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Tetra Pak

Protects What’s Good™

We’re here to make food safe and available. It’s why we provide advanced food production systems from product creation and recipe testing to processing, filling, packaging, logistics, services and beyond. In collaboration with our customers and suppliers, driven by more than 24,000 dedicated employees worldwide, we protect food sustainably for hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries.

It all starts with food

Food is the foundation for health, education, economic growth, opportunity and social prosperity. It is more than nourishment, serving as a source of connection and culture. Yet food doesn’t simply happen – it must be planted, produced, processed, packaged and protected before it reaches people around the world.

Our purpose

We commit to making food safe and available, everywhere, and we promise to protect what’s good: food, people and the planet.

Our strategy

Strategy 2030 guides our company to tackle the interconnected challenges of feeding a growing population while protecting our natural resources and combating climate change. Our strategy is to deliver food safety and the best quality, lead the sustainability transformation, integrate and optimise customer operations, and innovate for customer growth, while becoming a more dynamic, productive and capable Tetra Pak.

Our customers

We create value for our customers with complete solutions for a wide variety of food and beverage categories including cheese; dairy; ice cream; juices, nectars and still drinks; new food; plant-based products; powder; and other food and beverages. We are uniquely equipped to provide comprehensive solutions that meet the entire needs of our customers. We provide solutions for processing, packaging and distributing a wide range of food and beverage products. We are experts in minimising raw material use and energy consumption during manufacturing and distribution – to maximise operational and environmental performance.

Our solutions

Tetra Pak’s portfolio is broad, and includes:

  • Carton packages
  • Processing equipment
  • Packaging equipment
  • Distribution equipment
  • Automation and digital solutions
  • Services
  • Complete integrated solutions
  • Product innovation
Tetra Pak facts:
Net sales 2025 €12,350 million
Sales in >165 countries
Number of employees December 2025 24,617
Customer Innovation Centres 6
Technical Training Centres 8
R&D Centres 6
Production plants 521)

1) Number of packaging material converting factories: 27 Number of closures (caps) factories: 4 stand alone. Number of additional material strips and film factories: 3. Number of additional material straws (stand-alone) factories: 2 stand alone. Number of processing solutions and packaging equipment production facilities:13. Number of factories for new filling machines assembly 3

TETRA PAK GROUP NET SALES BY GEOGRAPHY AND CATEGORY, 2025

TETRA PAK GROUP NET SALES BY GEOGRAPHY, 2025

PACKAGING MATERIALS NET SALES BY CATEGORY, 2025

Market

The food and beverage industry is continuously evolving to meet the ever-changing preferences and needs of consumers. Understanding consumer behaviour is essential for remaining competitive in a highly challenging market. The current major trends include:

Liquid dairy products

Liquid dairy products

Global white milk consumption is projected to grow at an annual rate of 1.6% until 2028, with South Asia representing half the total demand. Flavoured milk is expected to increase by 1.5% annually during the same period. Sustainability, health benefits and naturalness shape the category.

Juices and nectars

Juices and nectars

The category shows signs of stabilisation after previous challenges, with an annual projected decrease of 1.9% through to 2028 but with growth opportunities across segments. Rising ingredient costs and the drive to reduce sugar content are fuelling innovation in functionality and inspiring cross-category hybrid solutions.

Culinary categories

Culinary categories

With growing health awareness and lifestyle shifts, consumers are seeking clean-label culinary products with functional benefits, along with convenient formats, and a balance of affordability and premium quality. The category is projected to grow at an annual rate of 1.9% through to 2028.

Plant-based products

Plant-based products

After strong growth in recent years, the consumption of plant-based beverages and non-dairy creams has stabilised. The category will continue to grow at an annual rate of 2.8% until 2028, driven by rice, nuts, grains and seed beverage consumption in Europe and non-dairy cream in the Americas.

Food supplement and nutrition

The consumer focus on health and wellness is creating strong demand for products that deliver functional benefits, with Lifestyle Nutrition and Medical Nutrition projected to annually grow by 5.3% and 6.4% respectively by 2028. Sports Nutrition products are set to grow significantly, led by Ready-to-Drink (RTD) products.

Ice cream

Annual ice cream consumption is projected to grow at a rate of 2.4% through to 2028. Innovations in flavours and textures are propelled by the themes of comfort and indulgence. Health trends, with low-sugar recipes and plant-based ingredients, are driving innovation in the market.

Ready-to-drink (RTD) tea and coffee

RTD coffee is growing, with a projected 1.3% annual growth through to 2028, driven by the trends of convenience, indulgence and functionality. RTD tea is already the third most consumed beverage globally and will grow at an annual rate of 3.2% until 2028.

Technology

Welcome to the future of food production

Tetra Pak® Factory OS™ combines modular, scalable smart technologies with deep industry and equipment expertise to drive consistent quality, higher productivity, and lower total cost of ownership.

Tetra Pak® Factory OS™ is our next-generation automation and digital platform – purpose-built for food and beverage production. It’s an open, modular and scalable ecosystem of hardware and software that connects equipment, data and people across the factory to help producers make smarter, faster decisions, every day. By enabling actionable insights and seamless integration, it helps producers lower total cost of ownership, boost productivity and maintain consistent product quality.

 

A unified, scalable platform for smarter food production and AI-ready factories

At its heart, there is a single scalable data integration platform that collects and contextualises data across the factory from any equipment, making it usable at higher levels – including applications, dashboards, analytics platforms or enterprise systems. A suite of smart business applications provides actionable insights to address challenges across all areas of the factory – from production and assets to quality, knowledge and material management. A modern, unified and intuitive interface ensures consistent user experience.

“Our next-generation portfolio transforms complexity into clarity,” said Sean Sims, Vice President, Automation and Solutions at Tetra Pak. “By combining contextualised data – the foundation of effective AI adoption – with high performing equipment automation, Tetra Pak® Factory OS™ gives food and beverage producers the confidence to act decisively in an increasingly volatile market.”

Highly automated beverage factories can boost equipment effectiveness by 20%, lower product waste by 45% and ensure 20% fewer packaging line stops compared to less automated facilities.1 Tetra Pak® Factory OS™ is purpose-built for the food and beverage industry, shaped by deep production insights and supported by a strong network of technology partners.


“This is the future of manufacturing, and we fully support customers who wish to get on board, from the smallest producer to the largest multinational enterprise.”