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Eligible first orders may receive up to 3%
Eligibility applies to qualified business buyers and is confirmed after we review your product, quantity, destination, and sourcing requirements. Final savings depend on supplier confirmation, product type and order value.
Plastic Tubs Sourcing prepares a comparable request for plastic tubs wholesale so factory replies share the same construction, quantity unit and destination. This page is a matching desk, not a plant roster. We rewrite mixed units and unnamed substitutions before factories see the brief; we do not appoint a molder or hold inventory.
PP or HDPE, plus any post-consumer recycled content claim tied to a batch file
8 oz to 1 gal fill, 89–160 mm lid finish, and paperboard caliper for the export carton
In-mold label, flexographic printing or digital short-run, plus artwork freeze date
Order unit in pieces or cartons and the ship-to state or postal code
Ask each plant to repeat capacity, lid diameter, resin, lid type and decoration process on one line. If a plant substitutes 16 oz for 8 oz or changes an 89 mm snap lid to a 110 mm tear-band lid, treat that as a new construction, not a silent equivalent. A deli sample tub and a 5 L industrial tub cannot share that line even when both are PP.
Mold or lid-ring tooling, in-mold label plates or screens, artwork revisions, inner partitions, pallets and freight stay outside the piece or carton price unless the reply lists them. A lower piece figure that hides tooling is not a cheaper total. This desk does not publish a savings percentage because the price comparison file on this site is empty.
State whether you need a stock cavity, a decorated sample or a line-trial quantity. Request food-contact and migration testing files for the named resin, lid liner and ink pairing. Those documents belong to the supplier lot. They are not converted into a site-wide certification badge. Drawings follow after first contact; this form has no upload field.
Digital print versus flexographic printing or in-mold labels is a run-length trade-off, not a quality slogan. High SKU counts and frequent logo changes can reduce plate cost with digital print on a pressure-sensitive label; a frozen long run often keeps unit cost and spot-color control better in flexographic printing or IML. A die line for a wrap label should travel with the tub drawing so print buyers can quote colors on the same silhouette.
Small-capacity 8 oz / 250 ml programs change pack-out more than they change resin chemistry. Partition cell count, paperboard caliper of the inner carton and a 32 ECT or named burst-strength shipper belong on the RFQ because crush risk scales with more pieces per layer. Flexographic printing at four to six colors and an in-mold label film in the 80–140 μm range are different tooling lines. Write the rewind specification only if you also buy roll labels in the same brief; otherwise keep labels on a second line.
Limitations stay explicit: this desk does not promise US contract filling, does not hold inventory, and does not treat a supplier preference (high-end, mid-range, budget or undecided) as a verified rating. Read the RFQ checklist, then continue to inquiry options.
Include artwork, quantity and destination. Optional budget and preference merge into the existing requirement field when JavaScript is on.