The Three Numbers That Set a Bottle Price
Resin weight, decoration and quantity decide almost all of it. This page explains what moves each — without quoting a price, because the drawing decides that.
1 · Resin Weight
A bottle is priced by the gram. A 500 ml PET at 28 g and the same bottle at 22 g differ by roughly 20 % on material alone, before moulding time. Weight follows the wall, and the wall follows what the pack has to survive: a pump stroke, a drop test, or a shelf presence.
This is why we ask what the bottle holds and how it ships before suggesting a weight. Thinner is not always cheaper — a shoulder that flexes returns more bottles than it saves.
2 · Decoration
Print, label, spray, metallise or stamp. Each has a set-up cost that does not shrink with the order: screens, plates, jigs, masking. Four-colour silkscreen on a curved shoulder can cost more than the bottle; a label on the same bottle does not, but lifts in a wet bathroom.
Decoration is also where the MOQ lives: 1,000 for print and label, 3,000 for spray and metallising.
3 · Quantity
The first run sets which MOQ applies; the annual volume sets the cavity count. Below 20,000 pieces a year, one cavity is almost always right — a second cavity rarely pays back on a small order.
Freight belongs here too: bottles are light for their volume, so most orders are charged on measurement, and a heavier bottle costs more per container as well as per piece.
What We Do Not Put in This Page
Prices. They move with resin, freight and the drawing, and a number on a page is wrong within a quarter. What we will send is a written quotation with the assumptions stated — material grade, wall, decoration, packing and the quantity it applies to.
Send the Six Fields, Get a Price
Capacity, neck, material, decoration, quantity, destination.