Dry Forming Goes Industrial: Cellera® Enables Production-Ready Fiber Trays for the Food Industry

Yangi today introduces a dry-formed fiber food tray for meat, fish, deli, and ready-meal applications. The tray combines reliable performance, extended shelf life, and premium surface quality with expanded design freedom for brands. Produced using Cellera^®, Yangi’s turnkey dry forming platform, packaging producers and converters can implement industrial-scale dry forming immediately to deliver a cost-competitive, high-quality product.

Yangi launches the first production-ready dry-formed fiber tray for meat, fish, deli, and ready meals, enabled by Cellera^®, the company’s turnkey dry forming technology. As a fully integrated industrial platform, Cellera^® delivers cost-competitive high-volume output with repeatable precision, providing the operational stability that packaging producers and converters need to scale with confidence. With premium surface quality, predictable performance, and expanded design freedom, the tray sets a new standard for fiber packaging, enabling brands to finally move beyond the limitations of wet-molded fiber.

Performance & Design: Built for Real Food & Real Brands

The tray has been developed to meet the functional requirements of various food applications. Tested for consumer use in chilled, frozen, microwave, and oven settings, the tray maintains its shape, strength, and stability across typical consumer handling. With sealing capabilities and compatibility with Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP), it supports shelf-life ambitions across protein and ready-meal applications.

Made from renewable, responsibly sourced virgin fibers, the tray features a PFAS-free composition and a functional laminate applied selectively to high-demand applications. Recyclability is dependent on the selected laminate, with certain structures designed to be compatible with existing paper recycling systems, supporting fiber recovery after use. Integrated fiber chemistry also ensures the right outer properties of the tray. The tray is available in bleached and unbleached options, and the size can be adapted to the required format. It supports debossing, high-resolution digital printing across the full surface — including the sides — as well as a label-ready finish.

“The tray can be used as designed or customized to meet specific product, barrier, and design requirements,” says Hanna Rudel, Chief Commercial Officer at Yangi. “It gives brands and converters the flexibility to adopt fiber-based packaging that is intentional, premium, and high-performing without compromising on design, functionality, or cost.”

Yangi Cellera^®: The Standard in Dry Forming
The tray is produced using Cellera^®, Yangi’s dry forming platform, which combines precision dual-drum airlaid formation, in-line custom pad formation, and precision transfer technology to deliver maximum fiber control and optimized material use in every product, unlocking smooth, uniform surfaces previously unattainable with renewable fibers. By eliminating the wet stage of traditional pulp molding, Cellera^® also simplifies production, reduces process complexity, and enables industrial-scale dry forming with fast 4–6 second cycle times. The result is predictable, high-volume output with tighter tolerances, consistent quality, and lower energy and water use. Dry forming represents a fundamental shift in fiber packaging production, replacing wet pulp processes with a precise, scalable, and design-flexible approach.

“With renewable materials, a PFAS-free composition, ~ 80% lower CO₂ impact compared to plastic alternatives, and scalable industrial reliability, Yangi’s dry-formed tray represents more than just a product launch,” says Anna Altner, Founder at Yangi. “For packaging producers and brands seeking alternatives to wet-molded fiber, it signals the arrival of dry forming as the new benchmark in fiber-based packaging,” she concludes.