Soup

Soup processing is a rapidly developing and innovative category worldwide, raising demand for value-added soup products with homemade taste and ready meals convenience. Our optimal solutions enable you to produce a wide range of smooth to particulate soups – from clear soups such as broths and bouillons to thick soups based on milk, cream or vegetable purées, and dehydrated soups. 

Read more about Tetra Pak soup manufacturing below.

Processing lines for soups

Best-practice continuous line

This line handles production of smooth to small particulate soups. It allows you to produce a wide range of soups – natural products without preservatives or additives, with minimized fat content and maximized taste. The recipe-specific shear rate in mixing and optimized heat-treatment achieves ​the desired product characteristics with high production efficiency. Our line enables safe production with exceptional quality and efficiency.​

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Best-practice continuous particulate line

This line handles particles up to Ø25 mm with excellent particle integrity. It allows you to produce a greater variety of products – from smooth soups to high viscous ready-to-eat soups with homemade fresh taste and colour. Gentle processing prevents the breakdown of particle shape and maintains even distribution. The recipe-specific shear rate in mixing, gentle blending of particles and optimized temperature program achieves the desired product characteristics. Our line enables safe production with exceptional versatility, quality and efficiency.​​

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Best-practice continuous smooth line

This line handles the production of smooth soups. It meets demands for a greater variety of safe, wholesome soups with delicious homemade taste. The direct heating technology achieves instant heating and cooling, which minimizes heat load and preserves fresh taste. Our line enables safe production with exceptional quality and efficiency.​

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Best-practice batch particulate line

This line handles particles up to Ø25 mm with excellent particle integrity. It allows you to produce a greater variety of high quality soups with fresh homemade taste and colour – from clear broths to creamy mushroom soups, and smooth to chunky meat and vegetable soups. Gentle processing prevents the breakdown of particle shape and maintains even distribution. The recipe-specific mixing and processing with optimized heat treatment achieves the desired product characteristics with maximized production flexibility and versatility.

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Best-practice dehydrated line

This line allows you to produce a greater variety of nutritious dehydrated soups with high quality and more advanced recipes. It handles a versatile product portfolio with flexible production solutions that ensure uncompromising food safety and production safety. And it ensures accurate dosing, as well as fast, gentle dry mixing of powders, to secure consistent high quality. Our line enables production with exceptional versatility and quality.​

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Processing equipment for soups

Tetra Pak High Shear Mixers

Tetra Pak® High Shear Mixers

Tetra Pak® High Shear Mixers

Our high shear mixers is a complete mixing solution solving any problem of lumping or fat separation to produce a homogeneous product.

Tetra Pak Indirect UHT unit PFF with tubular heat exchanger

Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT unit PFF

Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT unit PFF

A processing unit for highly efficient, continuous ultra-high temperature treatment of prepared food products.

Tetra Pak Food Processor V

Tetra Pak® Food Processor

Tetra Pak® Food Processor

Efficient processing of low to high viscous and smooth to particulate products.

Tetra Therm Aseptic VTIS

Tetra Therm® Aseptic VTIS direct UHT processing

Tetra Therm® Aseptic VTIS direct UHT processing

Tetra Therm Aseptic VTIS, a state-of-the-art direct UHT processing of premium quality, aseptic products from white milk to viscous ice cream.

​​​​​Tetra Pak Aseptic Tank

Tetra Pak® Aseptic Tank for intermediate storage

Tetra Pak® Aseptic Tank for intermediate storage

Tetra Pak® Aseptic Tank is a fully automated unit used for the buffering (intermediate storage) of liquid food products under aseptic conditions.

Tetra Pak Bag Tipping unit vs 800

Tipping & discharging for powder handling

Tipping & discharging for powder handling

Start powder handling right, with safe, high-efficiency tipping & discharge equipment. We handle a wide range of materials, formats, capacities and rates.

Tetra Pak Pneumatic Conveyor VDP FD

Tetra Pak® Pneumatic Conveyor VDP FD

Tetra Pak® Pneumatic Conveyor VDP FD

With its low velocity, this vacuum dense-phase pneumatic conveying machine guarantees minimal product breakdown.

Tetra Pak Big Bag Filling unit S DB006

Tetra Pak® Big Bag Filling unit S DB006

Tetra Pak® Big Bag Filling unit S DB006

The Tetra Pak® Big Bag Filling unit S DB006 enables easy filling. The solution meets high hygienic standards.

Tetra Pak HI tank for prepared food

Tetra Pak® HI tank

Tetra Pak® HI tank

The tank blends products, from smooth liquids to particulates up to 20mm. Its versatility makes it the ideal blending solution for various applications.

Tetra Pak Indirect UHT unit PFF with tubular heat exchanger

Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT unit PFF

Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT unit PFF

A processing unit for highly efficient, continuous ultra-high temperature treatment of prepared food products.

Tetra Pak Indirect UHT unit PFF with coiled heat exchanger

Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT unit PFF

Tetra Pak® Indirect UHT unit PFF

Continuous, gentle indirect UHT treatment unit with coiled heat exchanger for high viscous products, with or without particles.

Packaging lines

Tetra Pak R1

Tetra Pak® R1

Tetra Pak® R1

Versatile, high speed up to 24,000 p/h and automated form & seal machine. Produces Tetra Recart® Midi range carton packages for heat-treated food.

Tetra Pak R1 line

Tetra Pak® R1 line

Tetra Pak® R1 line

Innovative machine features, an operator-friendly setup and FSC-certified packaging material – the robust and cost-efficient Tetra Pak® R1 line.

Tetra Pak R2

Tetra Pak® R2

Tetra Pak® R2

Compact, configurable and integrated fillers, flexible machine, easy format change. Produces Tetra Recart® Mini & Midi carton packages for heat-treated food.

Tetra Pak R2 line

Tetra Pak® R2 line

Tetra Pak® R2 line

Get efficient production and easy operation with the Tetra Pak® R2 line - a flexible, compact, retort carton packaging line.

Product development

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Product Development Centres

Looking to test new recipes for industrial scale production? Or to evaluate different processing technologies? Our pilot plants have everything you need.

Food development centre kitchen, cooking session with customer

Food Development Centre

Fast track your food innovation and transform your ideas into commercial products at our Tera Recart® Food Development Centre.

Get the latest soup insights

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Consumer report: soup trends and the growth opportunities they create

Consumers are making lasting changes to their lifestyles, and this impacts their food and product choices. Our consumer research identifies these shifts in behaviour and what they mean for soup producers.

soup with numbers

How to make better soup – with mathematics

Tetra Pak developed new models and tools for building tubular heat exchangers that deliver target temperature for soups with precision not previously possible.

mushroom soup in a white bowl and bred on the side.

6 reasons to package soups in Tetra Recart

Give your soups the packaging they deserve. Tetra Recart carton packaging is not just a great alternative for soup producers, but also for retailers, consumers, and the environment.

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