An Easy Cost-Effective Catering Solution
Tower’s temperature-controlled insulated catering boxes help simplify airline and rail catering by removing the need for dry ice or setting up dedicated supply chain networks at each station. They maintain food safety standards for up to 24 hours, offering reliable physical and temperature protection for both chilled and hot food.
These insulated food boxes are compatible with standard ATLAS airline and rail carts, making them easy to integrate into your existing galley setup. This compatibility supports return catering and allows multiple leg flights or short-haul routes to be served from a single catering uplift—reducing waste, improving efficiency, and helping cut costs.
While not traditional food pan carriers, Tower’s Advanced Insulated Boxes (AIB) offer many of the same benefits: long-lasting temperature control, durability, and safety in transit. They serve as a high-performance alternative to insulated food pan carriers in environments where reliability and compliance are essential.
With access to Tower’s global network, airline, rail and catering operators can lease or purchase AIBs to keep catering contents chilled or frozen below +8°C for up to 24 hours.
Tower Cold Chain has worked with over 60 international partners since 2015. Our reusable Airline Insulated Boxes have been in consistent service, helping maintain cold chain stability, protect against food spoilage, and improve the onboard catering experience.
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24-hour product protection
Tower’s Advanced Insulated Boxes (AIB) catering boxes maintain the temperature of food at <+8°C for 24 hours. Built with stainless steel, 6000 series aircraft aluminum and Fumed silica/carbon vacuum insulation panels they stand up to the rigors of daily airline/rail catering operations and is washable in commercial catering tunnel washing machines. Our products have been in service for over 7 years with key global airlines.
Deliver consistent performance
Using high energy density phase-change materials (PCM) technology to offer complete flexibility of use, maintain consistent temperature.
This advanced technology remove the need of dry ice, eliminates any health and safety concerns, and ensures food quality.
It also provides flexibility to operate multiple leg flights/journeys or return catering opportunities with a single catering uplift as our technology enable foods to be stored for up to 24 hours within the legal safety temperature requirements at below 8°C, within the need of external power/chilled galleys or human intervention throughout flight/train journey or overnight.
This allows airlines/rail companies to reduce the need for dedicated supply chain networks at each station, reduces food wastage, gives customers more choice and allows catering to be uplifted from base. The AIB are food graded or FDA “known safe”.
100% reusable
Extremely durable to withstand the rigors of airline catering operations and fully washable in the catering tunnel washing machine. The Phase Change Material (PCM) cooling panels are simple to refreeze and insert into the Advanced Insulated Boxes (AIB) providing a fully configured unit in minutes. Tower’s AIB provide a reusable, cost-effective solution, long lease solution that contributes to customers’ circular supply-chain ambition. Units are 100% reusable.
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Delivering value through customer-focused innovation
Tower incorporates innovation through design to meet food safety Standards and the regulatory demands of the food supply chain. Our patented design technology meets the requirements of our customers to be compatible with an Atlas half and full cart and exceeds the temperature-control demands of the food industry by providing a 24-hours protection.
Our expert teams work closely with our customers, realising their requirements and how we can address emerging needs. Tower collaborates with stakeholders to identify challenges across a global supply chain and to deliver customer-focused innovation so don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss your requirements.
Tower for airlines and rail onboard catering
Tower Cold Chain is the essential link in the stability of your food cold chain. Our innovative containers and dedicated customer services maintain the cold chain, ensures we meet the airline/rail catering industry performance standard, providing temperature compliance and maintaining food safety requirements at a temperature below +8°C for 24 hours from the point of sealing the unit to prevent food spoilage and guarantee consumer safety.
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