100 ml cartons begins in November.​ The cream carton becomes increasingly common in Sweden. Mjölkcentralen in Stockholm, Sweden, installs its first Tetra Pak® machines. Polyethylene is introduced as the plastic coating for the paperboard. The first machines for the packing of milk in 500ml tetrahedron cartons are installed at Mjölkcentralen in Stockholm and Eskilstuna, Sweden. The first Tetra Pak machine to be exported goes to Alster Milchwerk in Hamburg, Germany. Tetra Pak moves into new factory premises in Lund, Sweden, on the site it occupies to this day. Development work begins on the aseptic packaging system. The first production plant for packaging material outside Sweden is started up in Mexico. The production capacity exceeds 1 billion cartons annually.