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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 for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
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 density, conductivity, thickness, cut format, color, fire rating, thermal conductivity, viscosity — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
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.
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