Can SOLUT! design custom-sized paper trays?
We realize that the process of designing anything custom can be daunting and a bit scary. That’s why SOLUT! focuses on your custom needs. Just visit our Testimonials to read a few examples of how we have helped our customers by successfully designing a wide range of custom-sized disposable paper trays and commercial bakeware.
With just four easy steps, SOLUT! can design your custom-sized baking pan or thermoformed paper food tray to fit your product and application.
Step 1 – We talk to you. To begin your custom-sized design, we need some basic information:
- Tray size: length, width, depth, volume
- Tray function: frozen, dry, or refrigerated, dual-ovenable (microwave and/or conventional oven)
- Tray process: Automatic or manual fill, distribution, lidding, other packaging needs
Step 2 – We develop your design. Our product development team will take your initial information and develop a detailed, three-dimensional paper tray drawing for your review. We consider all of your requirements in developing your initial custom-sized tray.
Step 3 – We develop a prototype. SOLUT! develops cost-effective plastic tray ‘mock-ups’ that enable you to confirm the tray size and geometry chosen in the design step. We can also produce actual paper food trays for pre-production runs and test marketing. In this step, SOLUT! can create a variety of paperboard material and functional coating combinations to help you to determine the best configuration for your custom paper tray or bakeware.
Step 4 – We produce your custom-sized tray. Since our production tooling is done in-house, your new paper tray is completed and in the marketplace in no time! Typically, our custom production tooling costs are half the price of other alternatives such as CPET plastic or aluminum foil tray tooling.
SOLUT! thermoformed custom-sized paper trays can also bring significant overall process cost savings. For example, one of our customers had chosen a stock CPET plastic dual-ovenable tray for a new retail refrigerated cookie dough. The stock tray size was too large for the actual product but it was assumed that the high cost of custom tooling for CPET plastic trays didn’t justify the small start-up product volume. As a result, significant additional costs accrued in outer packaging, cold storage, and freight.
By providing a cost-effective, custom-sized tray that fit the customer’s product, SOLUT! was able to offer significant cost-savings by reducing outer packaging and reducing cold storage and freight costs by enabling more products to fit in a master case and on a pallet.
At SOLUT! we want to work with you to bring you the best in custom-sized paper trays and commercial bakeware. Let‘s put our heads together to develop a cost-effective custom solution.
