Tapered tray Box Template Generator

Tapered tray. A glued tray whose base is a trapezium, so the two side walls splay and the tray nests inside the one below it. Common for bakery and produce.

Checked against the plate. This blank has been compared side by side with the drawing in the FEFCO Code, 12th Edition, and matches. That is a statement about the drawing, not a guarantee — always cut and fold a sample before committing to a die.

What is Tapered tray?

Tapered tray is a folding carton of a special construction. A glued tray whose base is a trapezium, so the two side walls splay and the tray nests inside the one below it. Common for bakery and produce.

Uses

High-volume packing lines, since a pre-glued blank erects in one movement

Advantages

Cut from a single blank, so there is one tool and one part to stock
Arrives glued and flat, and erects quickly by hand or by machine

Disadvantages

The glued joint sets the minimum order — short runs are rarely economical

Typical industries

General packing and light manufacturing

Recommended board grades

Folding boxboard or solid bleached board, typically 250–450 microns. Heavier board for larger cartons, lighter where the carton is filled by machine.

At a glance

Code	`D20.20.20`
Family	Folding carton (ECMA)
Also known as	D20.20.20.00, tapered tray, conical tray
Blank size at this size	266 × 257 mm
Panels	9
Creases	8

Scored against the ECMA 2022 plate on page 55 with scripts/plate-diff.py: 1.000, MATCH (cut found 0.925, no cut of ours the plate lacks, creases 1.00 both ways). The shortfall in cut coverage is the plate's own dimension arrows, which are drawn solid and so read as cut: the "b" arrow across the narrow wall and the "H" arrow across a side wall come to 8.8% of the plate's cut ink and no die can contain them.

Get the dieline

The generator draws this style to whatever dimensions you enter and exports it as a 1:1 PDF, an SVG, or a DXF with the cut, crease and perforation lines on separate layers. Nothing to sign up for.

Open D20.20.20 in the generator

Other codes in this group

Browse every code, or read what the groups mean.

Every FEFCO code we build — all 244 of them, grouped.
FEFCO codes explained — what the four digits mean and what each group covers.
How to measure a box — inside, outside and crease-to-crease.
Flutes and calipers — why board thickness changes the blank.