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Why choose our trays?
Automated warehouses handle goods in diverse packaging, often incompatible with conveyor systems. Repacking into standardized containers is costly and time-consuming. Instead, parcels are placed on trays designed for automated conveyors. These trays are customized to fit the products and conveyor systems, offering tailored solutions for each customer.
Key benefits of custom trays from Utz
- Durable and reusable: Designed to withstand the forces of conveyor systems, these trays handle regular stacking, washing, and transport, making them a cost-effective option for storage and distribution over time.
- Protects your products: Transport trays help reduce movement and damage during storage and transport, keeping goods secure.
- Supports sustainability: Manufactured from recycled materials and intended for repeated use, supporting your sustainability goals and reducing waste in your transport processes.
Trays designed for automation
- Easy system integration: Our automation trays are designed to work with conveyors, shuttle systems, robotic pickers, and camera-based systems for seamless transport and storage.
- Stable design: Stays in place during transfers, supporting safe and efficient operations in automated tray systems.
- Flexible compatibility: Plastic trays handle complex part removal and support various automation needs.
Tailored to your needs
Thermoforming and injection molding
We offer two advanced manufacturing solutions for trays to meet a wide range of project needs: thermoforming and injection molding.
Each method offers distinct advantages depending on your project’s specific needs, such as design complexity, production volume, and material requirements. However, it’s not always straightforward to determine which process is the best fit for your application.
Contact us to find the right manufacturing solution for your project
Injection Molding
Our injection-molded trays are precision-engineered for durability and intricate designs. This process allows for high customization with complex geometries and offers exceptional structural integrity. Injection molding is an optimal choice for projects requiring consistency across large production volumes.
Benefits to your operations
- Keeps items protected: Plastic transport trays help prevent damage during transit, storage, or assembly processes.
- Uses space efficiently: Stackable storage trays help you maximize storage and transport capacity.
- Improves automation results: Automation trays are designed for seamless compatibility, limiting downtime and improving throughput.
- Reduces waste: The reusable nature of our plastic trays helps you lower packaging waste and related costs.
Smarter solutions for efficient intralogistics
Streamline your operations with custom trays engineered for precision, durability, and automation. Improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and meet your sustainability targets — without compromising on.
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Examples of customization options
- Stackability: Designed for compact, stable storage when empty, making it easy to save space and organize efficiently.
- Openings for a lifting device: Designed to facilitate easy lifting with automated equipment, improving operational efficiency and reducing manual effort.
- Movable inner plate: Designed with a vertically movable inner plate for the automatic push-off of cardboard packaging, enhancing automation capabilities.
- Edge reinforcements: Designed with reinforced edges or corners for increased durability and resistance to impact, ensuring long-lasting performance.
- Reinforced base: Designed with reinforcement through internal ribbing for the handling of cardboard packaging, ensuring better durability and stability.
- Tray reinforced with steel tubes: Designed to withstand heavy-duty industrial use, making it ideal for demanding environments and long-term reliability.
- Drainage holes: Designed to include perforations or drainage holes for applications requiring liquid drainage, ensuring versatility in use.
- Surface textures: Designed with smooth, ribbed, or textured surfaces to enhance grip or reduce slippage, improving safety and ease of handling.
- Temperature resistance: Designed to customize trays for specific temperature ranges, such as extreme cold or heat, to accommodate specialized storage or transport conditions.
Labeling, branding and tracking
Personalize your trays with a range of labeling options to suit your needs.
Individual labeling
Hot stamping, pad printing, thermal printing, screen printing, font inserts, foil stamping, and laser marking.
Transponders/RFID chips
Rapid product identification and tracking throughout the supply chain.
Examples of custom plastic trays from Utz
Trays for handling containers
Provide secure movement, storage, and display for multiple small items, protecting them during transit.
Trays for cardboard boxes
Guide and secure cardboard boxes through automated systems, ensuring smooth and safe operation.
Trays with adjustable inner plates
Featuring vertically adjustable inner plates for the automatic ejection of cardboard packaging.
Trays with openings for lifting devices
Designed to make lifting easier and safer using automated lifting equipment or tools.
Trays reinforced with steel tubes
Built to withstand the rigorous demands of intensive industrial use and heavy loads.
Double trays for frozen foods
Ensure proper separation and protection of frozen items during freezing, storage, and transportation.
Material choices for all environments
- Virgin material: Delivers consistent, dependable performance for plastic trays and automation trays.
- Utz Industrial Compound: UIC® certified and secondary used raw material which supports eco-friendly transport trays
- Conductive and ESD-safe materials: Offer protection for sensitive electronics during storage and transport.
Our approach to developing your tray solution
Step 1: Understanding your parts and handling process
We discuss your processes and goals to understand exactly what type of storage trays or automation trays you need.
Step 2: Concept, prototyping & validation
Prototypes allow us to test solutions and make adjustments before production begins.
Step 3: Final production and integration
Whether you need injection-molded or thermoformed trays, we deliver expertly designed solutions tailored to your specific requirements.
The key industries we serve
Our plastic trays, automation trays, and transport trays are trusted in sectors including:
→ Intralogistics: Trays enable efficient movement, sorting, and storage of goods within automated and manual logistics systems.
→ Postal and couriers: Trays help transport and organize mail and packages, supporting efficient sorting and fast delivery operations.
→ Automotive manufacturing: Trays are used to securely hold and transport automotive components during assembly and delivery.
Explore how we’ve helped companies like yours reduce costs, improve efficiency, and deliver sustainability through custom collapsible box solutions.
Selected case studies
Optimizing store deliveries with automation at SPAR
SPAR Austria partnered with KNAPP to implement an advanced automated system for its distribution center in Ebergassing. The goal was to optimize store deliveries by improving efficiency, reducing manual handling, and ensuring better product protection.
Sustainability you can rely on
Sustainability is at the core of our process. All our products are designed for longevity, reuse, and operate within a closed-loop system, significantly reducing carbon footprints and lifecycle costs.
We provide recycling services for your old products, ensuring your used plastic carriers are responsibly collected and repurposed, fully supporting and complying with the PPWR.
Utz quality you can trust
At Utz, we focus on delivering products that work for you. Designed with precision and crafted to the highest standards, our solutions ensure superior performance and durability in every application. With strict quality control processes in place, you can trust our products to exceed your expectations. We’re committed to providing innovative, reliable solutions that meet your needs and adapt to the demands of your industry.
Smarter solutions for efficient intralogistics
Streamline your operations with custom trays engineered for precision, durability, and automation. Improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and meet your sustainability targets — without compromising on.
Request a consultationFrequently asked questions
Are plastic trays reusable?
Yes, all our plastic trays are reusable, especially those made from thicker materials. They are designed to withstand thousands of cycles of use.
Can I get custom plastic trays for my product?
Absolutely. Custom plastic trays can be designed to fit specific products, including options for ESD protection, reusable materials, and tailored dimensions.
Are lids available for plastic trays?
Yes, lids are available for most standard plastic trays. They can be flat or custom-designed to match the tray's dimensions.
Can plastic trays be made in different colors?
Our trays can be produced in various colors, such as red, blue, green, and yellow, to help visually separate different parts or products.
What is the difference between antistatic and conductive plastic trays?
Antistatic trays prevent static charge buildup, while conductive trays allow static charges to dissipate safely. Both are used to protect sensitive electronic components.
Do you offer tray samples?
We do not offer free samples, but we do provide prototypes that you can review. This allows you to see the design and quality of the tray to ensure it meets your needs and expectations.
Can plastic trays be used in extreme temperatures?
Yes, certain trays are designed to withstand both hot and cold climates, with temperatures ranging from -50°C to 60°C (-58°F to 140°F).
Can plastic trays be made from recycled materials?
Yes, we can manufacture packaging made from 100% recycled materials, which are as durable as those made from virgin materials.
Related information
Containers designed with safety in mind
Utz ensures the highest quality for our customers. We conduct a series of rigorous quality tests during the development process to guarantee that our plastic containers meet all intended purposes.
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PPWR legislation
Utz Group stays ahead of upcoming legislation and adapts to new sustainability requirements, particularly in the packaging sector. We’ll take a deep dive into the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
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Utz Industrial Compounds
UIC® are high-quality, quality-tested secondary raw materials with specified material properties. The physical properties of UIC® are comparable to those of virgin material. We declare the raw materials used in our products in a transparent and comprehensible manner.
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Return your end-of-life products for a second life
We are committed to sustainability and making it easy for you to recycle our products responsibly. Contact us, and we will help to organize the process.
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