100 years ago, one Canadian, Joseph Coyle invent the egg tray to prevent eggs breaking during long distance transport. This perfect design was hand-made firstly until the first world war, made be egg tray machine. The trays now we find in various super market are invented by H G Bennett after 1950, molded by paper pulp or plastic injection, each egg is provided with a separate space. As the food industry prospers, there are numbers of innovation for milk sterilized package, fish and meet packages, etc, while in egg tray, it almost stayed the same since 1950.
Now, one student from Hungary, Eva Valicsek brought us a revolution for egg tray.
This design is future oriented, the egg tray, which had attracted many attentions of manufacturers, is made simply by a paper cardboard and one elastic.
“There are various problem for the egg trays we find in supermarket”, said by Eva, “the tray size fixed, it doesn’t prevent small sized eggs from scrolling inside its private space.”
“The tray protects the eggs, when we purchased the eggs, we don’t hope the trays block our vision. Just like buying vegetable and fruits, we want a visual contact directly !” That’s the first element that Valiscek thought. “At the beginning, I want a folding box to hold eggs with various size, after many experiments, one elastic happened to inspire me for the the final solution. ”
The egg tray that Valicsek designed can be folded easily for long term transport, no glue is used in the tray. The folding design is the key for egg fixing. Compared with traditional open top egg trays, people has doubts about
