Tetra Pak

Carton packaging invented in the Swedish company Åkerlund & Rausing in 1943, which is used today for all kinds of beverages. It was developed by chemist Erik Wallenberg (1915-1999), engineer Harry Järund and sales manager Erik Torudd after many experiments, based on an idea by entrepreneur Ruben Rausing (1895-1983). Rausing and Wallenberg then founded the company "Tetra Pak AB" in 1951 (by the way, it was not until about 50 years after the revolutionary invention that the Tetra Pak company was forced to confirm that Wallenberg was the true inventor and Rausing only the idea provider). The coating of cardboard (paper) with plastics was completely new. The name comes from the original tetrahedron shape (three-sided pyramid), which the package used to take on due to the manufacturing process. This is because an already filled cardboard tube is pinched off and cut off each time it is twisted by 90°. Tetra Pak was first used for milk in 1951.

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