Tetra Pak Invests €100 Million in India

Tetra Pak is investing €100m on a state-of-the-art packaging material factory in Chakan, India, in an effort to meet growing demand for carton packaged dairy beverages and fruit-based drinks in India, South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

The new plant will have an initial annual production capacity of 8.5 billion packages, with the potential of increasing to 16 billion packages. It will produce packaging material for such packages as Tetra Brik Aseptic, Tetra Fino Aseptic and Tetra Classic Aseptic.

The market for carton packaged dairy beverages and fruit-based drinks is expected to grow from 757 million litres in 2010 to 1.3 billion litres by 2013 in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.   The same trend is taking place in South and South East Asia, where this market is expected to rise from 3.6 to 5.4 billion litres during this period. In the Middle East, it is expected to increase from 8.3 to 10.6 billion litres.

Among its facilities the new packaging plant will have a Machine Rebuilding Center providing technical services such as start-up support and machine renovation to customers.  It will also have a Product Development and Innovation Center (PDIC), which will have a laboratory, a pilot processing plant, and a pilot packaging plant to meet the product formulations and development needs of customers.

The new plant will also feature the use of renewable and non-conventional energy and materials, heat recovery to generate air conditioning, and rainwater harvesting.