Export, bulk orders
Bulk injection molding exporter, from Delhi to your dock
A one-off prototype quote and a bulk export order are answered by two different parts of this business: tooling built for a single article versus tooling built to run cavity after cavity, month after month, without the per-piece cost climbing back up. This page is the second one: what a bulk order actually needs from a supplier, and what we do and do not publish a number for.
What changes when an order is genuinely bulk
Below the roughly 500-piece economic floor, the honest answer is usually CNC machining or 3D printing, not injection molding; the tool never earns out. Above it, the question stops being "can you mold this part" and becomes "how many cavities, and how many shifts." A single-cavity tool built for a 2,000-piece prototype run and a 16-cavity family tool built for a 200,000-piece annual contract can use the same press and the same resin and still be entirely different projects, with different tool steel, different cooling design and a different amortization schedule per piece. We ask for your target annual volume on the first RFQ specifically so the tool gets designed for the order it will actually run, not resized after the fact.
We will not quote a number we cannot back with a press schedule. If a stated volume genuinely does not fit current capacity in the window you need, we say so on the quote rather than accept the order and let the delivery date slip.
Tooling for volume: cavities, not just tonnage
Tonnage decides what part size and pressure a press can hold; cavity count decides how many parts come out per cycle, which is the number that actually moves per-piece cost on a bulk order. The tool room here builds 1 to 32 cavities as standard, higher on request, in two-plate, three-plate, hot-runner, multi-cavity, family and stack configurations, inside a 600 × 900 mm platen envelope. Typical tooling lead time is 4 to 8 weeks, driven by cavity count and part complexity more than by tonnage. The full tool-building detail, steels and expected tool life included, is on molds and tooling; resin behaviour at volume is covered on materials.
Incoterms, customs and the paperwork that travels with the shipment
Three Incoterms cover how a bulk export order actually moves: FCA Delhi is the default, handing the shipment to your carrier at our dock; CIP to a named US port or DDP delivered both move more of the customs and duty work onto us, on request. Under FCA and CIP the buyer clears the shipment; under DDP we clear it and pay the duty. None of that is a detail to leave implicit on a large order, so it goes on the quotation in writing, not assumed from the Incoterm's usual meaning alone. The broader mechanics of working with an overseas supplier, payment terms and IP handling included, are on how it works.
Sea or air, and what actually decides it
Sea freight to the US typically runs 30 to 45 days to the West Coast and 40 to 55 days to the East Coast; air is 5 to 8 days at a materially higher freight cost per kilogram. For a genuinely bulk order the math almost always favours sea, since the per-piece freight cost of air rarely survives being spread over a large piece count; air stays the right call for a first sample shipment, a rush replenishment, or a part light enough that the freight difference barely matters. We flag which mode the quoted lead time assumes rather than let a buyer discover it at the invoice stage.
What ships with a bulk order, on paper
Documentation travels with the parts, not behind them by email. A first article inspection report is produced against the approved drawing before any production quantity runs; batch-level dimensional reports and material certificates, where the order calls for them, are matched to the packing list and the purchase order lines so receiving inspection does not wait on a follow-up request. On a multi-shipment contract, each batch carries its own report rather than one report standing in for the whole run.
The certification this covers, and what it does not
Quality management is certified to ISO 9001:2015, which is what a bulk purchase order is qualified against here. IATF 16949, ISO 13485 and cleanroom operation are not in scope; if a program specifically requires one of those for a regulated bulk buy, that is worth surfacing on the RFQ before tooling starts, not after. What the current certification actually covers is on the quality page; cost drivers specific to a large order, tooling amortisation included, are broken out on what drives injection molding part cost.
Questions
Frequently asked
What buyers scoping a first bulk export order ask before the purchase order goes out.
Ask an engineerWhat counts as a bulk order here?
Anything comfortably above the roughly 500-piece economic floor where tooling clearly earns out, generally scoped by annual volume rather than a single order size, since that is what decides cavity count and tool design. Tell us the target annual volume on the RFQ and we design and quote the tool for that number.
Is there a maximum order size?
We do not publish one. Capacity depends on part size, cavity count and press schedule at the time of the RFQ, so a real ceiling comes back on your specific quote rather than as a number printed here that may not hold by the time you order.
Which Incoterm should a first bulk export order use?
FCA Delhi is the default and the one most first-time buyers start with. If customs clearance in your own country is unfamiliar territory, CIP to a named US port or DDP delivered moves more of that work onto us; ask for it explicitly and it goes on the quotation in writing.
How is quality checked across a large production run, not just the first article?
A first article inspection report is produced before any production quantity runs, then batch-level dimensional reports and material certificates are matched to the packing list and PO lines per shipment, not just once at the start of a multi-batch contract.
Can Trumould handle a repeat or call-off bulk contract rather than one-off orders?
Yes, that is the more common shape for a genuinely bulk relationship: one tool, scheduled call-offs against an agreed annual volume. State the cadence you need on the RFQ so the tool and the press schedule are built around it from the start rather than negotiated after the first batch.
More
Related pages
Where we manufacture and how we supply you
Regions served, Incoterms and the working relationship with an overseas buyer.
Molds and tooling
Cavity counts, tool steels and the tooling lead time that scales with volume.
What drives injection molding part cost
Tooling amortisation, piece price and what changes at real volume.
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