STERIS chosen as strategic global supplier to Tetra Pak
STERIS Corporation has been chosen by Tetra Pak, a world leader in food processing and packaging solutions, as a strategic global supplier for the provision of sterilisation systems on a Tetra Pak beverage-filling platform currently in the final stage of development.
The selection follows several years of joint development between the companies resulting in the creation of a unique aseptic beverage filling platform that uses a proprietary STERIS vapour sterilisation system, said to represent an advance over traditional packaging sterilisation methods.
“Tetra Pak's selection of STERIS as a strategic global supplier is validation of the potential for our technology in entirely new industries,” said Les C. Vinney, president and ceo of STERIS. “It is very rewarding to see many years of development and investment place us in a position to create a significant new revenue stream for the company in an industry similar in scale to those we currently serve.”
The new sterilisation system provides a technology that permits continuous optimisation of this core process and contributes to improved capacity and flexibility on Tetra Pak's next filling platform.
"This joint development between STERIS, world leader in vapour sterilisation technology, and Tetra Pak, world leader in aseptic technology, will enable us to provide our beverage customers with a unique, highly robust, cost-effective packaging solution," said Michael Grosse, executive vice president, development and engineering, Tetra Pak.
Tetra Pak is the world leader in aseptic carton packaging solutions for ambient liquid dairy, juices, nectars and still drink products, a market that is expected to grow at an annual average rate of 5% in the coming years.
Approximately 9,000 Tetra Pak packaging machines are in operation worldwide. Last year the company reported revenues of €8.5bn (US$11.4bn), sold approximately 700 packaging machines, and produced more than 129 billion packages from its installed base of equipment.
