Plastic Resin: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $1.17 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.75 at volume, on a typical 21-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point, not a binding quote. Your spec and quantity set the final price.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $1.17 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $1.08 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.99 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.90 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.82 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.75 |
What moves the price
For plastic resin, the drivers are weave type, fiber weight, tow size, finish, width, resin compatibility, areal weight, binder type — the spec them differently and the same item lands at either end of the band.
Published wholesale resin pricing is typically quoted by the pound or kilogram for commodity grades such as PP, HDPE, PET, GPPS, HIPS, ABS, and PC/ABS, with railcar or truckload pricing around roughly $0.56-$1.03/lb for several commodity grades and about $1.30-$3.20/kg on marketplace listings for engineering grades. For automotive use, the biggest price movers are resin family and grade, fillers/additives, color, and qualification requirements; custom compounding, higher-performance engineering resins, and tighter specs can lift pricing well above commodity resin levels. Realistic supplier routes are resin distributors/compounders and marketplace factory sellers for smaller lots, while large-volume OEM purchasing is usually via master distributors, toll compounders, or direct polymer producers at railcar or truckload scale
Paying more than the median?
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