New-generation canned food packaging from Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak inaugurated its improved and expanded packaging material factory in Budaörs. The HUF 14-billion development project started back in 2012. In the modernised production facility the company can manufacture pre-laminated hole (PLH) packaging for liquid products and Tetra Recart for canned food – we learned from Peter Jhaveri, managing director of Tetra Recart AB. Tetra Recart is the first carton packaging which makes heat treatment possible inside the carton, making it perfect to be used with canned food formerly available in cans or glass jars such as soups, sauces or vegetables. Food’s shelf life can grow to 24 months in Tetra Recart packaging. Most manufacturers don’t use the new packaging with ready meals but with vegetables and the like. Tetra Recart also has much smaller environmental impact than any other, non-carton packaging. Tetra Pack transports the empty boxes folded up, so a much bigger quantity can be transported by the same truck, e.g. empty cans take up 9 times more space. A further advantage of the Tetra Recart solution is that any kind of content, brand message can be printed on every side. Stores also like this format because 30-40 percent more products can be placed on store shelves than in cans. In Europe Tetra Recart is most frequently used for packaging vegetables and soups, but pet food is also marketed this way. In the USA soups are widely available in this type of packaging, while in South America vegetables and processed vegetables are sold in Tetra Recart.

Peter Jhaveri
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Tetra Recart