Tetra Pak net sales reach ?10.36 billion in 2011

Tetra Pak today announced net sales of €10.36 billion in 2011 - up five percent from 2010 in comparable terms.

The company’s Packaging Solutions businesses achieved net sales of €9.2 billion for the year, three percent higher (comparable terms) than in 2010, driven by strong growth in South and Southeast Asia, Central and South America, China and Sub-Sahara Africa.

Sales from Processing Solutions climbed almost 23 percent year over year (comparable terms) to €1.2 billion, with double-digit growth in North America, China, South and Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and Oceania and the entire European region.

“Thanks to our long-time focus on developing products and services that not only address today’s needs, but also anticipate the needs of the future, we saw continued growth in 2011, despite widespread economic uncertainty and an increasingly competitive environment,“ said Tetra Pak President and CEO Dennis Jönsson.

“We are committed to supporting our customers, retailers and suppliers over the long term and will continue to invest in products, services and facilities that look beyond tomorrow, while also making sure we deliver what is needed today,“ he said.

The year saw the launch of a number of new products and features by Tetra Pak, from within both Processing Solutions and Packaging Solutions, developed in response to specific demands around operational efficiency, environmental performance, convenience or differentiation. Within Processing Solutions, these included:

• Tetra Albrix sugar dissolving unit, with higher operational efficiency and a modular design which brings lower cost, improved environmental performance as well as easier expansion and upgrades.
• Tetra Tebel Blockformer, the next generation cheddar cheese production unit, which reduces costs and minimizes product loss.
• Tetra Alcip, intelligent cleaning-in-place system featuring a new automation platform and uncompromising levels of food safety at lower environmental and operating cost.
• Tetra PlantMaster traceability solution developed with Brazilian food cooperative Aurora to increase production efficiency and add brand value.

In Packaging Solutions, products launched during 2011 included:

• Tetra Evero™ Aseptic, world’s first aseptic carton bottle for milk
• Tetra Brik® Aseptic Edge, with a distinctive sloping top panel and LightCap 30 screwcap
• DreamCap™, an ergonomically designed closure specially for on-the-go consumption
• LightCap™, designed to keep plastic use and cost to a minimum, making it particularly suited for larger-sized closures
• HeliCap™, which combines ease of opening with distinctive security features to provide both consumer convenience and confidence.

In a significant milestone towards its goal of producing 100% renewable packaging, Tetra Pak, in collaboration with Nestlé Brazil, announced the launch of two popular milks brands in Tetra Brik® Aseptic packages, featuring caps made with green polyethylene.

Through 2011, Tetra Pak continued to invest in facilities that will better support its customer’s activities in different parts of the world. It inaugurated a new, state-of-the-art packaging material factory in Pakistan, started construction of a similar facility in India and opened its ninth Product Development Centre in Shanghai, China.

In 2011 Tetra Pak supplied 167 billion individual packages used by leading food and beverage companies around the world to deliver more than 76 billion litres of milk, juice, nectars and other products to consumers.

During that same 12 month period, the company also delivered 520 packaging machines, 2,250 processing units and 1,659 pieces of distribution equipment. Tetra Pak currently operates 42 production plants for packaging material and closures, 15 technical training centres, nine factories for machine assembly and 11 research and development facilities around the world to ensure continued product innovation and excellence in customer service.