2020 WHO’S WHO IN CONFECTIONERY
MFG TRAY: starch tray superiors Molded Fiber Glass Tray, MFG Tray, has established itself as a leading manufacturer of high-strength, glass-reinforced composite containers, trays, boxes, flats and totes for the confectionery industry - Confectionery Sales Manager, Thomas Woods, spoke with Kennedy’s about the company’s history, recent developments and overall mogul efficiency
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FG Tray was founded in Linesville in 1952 as a division of Molded Fiber Glass Companies. The business was originally expressly to be a moulder of tray and boxes for the food service and industrial material handling markets, but over the years the company has added tray and boxes to their lines and expanded into different markets such as the confectionery market. Interestingly, one of earliest confectionery trays from MFG was a moulding tray for Ludens in the 1960’s and after this success,
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the company looked at what else they could supply and started working on starch trays. This work started to pay off in the 1970’s and the line built from there with several other products such as dough boxes evolving into standard designs expressly for specific applications, while others were used in an array of material handling operations, such as the 780 Series nest-and-stack designs. Today, MFG Tray continues to offer both specialized and multipurpose material handling products for food service, confectionery, pharmaceutical, electronics and industrial applications. The
strength, stability, versatility and durability of composite materials continue to reinforce the fact that the material really does matter in material handling. Kennedy’s spoke with MFG Tray’s Confectionery Sales Manager, Thomas Woods, regarding his experience working for MFG as an established member of the team; “I have been with MFG since 1976 and have experience with all of our markets, but have been primarily involved with the confectionery market since I started in sales. I had previously worked at MFG and in the 1970’s they had a major expansion and I returned
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