Description

Insulated tray covers are engineered solutions designed to maintain the temperature of contents within trays, whether hot or cold, during storage, transport, or service. These covers act as thermal barriers, minimizing heat transfer between the tray and its environment. Widely used in food service, healthcare, logistics, and industrial sectors, insulated tray covers ensure that perishable goods, meals, or sensitive materials retain their desired temperature for extended periods.

Constructed with multi-layered insulation technology, these covers typically combine materials like polyurethane foam, reflective foil, vacuum-insulated panels (VIPs), or phase change materials (PCMs). The outer layer is often made of durable, weather-resistant fabrics (e.g., silicone-coated polyester) or food-grade silicone, while the inner layers focus on thermal efficiency. Customizable in size and shape, they fit snugly over standard or bespoke trays, providing airtight seals for optimal performance.

Key Features

1. Dual temperature control

Maintain hot and cold temperature, usually with an effective range of -40°C to +150°C (-40°F to 302°F).

The enhanced pcm design can stabilize temperatures for hours without an external power source.

2. Light and portable

The thin and efficient insulation ensures minimal weight gain and is ideal for mobile applications such as food delivery or field work.

Flexible material allows folding or rolling for compact storage.

3. Durable and hygienic

It is resistant to moisture, oil and wear, ensuring service life even in harsh environments.

Easy-to-clean surfaces (e.g., wipeable silicone) meet food and medical hygiene standards.

4. Energy efficiency

Reduce energy consumption in heating or refrigerated storage systems by reducing heat leakage.

The reusable design reduces operating costs and environmental impact compared to disposable alternatives.

Applications

1. Food Service and hospitality

Catering and Restaurant: Keep buffet trays, fondue, or vacuum meals at serving temperature.

Food delivery: Ensure food stays hot or cold during shipping, improving customer satisfaction on platforms like Uber Eats or DoorDash.

2. Healthcare and pharmaceuticals

Preserve the temperature of laboratory specimens, vaccines or blood products during transport.

It can be used in hospitals to maintain sterile instrument plates or patient plates.

3. Industry and Manufacturing

Protect temperature-sensitive components (e.g. adhesives, electronic components) during assembly or quality control.

They are insulated curing trays in composite manufacturing or chemical processing.

4. Retail and e-commerce

It’s kind of Ideal grocery delivery service to keep frozen goods or fresh produce.

We set meal subscriptions to ensure freshness of ingredients.

Why choose QIYAO?

QIYAO has grown into a diversified manufacturing and distribution company with sales and distribution centers throughout China. The company mainly sells building roof waterproof materials and aluminum foil reflective materials, applied heat insulation and moisture-proof materials, steel structure roof joint insulation materials and composite panels, cold chain logistics systems or bags of plastic raw materials and insulation cover accessories and other four market segments, more than 3,000 products are sold to more than 5,000 customers around the world.

We pride ourselves on high quality products, short lead times and the highest level of customer service. We have a dedicated technical department to support product development and quality control.

Located in Hangzhou, China, the factory has high-speed automatic laminating machine, foaming machine and heat sealing machine production lines to ensure high production capacity and strict quality control.

If you choose QIYAO, you are not only choosing the technical performance of our products, but also choosing an interlocutor who will work with you to find the right solution for your project.