Tetra Pak is a Swiss packaging manufacturer specialising in carton-based systems for food and beverage. Headquartered in Pully, it operates globally with €12.35bn revenue (2025) and ~25,130 employees.
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The company is privately held by Tetra Laval.
Head office Pully, SwitzerlandStaff ~25,130 (2025)Revenue €12.35bn net sales (2025)Website ↗
Tetra Pak has cut total emissions 34% since 2019 and locked in SBTi targets through 2050. But its renewable electricity rests mainly on certificates rather than new supply, carton collection sits at 27%, and it lobbies against EU reuse rules. Real progress is real, but incomplete.
Tetra Pak scores 49/100 (Making progress) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Companies can never pay for anything about their own score. Last verified October 2026.
That places Tetra Pak joint 180th of 934 companies scored, and 1st of 3 in Packaging.
What is Tetra Pak doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (9/10, 8/10). Weakest on Energy Source and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (6/10, 6/10).
Where Tetra Pak lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
- Emissions from its own operations9/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain8/10Its Scope 3 emissions aren't fully verified or falling year on year.
- Whether its emissions are falling8/10Not shown to be on a 1.5°C path across all its emissions.
- How clean its energy is6/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature6/10No verified restoration beyond its own footprint, or supply chain not mapped for nature risk.
- How it uses materials and handles waste6/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
- Its effect on water6/10No water stewardship programme or verified fall in water use.
- Its climate targets8/10No validated long-term net zero target.
- How openly it reports8/10No mission-locked structure, such as B Corp certification.
- Its record on controversies7/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Tetra Pak's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Tetra Pak's score based on?
13 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
23% of them were published by Tetra Pak itself; the rest come from independent sources.
10 of 13 sources are independent of the company.
“Direct emissions from owned/controlled operations 80,066 64,003 58,181 54,417”
“nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the selected indicators (including GHG emissions)”
“Tetra Pak reduced market-based Scope 1 emissions by 32 percent from 2019 to 54,417 tonnes of CO2e in FY25.”
“Tetra Pak reduced greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by more than a third (34%) in 2025, compared with 2019 levels”
“sourcing raw materials – particularly paperboard, other packaging materials, polymers, and aluminium foil – has the most significant negative impacts on nature”
“expanding the Araucaria Conservation Project by more than 1,600 hectares in 2025”
“Our goal is to eliminate all waste sent to landfill or incinerated without energy recovery from our production sites by 2030.”
“Tetra Pak invested nearly €40 million (∼US$34 million) to accelerate beverage carton recycling worldwide”
“Tetra Pak commits to reduce absolute scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions 46% by 2030 from a”
“The alliance, whose members include beverage carton producers Tetra Pak, SIG Combibloc and Elopak”
“Mehrweg-Ausnahmen für leicht-verderbliche Lebensmittel”
“the company's Sustainability Advisory Panel identified circular initiatives as one of the key drivers of sustainable business growth”
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How does Tetra Pak compare with other packaging companies?
Tetra Pak is the highest-scoring packaging company we've rated.
Among the 3 major packaging brands we've scored, Tetra Pak sits 1st of 3.
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Tetra Pak leads its sector. These are the next 2 down.
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