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6 November 2008
Tetra Pak supplies to Russian school food plant
*Packaging and food processing company, Tetra Pak, is supplying its latest equipment to the €44m school food plant inaugurated on 1 November in Medyn, near Moscow, Russia. *
The equipment installed on-site has the capacity to process up to 110 tons of raw milk daily in order to produce milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, whey drinks and other products.
The new plant is the first in Russia to install Tetra PlantMaster 6.0, which will reduce production costs, energy consumption and unplanned stoppages, yet will improve production efficiency.
It's also the first in Russia to use the micro filtration process on the Tetra Pak module. Tetra Pak has also supplied three Tetra Pak A3/Flex filling lines to produce dairy products in one-litre Tetra Brik Aseptic 1,000ml Slim and Tetra Brik Aseptic 200ml Slim portion packages.
The plant will start deliveries of milk to several elementary schools in January 2009 as part of the School Milk programme.
“Tetra Pak has provided its latest technological solutions to ensure that school students get the best quality milk in safe aseptic carton packages that protect the product’s nutrition value,” said Igor Akimov, President of Tetra Pak Russia.
High environmental standards distinguish the new production facility. The plant management plans to join a Tetra Pak initiative in developing a system of post-consumer carton package waste collection and recycling in Russia.