Tetra Pak yesterday opened its new Tetra Pak Technology Centre in Pudong, Shanghai. The Centre, which brings together resources from product development and engineering, technical service, training, sourcing and distribution, provides Chinese customers with a one-stop service in food processing and packaging solutions.”The Technology Centre in Pudong creates a world-class resource for customers, ideally placed to address the unique challenges of food and beverage packaging, processing and distribution... ...Read more »

The Chief Executive of packaging group Tetra Pak said overnight that he believes the recession has permanently changed consumer behaviour and that value for money will remain critical for shoppers. Tetra Pak, which generates two-thirds of its business from packaging sales to dairy processors, said the downturn had led consumers to change how they shopped in the last 12 months. In its twice-yearly “dairy index”, Tetra Pak said that dairy consumption continued to grow in certain developing... ...Read more »

Swedish-founded food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak forecasts the global consumption of milk and other liquid dairy products to increase by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.2% over the next three years. The report, released yesterday is contained in the Tetra Pak Dairy Index, a new biannual report on consumption trends in the dairy industry that is designed to help dairy producers identify opportunities for growth. According to the Tetra Pak Dairy Index, in 2008, global consumption... ...Read more »

Following the global agreement with Tetra Pak announced recently, Unistraw granted Danisco the worldwide exclusivity for the sales and marketing of its internationally-patented straw concept for use with HOWARU premium probiotics. This award-winning concept from Unistraw will allow consumers to sip a probiotic daily dose with any of their favourite beverage. Unistraw, an Australian company, first came to prominence with the release of the ‘Sipahh’ – a straw that adds flavour to milk.... ...Read more »

Australian company Unistraw is continuing to expand their offering of straws to focus on the booming functional sector of the beverage market. Unistraw International Ltd. first came to prominence with the release of the ‘Sipahh’ – a straw which adds flavour to milk. Inventor Peter Baron came up with the idea just over a decade ago, as he sought to find a way to flavour milk at a low cost and with less sugar. Commercialisation on a global scale begun in 2004 after years of development... ...Read more »

Leading food processing and packaging solutions company Tetra Pak has announced the acquisition of two specialised food processing companies, Downer MBL Pty Ltd and Downer MBL, from Australian-based Downer EDI. The purchase, for an undisclosed sum, was made to strengthen Tetra Pak’s portfolio of complete production solutions for cheese and dairy powder by adding new process engineering, materials handling and project management expertise for evaporation, drying, powder handling and whey processing. “The... ...Read more »