Egg trays are used by poultry farmers for the storage of fresh eggs. For commercial purposes, they are used to transport the eggs from farms to the commercial market. Usually, the egg trays are made from plastic, foam, grass fibers, and wasted paper.

Egg cartons made of paperboard and wasted paper materials provide a vital packaging solution for the storage and transportation of eggs. Eggs require an extremely secure packaging solution due to the delicate and porous nature of egg shells. The egg carton market has wide applications due to the booming demand for poultry products.

An important factor that affects the growth of poultry products is the requirement for safety in storing and distributing eggs. With the use of new technology and tools, the quality and safety of eggs can be maintained through shock and stress-absorbing packaging systems. Egg cartons /Egg trays are broadly used across the globe for packaging eggs.

In addition, there are many places to use trays, such as fruit trays, wine trays, electronic products, shoe trays, nursery pots, and packaging boxes, all of which are used to transport goods.

Since a lot of waste paper is produced every day and the price is relatively low, it is a good investment to turn this waste into valuable goods–egg trays, or other trays.

So how to start your egg tray production business?

Step 1. Get the Market Analysis

Links for reference:

https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/global-egg-trays-market

https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/reports/egg-carton-market

Conclusion as flowing list :

• What is the global (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East, and Africa) sales value, production value, consumption value, import and export of Egg Tray?
• Who are the global key manufacturers of the Egg Tray Industry? What is their operating situation (capacity, production, sales, price, cost, gross, and revenue)?
• How is the competition in the future related to Egg Tray?
• Which is the most leading country in the world?
• What are the Egg Tray market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the global Egg Tray Industry?
• Which application/end-user or product type may seek incremental growth prospects? What is the market share of each type and application?
• What focused approach and constraints are holding the Egg Tray market?
• What are the different sales, marketing, and distribution channels in the global industry?
• What are the upstream raw materials and manufacturing equipment of Egg Tray along with the manufacturing process of Acetonitrile?
• What are the key market trends impacting the growth of the Egg Tray market?
• Economic impact on the Egg Tray industry and development trend of the Egg Tray industry.
• What are the market opportunities, market risk, and market overview of the Egg Tray market?
• What are the key drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges of the Egg Tray market, and how they are expected to impact the market?
• What is the Egg Tray market size at the regional and country level?
• How do you find your target audience?

Step 2. Local Factory Status Survey

You can get this data from the local network, or you can visit some egg tray manufacturers. Obtain data from these manufacturers as much as possible.

Main data from below lists:

• Egg tray machine output
• The source of the egg tray machine, whether it is produced locally or imported from abroad
• Their client group
• Their sales model
• Can their output meet market demand?
• Their egg tray quality
• Their investment and margin

Not only that, what you need is to position your customer group, in your surroundings and sales channels.

• How many farmers are there?
• How many eggs do they produce per day?
• How do they transport their eggs?
• Do they have any intention to change if they have not yet been packaged and shipped with an egg tray ?
• How do they get egg trays?
• How much is the egg tray they bought?
• Where do their suppliers come from?
• Is there a problem with the egg tray during use?
• How do they want suppliers to improve quality and service?

Understand the difficulties of surrounding customers as much as possible, get as much data as possible, and then help yourself analyze.

Summary: After analyzing industry data and local data, you could be clear about the investment possibilities if you invest in this business yourself.

Step 3. Required Surveys for Factory Production

• Source of raw materials, local waste paper market situation, how much per ton, what type of waste paper is more, and whether it is stable
• Labor costs and resources
• Are water and electricity resources sufficient?
• Is it good to apply for the land plant?
• What is the local heat source, coal, electricity, natural gas, wood, etc?

If after investigating all the information, you feel that you can start, then we will go to the next step

Step 4. Searching the Machine Supplier

The most important thing is to find the manufacturer or supplier of the machine because this determines the next step in all factory construction.

• Source, to decide to buy from the local market or import
• If import from China, how to search for suppliers
• Compare the advantage and disadvantage
• Website for sourcing: Alibaba, Made in China, Global Sources, etc.

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Step 5. Obtain information about the machine from the supplier

Model	Output pcs/h	Mold Quantity pcs	Power KW
3*1	1000	3	2.2
4*1	1500	4	2.2
3*4	2000	12	3
…	…	…	…

• The basic technical parameters of the equipment should be obtained first from the supplier
• According to the survey results, combined with the parameter information of the equipment, determine the model of the machine, that is, the output of the machine
• Then get detailed information about machine production
  • For example, model 1000 requires 4 workers, the water consumption is 150kg/hour, the power consumption is 36kw/hour, and the amount of waste paper is 80kg/hour. The drying method is generally natural drying.
• What you need to prepare: Pool construction or welding pool, machine work site, supply of water and electricity, storage of waste paper, storage of finished products

Step 6.Negotiations with Suppliers

From the early search stage, you should have a certain understanding of the production process, machines, etc.

Next how many points should be negotiated?

• Determine the machine model
• Determine the equipment and specific parameters that the supplier of the entire production line will provide you
• The production material of the machine
• The material of the molds, does it have to be a plastic mold or an aluminum mold?
• The spare parts of the machine, and how often will they be replaced
• The work of the machine, producing videos and photos
• Precautions for the machine
• The production situation of the supplier, you can ask them to open the video and photos to check
• Supplier’s production and processing capabilities
• The usage of the supplier’s customer group, such as the customer’s production photos
• Delivery time
• After-sales service mainly depends on whether the supplier can guide the installation, and whether any follow-up problems can be solved in time
• Price

This is the most concerned issue for all people. Why do I put it at the end? Because all the above matters are a factor that affects the price. Therefore, we cannot exclude suppliers based on the price. Please understand that all the comparisons are based on apples and apples, and oranges and oranges. In a large factory, relatively speaking, the price will not be very low, because its production costs are relatively high, such as factory buildings, labor, and machine tools.

We all like to contact suppliers with large teams, and many suppliers will also send customers their modern workshops, team services, etc., please understand the truth, wool comes from sheep, and customers need to pay for these services and guarantees.

For example: one supplier quotes US$1,000 and has a delivery time of 1 month, and another supplier quotes US$800 and has a delivery time of 45 days. So how to choose depends on you. If you want fast speed, you have to pay more to achieve your expectations.
In short, it is to find a supplier that best meets your needs, and whether you agree with the final amount. This is a negotiation process.

Step 7. Proceed With Import

From the above communication and understanding, you must have obtained a lot of information and found a satisfactory supplier. Next, it is time to start the project.

1. Signing Of The Contract

The contract must be signed strictly, and all the terms here will affect the risks and interests of both parties in the future.

2.Make The Payment

Generally, Chinese companies will provide a company account. Please make sure whether you can make money personally in your country, or if you have a company, then there is no problem.

If you have a friend who can help you make money in RMB.

In short, the supplier will help you solve it.

Confirm payment hit their account.

3. Import Qualification

If you are an individual or company but do not have import qualifications, you need to find an agent to help with clearance or apply for import qualifications yourself, depending on the situation.

If you are a company and you can clear customs yourself, it is easier to make it.

4.Land and Plant Issues

According to the layout of your production line, you need to prepare a workshop, whether you build it yourself or lease it. Generally speaking, the workshop is relatively simple for small production lines and can build a shed.

The factory needs water and electricity supply and discharge at the same time for living.

At this time, it is necessary to contact the waste paper supplier to ensure a stable supply of waste paper in the future.

5.Delivery

This is a very, very important part.

• Before delivery, you could ask the supplier to test the machine to check whether the machine works well
• Small models of machines can run directly, but large models may not be satisfied by suppliers, because large-scale mechanical work needs to provide many conditions before it can be produced, but it is also possible to make the forming machine run as much as possible.

Check the contract signed list to make sure each good and part is in it, the supplier needs to send you photos and videos of the shipment. Or hire a professional inspection agency to help with the inspection.

6.Shipping: The freight forwarder needs to be determined in advance

If there is no freight forwarder, then you need to find a freight forwarding company to help. Of course, this depends on the terms of the contract. Based on FOB trade terms, you need to find a freight company to book the ship for transportation. The supplier is responsible for loading the freight forwarder onto the ship. If the terms of CIF and CFR, you need your freight forwarder to help clear customs at your port.

7.Waiting for the goods to arrive

• You can check the tracking of the goods, master the time, and facilitate the preparation of your factory.
• It needs to be reminded here that the general transportation routes of some small countries need to be transshipped, and the shipping company will likely charge the destination port fee in advance. If you encounter such a situation, please don’t be surprised, because this is the shipping company.

Step 8.Construction of the Factory

1. You can do it yourself

If you fully understand how to do the civil work before the machine arrives, you can do the civil work in advance.

The supplier needs to provide you with civil engineering drawings that guide you, and you need to design the layout according to the actual situation of the plant, how to dig the pool, how to place the machine, waste paper warehouse, finished product warehouse, open space for drying, etc.

If you don’t understand it too much, you’d better wait until the machine arrives and then lay it out, but it will increase the time.

2.Hire a local engineer to help

3.None of the above

If you really can’t do it yourself, then you need the supplier to send technicians to help build and debug the machine. This needs to be discussed with them.

This post-service service can very well reflect the service capabilities of the supplier. No matter how guaranteed it was in the past, now is the time to implement it. A good and reliable supplier will support you.

Step 9. Start Production

1. Workers

• New recruits for each position will face personnel training, and it will take some time for them to familiarize themselves with their positions and work content
• How to operate the machine, and how to maintain it, these qualified suppliers will provide some videos or materials, the machine itself is also very simple
• If it is a large-scale production line, then relatively professional technicians are required to maintain the entire production line, and positions such as workshop leaders will also be provided.

2. Sales

It is necessary to grasp the market conditions in a real-time, develop customers, stabilize customers, and expand the market again

3. How to produce

• The supplier will tell some production tips, such as ingredients, how to use additives to waterproof, different colors, how to make better quality egg trays
• Requirements for raw materials

Step 10. Machine Maintenance

• Generally speaking, after using it in production for some time, workers will be familiar with and master the working performance and maintenance skills of the machine.
• Before starting work every day, it is necessary to check all parts of the machine to ensure the normal operation of the machine and no sudden failure
• Prepare the needed spare parts
• If you encounter serious problems, you can contact technicians or suppliers to help solve

Step 11. Expansion

If the previous process is very smooth, then congratulations, you are a successful egg tray producer and operator

It is necessary to decide whether to expand the business according to the market.

Conclusion

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