Kraft Paper Food Tray
The kraft paper food tray is the one shape that every counter ends up buying.
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Custom Food Trays in Australia
Australia has a food-service culture that shapes packaging in specific ways: an unusually strong café and brunch trade, a long outdoor eating season, a substantial event and festival circuit, and a retail food-to-go market that has grown quickly.
The other factor, and it is a real one, is climate. Heat and humidity affect board and coatings more than customers expect, and packaging specified for a temperate market does not always behave the same way through an Australian summer.
- 6
- trays shortlisted for this market
- 1 day
- typical quote turnaround
- Freight
- quoted to your address, not ex-works
- Made to order
- no stock sizes to work around
Quotes delivered to Australia
Tell us the tray, the quantity and where it is going. Freight is quoted to your address rather than added later.
Heat and humidity are a specification input
Board is hygroscopic — it takes on moisture from the air — and in a humid environment that affects both storage and performance. Stock stored in an unconditioned space through a humid summer can lose stiffness before it is ever used, and coatings behave differently at higher temperatures.
The practical implications are modest but worth planning for: store stock in a conditioned space where you can, order in quantities you will use within a reasonable period rather than holding a year of stock through a summer, and tell us if the product will be handled or displayed outdoors so we can specify for it.
What Australian customers ask for most
- Café and brunch packaging for takeaway trade, which is unusually large here.
- Outdoor and event formats for a long festival and market season.
- Grazing and charcuterie boxes, a category that has grown quickly.
- Bakery and patisserie packaging, including for a strong artisan sector.
- Seafood trays and platters for both retail and food service.
- Retail food-to-go packs with the required labelling designed in.
Practical points for Australian orders
Units
Metric throughout. We quote in millimetres unless your existing specifications are in imperial.
Freight
Long-haul sea freight is the main route, and it is a real component of landed cost. Flat-packed board ships efficiently; domed and assembled products do not.
Lead time
Plan on longer total lead times than a domestic supply chain, driven by transit rather than production. Order seasonal ranges earlier than you would elsewhere.
Labelling
Australian requirements for pre-packed food differ from US, UK and Canadian ones. We print what you supply on a defined panel; the content is yours to confirm.
Ordering sensibly from a distance
The main adjustment for Australian customers is planning. Transit is the long pole, so the sensible pattern is to order less frequently in larger quantities — while staying within what you will actually use, given the humidity point above.
For a business with a predictable annual volume, one or two consolidated orders a year is usually both cheaper per unit and easier to manage than frequent small ones. We will quote at several quantities so you can see where that balance sits for your specification.
Trays we supply to Australia
Chosen against the requirements described above, not as a general catalogue listing.
Kraft Charcuterie Board
Grazing is a business where the packaging is most of what gets photographed and much of what justifies the price.
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Bakery Display Tray
A bakery display tray has to do two jobs that pull in opposite directions.
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Shrimp Cocktail Tray
The shrimp platter is one of the most instantly recognisable formats in food retail: a ring of prawns arranged tail-inward around a central pot of cockt…
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Kraft Snack Tray
A snack tray is a small divided tray that turns loose items into a product.
View tray & get pricing →Supplying Australia: common questions
How long does delivery to Australia take?
Transit is the long pole rather than production. We give a realistic estimate for your postcode with the quote. The practical implication is to order less frequently in larger quantities, and to plan seasonal ranges further ahead than you would domestically.
Does humidity affect the packaging?
Board takes on moisture from the air, so stock stored in an unconditioned space through a humid summer can lose stiffness before use. Store in a conditioned space where possible and order quantities you will use within a reasonable period.
Do you quote in metric?
Yes, millimetres by default for Australian customers. We can work in imperial if that is what your existing specifications use — just tell us which and be consistent within a brief.
Is freight a large part of the cost?
It is a real component on a long-haul route, and the format matters. Flat-packed board ships efficiently; domed products and assembled rigid packaging are bulky and cost considerably more to move.
Can you supply packaging for outdoor events?
Yes, and it is worth specifying for it. Outdoor trading means ambient moisture, sun and wind, all of which affect board. Tell us it is an outdoor application and we will specify a construction that copes.
What about Australian labelling requirements?
They differ from US, UK and Canadian requirements. We print what you supply on a clearly defined panel and mark that area on the dieline; the content and its compliance are for you or your advisor to confirm.
Can you deliver to more than one Australian city on one order?
Yes. Consolidating an order and splitting the delivery is usually cheaper than separate orders, because setup and tooling are shared across the whole run.
How should I plan a first order from Australia?
Allow more time than a domestic supplier would need, get the artwork brief moving early, and ask for pricing at two or three quantities so you can weigh the freight against holding stock. We will be explicit about both.
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Get a quote delivered to Australia
Send the specification, the quantity and the delivery address. We come back with unit price, tooling if any, freight and a real production date.