• Bucharest, March 24, 2026: Tetra Pak won the Award Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award (MIMA) 2026, in the Scale! category, for its portfolio of next-generation automation and digitalization solutions, Tetra Pak® Factory OS™.
Award Stairs! recognizes intelligent industrial solutions that stand out for their scale of impact on value chains, customers and internal processes, at different levels of maturity.
The jury praised Tetra Pak® Factory OS™ for its ability to help food and beverage manufacturers scale up production, launch new products faster and optimize production costs in an increasingly challenging geopolitical and economic context. As food prices and raw material costs put pressure on manufacturers, Tetra Pak® Factory OS™ enables them to improve efficiency and strengthen operational resilience, while maintaining product quality.
Tetra Pak® Factory OS™ solutions can be deployed in facilities with varying levels of digital maturity, improve operational performance, accelerate digital transformation at scale and unlock new growth opportunities through coherence, consistency and intelligent automation across integrated factory operations. Designed with security in mind from the development stage and complemented by multi-layered protection systems, the platform provides a ready-made foundation for artificial intelligence, transforming real-time data into relevant insights for faster, smarter decision-making.
Sean Sims, Vice President Automation & Solutions at Tetra Pak, said:
“Food and beverage manufacturers are facing increasing pressure to deliver more with less, while remaining competitive in uncertain markets. This award recognizes the real-world impact of advanced industrial automation, which makes factory data usable and actionable at scale. With Tetra Pak® Factory OS™, manufacturers can transform complexity into clarity, continuously improve their performance and build a digital foundation ready for the next wave of AI-powered manufacturing.”
The Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award (MIMA) recognizes innovative industrial solutions that generate measurable impact through intelligent manufacturing technologies. Awarded by Microsoft and Roland Berger, the award was preceded by a competitive evaluation process. Tetra Pak was shortlisted and presented its solution to an independent jury before being named the winner in the Scale! category. The official award ceremony will take place at Hannover Messe on April 22, 2026.
Learn more about Tetra Pak® Factory OS™ are here.
About TETRA PAK
We want to make food safe and accessible. That's why we offer advanced food production systems. In collaboration with our customers and suppliers, supported globally by more than 24.000 dedicated employees, we protect food sustainably, day in and day out, for hundreds of millions of people in over 160 countries. Because we are dedicated to a clear mission: We are committed to making food safe and accessible everywhere in the world, and we promise to protect what is valuable: food, people and the planet.
More information about Tetra Pak is available at: www.tetrapak.com.
Article source: Press Release
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