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Paper fibers from beverage cartons are highly desirable because they consist of strong virgin fibers. Our cartons contain fibers of very high quality that can be recycled up to seven times. After collection and sorting, beverage cartons go to dedicated paper recycling mills.

(Oslo, 17 June 2021) Elopak, a leading global supplier of liquid carton packaging, has today been admitted to trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker code: ELO).

In the 1960s, Mario Lepore, a Detroit engineer designed a machine to fold and seal a gable top paper carton. In 1957, a paper milk carton company, Kieckhefer Container Co.

In 1915, John Van Wormer of Toledo, Ohio, was granted a United States patent for a “paper bottle” (actually a folded blank box) for milk that he called Pure-Pak (Fig. 2). The crucial and unique feature was that this box would be delivered flat to be folded, glued, filled, and sealed at the dairy.

In the world of beverage cartons, two of the major players hail from Scandinavia: the first, Tetra Pak, is Swedish; the second is the Norwegian company Elopak. In the world of beverage cartons, two of the major players hail from Scandinavia: the first, Tetra Pak, is Swedish; the second is the Norwegian company Elopak.

Our head office is in Oslo and the Elopak Technology Centre (ETC) is based in Spikkestad, Norway. Here we amass the knowledge and expertise needed to develop the right Pure-Pak® carton solutions for our customers.

Warehousing, storage, transportation and store shelf spaces are expensive. Thus purely from a cost perspective, cartons are more effecient. Soda is generally consumed right from the can or bottle. Milk is generally consumed at home and generally poured into a glass, than consumed directly off the carton.

Do you know, or have you ever wanted to know, why milk containers are square and soft drink containers are round? The answer is simple: Milk needs to be refrigerated. Rectangular containers occupy less shelf space, and less shelf space is more valuable when that shelf space has to be cooled.

Van Wormer received a patent for his folded paper milk carton, which he called “Pure-Pak,” on November 16, 1915. He spent the next decade developing machinery that could manufacture the carton, dramatically speeding up the process.

Elopak´s new robotic system autonomously de-palletizes, opens the outer packaging and loads the blanks into the filling machine. Reducing physical effort and blank loading time for the operator, the new system improves working conditions, enhances quality and contributes to more efficient and economic operation.

Our head office is in Oslo and the Elopak Technology Centre (ETC) is based in Spikkestad, Norway. Here we amass the knowledge and expertise needed to develop the right carton solutions for our customers.

It combines the latest aseptic technology with Elopak´s highly attractive and convenient gable top packaging concepts. Elopak´s new robotic system autonomously de-palletizes, opens the outer packaging and loads the blanks into the filling machine.

Our specially designed filler valve enables a larger variety of product applications as well as the filling of highly viscous and more sensitive products like passata, sauces, smoothies and gazpacho. See the machine in production and learn more about the Pure-Pak ® Aseptic Technology.