Ruben Rausing

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Ruben Rausing (1895 - 1983) was the co-founder of the liquid food packaging company Tetra Pak. He was born in Raus, near Helsingborg, Sweden.

[edit] Early life

He studied at the Stockholm School of Economics and Business Administration. In 1919, he set off for a course of advanced study at Columbia University

[edit] Tetra Pak

After being back in Sweden in 1929, he set up a company named Åkerlund & Rausing. The tetrahedron liquid packaging was patented on March 27, 1944; which later became Tetra Pak.

The company was inherited by his children Hans Rausing and Gad Rausing.