EPS Trays
Tired of product damage during shipping? Our EPS trays provide superior protection, cradling your items securely and absorbing impacts. Experience fewer returns and happier customers with our lightweight, customizable, and cost-effective trays, designed for ultimate product safety and your peace of mind.
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Superior Protection: Excellent shock absorption and cushioning safeguard fragile items from damage during transport.
Excellent Thermal Insulation: Outstanding thermal properties maintain desired temperatures for perishable or sensitive goods.
Lightweight & Cost-Effective: Incredibly lightweight, reducing shipping costs and offering an economical packaging solution.
Moisture Resistant & Hygienic: Inherently resistant to moisture, protecting contents from humidity and contributing to product hygiene.
Versatile & Recyclable: Highly moldable for diverse applications and a recyclable material, supporting environmental goals.
EPS food trays
Tired of damaged deliveries? Our EPS food trays provide unmatched protection, keeping your culinary creations fresh and intact. Say goodbye to spills and squashed meals; our lightweight, insulated, and hygienic trays ensure your food arrives perfectly every time. Boost customer satisfaction and reduce waste with our reliable packaging solution.
EPS meat trays
Tired of bruised or spoiled meat? Our EPS meat trays are engineered to provide superior protection, absorbing impacts and maintaining optimal temperatures to keep your products fresh from farm to plate. Ensure your meat arrives in pristine condition, enhancing shelf appeal and reducing waste with our reliable, hygienic, and cost-effective trays.
EPS seed trays
Experiencing inconsistent seedling growth? Our EPS seed trays provide the ideal environment for uniform germination and robust root development. Say goodbye to wasted seeds and uneven stands. Give your crops the best start with our trays, designed for optimal moisture retention and temperature stability, ensuring healthier, more productive plants and better yields.
EPS foam fruit trays
Tired of bruised fruit reaching your customers? Our EPS foam fruit trays cradle your produce, minimizing impact damage and ensuring pristine arrival. The excellent insulation keeps fruit fresh longer, reducing spoilage and waste. Deliver perfect produce every time, boost customer satisfaction, and cut losses with our protective and lightweight trays.
EPS apple trays
Apples bruised during shipping process? Our EPS apple trays virtually eliminate damage, ensuring your fruit arrives perfectly. Their superior cushioning protects against impacts, maintaining freshness and appeal. Enhance your brand reputation, reduce waste, and improve customer satisfaction with our reliable, lightweight, and hygienic trays. We make sure your apples always look their best.
medical EPS foam trays
Worried about the integrity of delicate medical instruments during transit? Our medical EPS foam trays provide precision-molded protection, absorbing shocks and impacts to ensure your valuable equipment arrives safely and sterile. Customizable and lightweight, they minimize damage risks, enhance compliance, and streamline your packaging process for peace of mind.
EPS egg trays
Egg breakage a constant worry? Our EPS egg trays virtually eliminate cracked eggs, ensuring your product arrives pristine. Their superior cushioning and insulation protect against impacts and temperature shifts. Secure your delicate eggs, reduce waste, and improve customer satisfaction with our reliable, lightweight, and hygienic trays.
EPS Dunnage Trays
Are you experiencing product damage during transit? Our EPS dunnage trays offer custom-fit, robust protection, absorbing shocks and impacts that typically ruin sensitive components. Safeguard your valuable items from costly breakage and ensure they arrive flawless every time with our lightweight, durable, and precisely engineered dunnage solutions.
EPS Trays with square cavity
Damaged goods from inadequate packaging? Our EPS trays with square cavities are engineered to precisely cradle your products, preventing movement and impact. The snug fit and superior cushioning minimize breakages and costly returns, ensuring items like electronics or small components arrive intact. Secure your shipments with our tailored, protective, and efficient solutions.
EPS Trays with round cavity
Frustrated with fragile items shifting in transit? Our EPS trays, featuring precisely engineered round cavities, securely cradle delicate products, preventing movement and impact damage. Eliminate breakages and costly returns. Ensure your spherical or cylindrical goods arrive pristine, enhancing customer satisfaction with our custom-fit, protective, and efficient packaging solutions.
FAQs about EPS Trays
What are EPS trays used for?
EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) trays are highly versatile and widely used due to their unique combination of properties, primarily serving as protective and insulating packaging solutions. Their lightweight nature, excellent shock absorption, and thermal insulation capabilities make them ideal for safeguarding a variety of goods during storage and transport.
While often associated with single-use packaging, they also see applications in more durable forms.
Common uses for EPS trays include:
Food Packaging:
- Meat, poultry, and seafood trays
- Fruit and vegetable trays
- Egg cartons
- Takeout food containers and insulated boxes for prepared meals
Industrial Packaging:
- Protective packaging for electronics, appliances, and delicate components
- Dunnage trays for holding and transporting parts between production stages
Horticulture:
Seedling trays for growing and transporting young plants
Medical Applications:
- Packaging for sensitive pharmaceuticals and medical samples requiring temperature control
- Trays for organizing instruments (less common due to sterilization needs)
are EPS trays safe?
The safety of EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) trays, particularly concerning food contact, is a topic with varying perspectives. Regulatory bodies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have for decades deemed polystyrene safe for use in contact with food.
This determination is based on evaluations that consider the material itself and the tiny amounts of substances, such as residual styrene, that may migrate from the packaging into food.
Studies generally indicate that such migration is minimal and well below established safety limits, with styrene also naturally present in various foods. Proponents highlight EPS’s inertness, meaning it doesn’t readily react with food, and its hygienic properties, which help prevent bacterial growth and maintain food freshness.
are EPS trays recycable?
Yes, EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) trays are indeed recyclable, though the ease and availability of recycling varies by location. While their lightweight, airy nature makes collection and transportation to recycling facilities sometimes economically challenging due to volume, technological advancements in densification (compressing the foam into compact blocks) and chemical recycling are making the process more efficient.
Recycled EPS can be re-manufactured into new EPS products, used as an aggregate in construction materials like lightweight concrete, or transformed into other plastic products such as picture frames, coat hangers, and even insulation boards. Globally, many countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, and various European nations, have established significant EPS recycling programs, demonstrating that it can be, and is, recycled at scale.
How to manufacture EPS trays?
Manufacturing EPS trays involves transforming tiny polystyrene beads into the familiar lightweight foam structure. This process relies on steam and specialized molds to expand and fuse the beads into the desired tray shape, creating a product with excellent cushioning and insulation properties.
Step 1: Pre-Expansion of Polystyrene Beads
The process begins with small, hard polystyrene beads containing a blowing agent, typically pentane. These beads are introduced into a pre-expander, where they are exposed to steam. The steam causes the pentane to vaporize, making the beads soften and expand significantly, sometimes up to 50 times their original volume, forming what are called “pre-puffs.”
Step 2: Aging (Curing) of Pre-Puffs
After pre-expansion, these expanded beads are transported to large mesh silos for an aging or curing period. This allows them to cool, dry, and stabilize internally, achieving equilibrium in temperature and pressure. This crucial step ensures the beads gain strength and are ready for the final molding stage, contributing to consistent quality.
Step 3: Molding into Tray Shapes
The aged pre-puffs are then fed into a specific tray mold. More steam is injected into the mold cavity, causing the pre-expanded beads to further expand and fuse together under pressure. This process fills the mold completely, forming a solid, yet lightweight, EPS tray that precisely matches the mold’s design.
Step 4: Cooling and Ejection
Once the beads have fused and the tray has taken its final shape, the mold is rapidly cooled, typically with water or air. This cooling process solidifies the EPS, ensuring the tray retains its dimensions and structural integrity. After cooling, the finished EPS tray is then ejected from the mold, ready for inspection and packaging
why choose our EPS trays?
Choosing our EPS trays means opting for superior product protection and efficiency. Our manufacturing process ensures consistent quality, delivering trays that are not only incredibly lightweight, reducing your shipping costs, but also exceptionally durable and thermally insulating.
We provide solutions that minimize damage, extend shelf life for perishables, and contribute to a more sustainable operation through their recyclability.
Optimal Product Protection: Superior cushioning and thermal insulation protect contents from impact and temperature fluctuations.
Cost-Effective Solution: Lightweight design significantly reduces shipping expenses and overall material costs.
Enhanced Freshness & Hygiene: Moisture resistance and hygienic properties maintain product quality and extend shelf life.
Versatile & Adaptable: Customizable to diverse product needs, fitting various industries and applications.
Commitment to Sustainability: Our trays are recyclable, supporting your environmental goals and a circular economy.
