Aluminum Foil: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.35 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.05 at volume, on a typical 21-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $0.35 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.22 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.16 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.12 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.08 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.05 |
What moves the price
For aluminum foil, the drivers are material, perforation pattern, diameter or shape, sheet count, heat resistance, coating, foil thickness, laminate structure, peelability, heat-seal layer, barrier properties, lacquer/coating, print, grease resistance, dead-fold behavior, barrier level, print surface, food-contact compliance, sheet or roll format — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Quoted supplier pricing for aluminum foil spans from about $0.20–$0.48 per piece at 10,000-piece and 20,000-piece MOQs, with other wholesale listings showing $0.26 per piece at 500 pieces and $0.22 per piece at 10,000 pieces; tonnage quotes for raw foil commonly land around $2,000–$4,500 per ton, which supports much lower unit costs at scale. The biggest price drivers are alloy/grade (e.g., 8011 vs. 1235), thickness, whether it is plain jumbo roll versus finished roll/cut-sheet packaging, and any coating or special converting step; custom-printed or finished consumer rolls generally buy through trade suppliers or contract converters rather than raw-foil mills. For US-facing procurement, realistic routes are import/landed-equivalent buying from China-based manufacturers via B2B marketplaces or domestic wholesalers/resellers of branded foil rolls, with lead times commonly around 2–4 weeks for factory-direct orders and shorter for stock domestic inventory.
Paying more than the median?
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