Food Tray: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.05 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.015 at volume, on a typical 30-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 | $0.05 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.03 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.02 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.02 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.018 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.015 |
What moves the price
For food tray, the drivers are cavity count, material, sealing film compatibility, temperature rating — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published wholesale food-tray listings show paper food trays around $0.03885–$0.07634 each at 1,000-case scale, while custom-printed flat-pack food trays are quoted at about $0.20–$0.25 per unit from 1,000 units, indicating strong price sensitivity to material and print complexity. Larger imported disposable-tray marketplaces show very low ex-factory pricing around $0.01–$0.03 per piece at 5,000–100,000+ MOQ, but those figures are best treated as landed-equivalent or factory-direct benchmarks rather than guaranteed US delivered pricing. The biggest price drivers are cavity count/geometry, paperboard vs plastic vs molded fiber, sealing-film compatibility, and temperature rating; realistic supplier routes are US wholesalers for commodity paper trays, or overseas OEM/ODM factories for custom printed or compartmented trays with ~30–35 working day lead times.
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