Fresh steaks packed dry in a clear, pad-free Lucid Infinity tray in a dark retail meat case

Patented · Pad-less · Proven

Lucid Infinity™: Red Meat

The patented, pad-less system engineered for poultry, red meat and seafood.

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No consumer adoption required

Simply rinse and recycle.

Longer shelf life

Moisture-managed design that works with your product.

Retail-ready

Leak-resistant, fully customizable to your brand and shelf specs.

Regulatory confidence

Aligned with new and emerging global regulations.

The problem

50B+ glued soaker pads “diapers” dumped into landfills.

Messy presentation. Poor product experience. Regulatory risks.

A soaked absorbent pad under raw beef in a conventional tray, purge pooling around it

Glued soaker pads block trays

From the recycling stream — an endless generation of single-use plastics.

Packaged beef on a retail shelf with darkened, purge-stained pads visible through the film

Consumers don’t remove pads

From bacteria-laced trays, yet manufacturers continue to put the onus on them.

A hand peeling a wet soaker pad away from the bottom of a used meat tray

Soaker pads steal attention away

From your product to the purge — hiding freshness and killing sales.

A pile of discarded padded meat trays heading to landfill

Mixed materials and messages

Introduce regulatory risks, limit consumer adoption of recycling, and devalue the whole recycling system.

The solution

Lucid Infinity™: Red Meat

A patented, pad-less packaging system that separates product from purge.

A clear, pad-free PET tray entering the recycling stream

Pad-less tech

The product rests on a primary layer while liquid drains down to the second layer. No pads needed.

A clear tray being rinsed under a kitchen tap before recycling

Simply rinse and recycle

No unhygienic handling, no consumer adoption required.

Fresh protein displayed dry and bright in clear trays in a retail case

Custom designs

Offer inviting displays with limitless merchandising opportunities, keeping focus on the food.

Macro view of the mono-material clear PET tray showing its ribbed base

Intelligent design

Removes disposal guesswork, builds greater capacity for circularity, eliminates regulatory exposure.

Side view of the two-piece Lucid Infinity tray with fresh beef resting above and purge collected in the reservoir belowSliced beef steaks on the elevated Lucid Infinity rack, drops of purge falling into the tinted reservoir tray below

How it works

Product above.
Liquid below.

A patented two-piece tray that separates fresh beef from its purge — no absorbent pad.

Elevate
The cut rests above.
Drain
Purge moves through.
Collect
The reservoir holds it below.

The science

Shelf-life Performance.

Independent, accredited labs. Blind consumer studies. Real-world storage conditions.

Study 01·Hygiene and Waste ManagementLab technician swabbing a used meat tray for bacterial testing

2000x

cleaner — lower bacterial counts vs. pad trays in garbage disposal, smell-free with a simple rinse.

Eurofins Experchem·1,290 vs. 5,300 CFU/g·6-hour test

Frozen 2 days, thawed 6 hours

Purge locked below

No visible pooling

Study 02·Shelf lifeTwo packaged beef samples side by side in a laboratory refrigerator

4/4

Matched or outperformed the pad tray on bacterial counts in every storage condition tested.

Refrigerated 9 days·Room temp·Freeze-thaw ×2

Third-party accredited

Tested in triplicate

Real-world conditions

100%Recyclable · PET

Sustainability

One material. Nothing to sort.

Mono-material PET. No foam, no mixed materials. It recycles easily and can be built with PCR content. As foam bans expand across North America, PET keeps you ahead of the rules.

  • 100% PET — One material
  • PCR-ready — Built for tomorrow
  • No foam — Ahead of the bans
  • One stream — Nothing extra to separate

The process

A better tray. In as little as 12 weeks.

One partner. Five clear steps. A packaging system engineered, prototyped and proven around your operation.

A current retail pack laid out on a table for review with a notebook and calipers
01DefineWeek 0Current pack + requirements
Engineer working on a tray design in CAD on a workstation
02EngineerWeeks 1–2Designed around your operation
CNC machine cutting an aluminium thermoforming tool
03PrototypeWeeks 3–4Physical samples for testing
Clear trays being denested and filled on an automated packing line
04ProveWeeks 5–6Side-by-side product trial
Rows of finished clear PET trays coming off a thermoforming line
05ScaleWeeks 8–12Tooling + commercial production

Manufacturing footprint

Two facilities. One manufacturing system.

More than 400,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing and warehousing capacity built for high-volume programs across North America.

Aerial view of the Lucid manufacturing facility in Brampton, Ontario
01· Brampton
Aerial view of the Lucid warehouse and production facility in Vaughan, Ontario
02· Vaughan

400,000+ sq. ft.

Multiple extrusion linesMultiple CNC machinesAutomated thermoformingDirect customer supply

Vertically integrated

From PET resin to finished package. Under one roof.

  1. Clear PET resin pellets
    01ResinPET resin enters the system.
  2. Extruded PET sheet running through the extrusion line
    02SheetExtruded into production-ready sheet.
  3. CNC machine cutting a thermoforming tool
    03ToolingTooling engineered and machined in-house.
  4. Thermoforming line forming clear trays at speed
    04ThermoformingPackages formed at commercial speed.
  5. Finished clear PET trays stacked and ready to ship
    05Finished packageInspected, packed and ready to supply.

Engineering

Custom thermoforming engineered for high-speed automation.

Two Lucid engineers in hi-vis vests taking measurements on a customer's plant floor
On-site · Day 1

On your floor

Our engineers start at your facility, not ours. Fill weight, line speed, equipment — measured in person.

Automated denesting equipment feeding clear trays onto a packing line
Denest · Fill · Seal

Built around your automation

Designed around your denesting, closing and sealing equipment from day one.

A prototype clear tray being inspected by hand under workshop lighting
Sample · Rev A

Prototype first

Physical samples on your line before production tooling begins.

Tall warehouse racking stacked with palletised finished trays
Ship-ready

Built to scale

Tooling, extrusion and thermoforming managed under one roof.

Clear trays moving along a dark production line

Ready to see it?

Your product. Our tray. See the difference.

Request a sample. Pack it in Infinity and let the result speak for itself.

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