This Week in History

April 14, 1954, marks the world premiere for milk in Tetra Pak when the first machine producing 500 ml milk packages were sold to a Stockholm dairy. 

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  A happy housewife holding up a classic 1950s tetra pak with milk.

• A multi-national food packaging and processing company with head offices in the southern Swedish city of Lund, Tetra Pak offers packaging solutions, filling machines and processing solutions for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice-cream and other prepared food.

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  Founder of Tetra Pak, Ruben Rausing (1895-1983), was at the time of his death Sweden’s richest person.

• It was founded by Ruben Rausing (1895-1983) in 1951 as a subsidiary to Åkerlund & Rausing and built on an innovation by Erik Wallenberg, the tetrahedron package, from which the company name was derived. Then, on April 14, 1954, the first machine producing 500 ml milk packages were sold to a Stockholm dairy. Later that same year, the first machine was exported to Germany, followed by France and other countries.