Ruben Rausing

Unlike Ruben Rausing ( pronunciation: [ ˌ ʁʉ ː bən ʁɑu̯siŋ ], born June 17, 1895 in Out in Helsingborg; † 10 August 1983) was a Swedish economist and big business. He was responsible for the packaging idea, which has achieved worldwide renown as Tetra Pak.

In 1920 he graduated from the Columbia University with a Master of Science. In 1929 he founded together with Erik Åkerlund the first packaging company in Scandinavia, the company Åkerlund & Rausing.

The idea for the invention of a new package is to have him brought his wife when she produced sausage and it filled the sausage meat into the skin. 1943 succeeded the young chemist Erik Wallenberg, the engineer Harry Järund and the sales manager Erik Torudd after many attempts to Tetra Pak to develop a completely new packaging for milk.

In 1951 he founded in Lund together with Erik Wallenberg, the company Tetra Pak AB, a subsidiary of Åkerlund & Rausing. The first bottling plant in 1952 delivered to a dairy in Lund, so the bottled cream.

He is the father of Hans and Gad Rausing († 2000).