Timber and Plastic Trays Together It can be done!

With the ever increasing Industry Standards for Food Contact, CME are replacing Timber Starch Mogul Trays worldwide.

With Excellent sales in Europe and Asia , CME s sales policy of guaranteeing an exact design match to timber trays with their range of Polyester molded trays is well tested.

This approach allows customers to gradually replace their old Timber stock with Polyester by enabling Timber and Polyester to be used together in the same Mogul Stacks without the need of adjusting Mogul settings.

CME custom designed trays are standard with 4 way interlocking and underside ribbing to enhance print quality. Customer design choices such as internal starch powder ribbing to minimize powder slippage or Running Pads to facilitate tray slide through the Moguls are available.

Some of CME customers have reported increased Tray throughput is possible with the more stable tray stacks that result with dimensionally stable molded trays. Because the polyester molded trays are heavier and several times stronger than a conventional timber tray, the safety clutches on mogul plants, give a quicker overload. This results in less damage to the mogul and trays. This advantage combined with the same drying times needed with waterproofed glued timber, yield considerable savings to Starch Moulders.

CME are the manufacturer of the Polyester material as well as the moulder of trays. Michael Lewis, a Polymer Chemist at CME comments that Advances in formulation technology, specifically Glass Sizing, ensure that Glass fiber reinforcements are fully captured in the resin in the unlikely event of a tray failure. This feature is critical to the success of Polyester trays and the sensitivity the Confectionery industry has to Glass Fiber in contact with food.
This formulation advance has now moved to a point that allows our customers to purchase Super strength trays that are virtually unbreakable providing further whole of life savings. The balance of the Formulation also prevents the normal smell of Polyester.
Starch trays need to be individually designed to ensure they interlock with the existing timber tray but also that the stack heights and powder reference points are unchanged.
A molded tray has a typical base thickness of 2.0mm compared to Timber at 6.0mm. Even at this reduced thickness a Polyester tray is many times stronger than Timber. Molded trays will not splinter like timber a great advantage when considering food contamination. Even when they break, no fibers will be released in the starch.

With over 30 years experience replacing Timber trays with Molded polyester combined with an established European Technical support from Luuk Hilhorst of LHTconsultancy, CME is well postioned to satisfy increasing Food contact demands.

All customers are completely satisfied with the decision to change over to polyester molded trays, not only for the food HCCAP responsibility, but also for improved Mogul performance and ease of cleaning trays with heated power washers.