Tetra Pak's Jason Bezzina came to Auspack to share the good news about a retortable carton package providing an alternative to cans and glass jars.
Jason Bezzina works as a business development manager at Tetra Pak in Melbourne, and has a lot to say about the benefits of Tetra Pak Recart.
A speaker at the the 2017 National Technical Forums on Day One at Auspack, Bezzina was able to demonstrate how the package was a rival for the can or glass jar in terms of both shelf life and its ability to save space on shelf.
Designed for shelf-stable food products, the retortable package, according to Bezzina, boasts a packaging material based on renewable resources.
It can handle high pressure, and pressure in the retort process as well.
Beverage, especially dairy, has long been Tetra Pak’s biggest industry, and food much further down.
But the retortable package – the first of its kind according to the company – will possibly change that.
“The Tetra Park Recart is similar to the Brik Aseptic, which is a purely aseptic type of packaging, but the Recart can handle either hot fill or retort, and both liquid and large particles," Bezzina says.
“It’s the 21st century alternative to canned food, offering about the same result of canned food in terms of shelf life – which is about two years.”
The package has proven itself in Europe, and Tetra Pak has plans to introduce it to the Australia and New Zealand market.
“Having witnessed the success and popularity of Tetra Recart in other markets we’ve decided to make it more readily available to Australian and New Zealand manufacturers as well,” said Craig Salkeld, Tetra Pak Oceania MD this week.
