一個好的采購，每年能為公司省下不少的費用，尤其在化妝品包材行業，都是過萬數量的定制，如果能每件單價壓縮一毛兩毛供應商的利潤空間，那每單省下的預算十分可觀了，那作為一個化妝品包材行業的采購，應該具備哪些采購知識與技巧呢？

Cosmetic packaging materials are divided into the main container and auxiliary materials. The main container usually have: plastic bottles, glass bottles, tubes, vacuum bottles. Auxiliary materials are usually: color boxes, boxes, boxes, each type of package procurement knowledge varies, Yu plastic packaging will be divided into each type of package products, a separate analysis, in accordance with the current industry's approximate situation, to give you an approximate direction of procurement, I hope to help you:

I. Plastic bottles

1, plastic bottle material is usually PP, PE, K material, AS, ABS, acrylic, PET and so on.
2, usually used for cosmetic containers with thicker wall cream bottles, caps, stoppers, gaskets, pumps, dust cover for injection molding; PET blow molding for two-step molding, tube embryo for injection molding, finished packaging for blowing bottles. Other containers such as lotion bottles with thin walls, washing bottles for blow molding.
3, PET material is an environmentally friendly material, with high barrier properties, lightweight, non-crushing properties, chemical resistance, transparency is very strong, can be made into pearl, tinted, magnetic white, transparent, widely used in the installation of gel water. Bottle mouth is generally standard 16#, 18#, 22#, 24# caliber, can be used with a pump head.
4, acrylic material for injection molded bottles, chemical resistance is poor, generally can not be directly loaded with cream, need to match the liner barrier, filling is not easy to be too full, to prevent cream into the liner and acrylic bottles, so as to avoid cracking, the transportation of the packaging requirements of the higher, due to the scratches look particularly obvious after the translucency of the high sense of the wall on the extra-thick, but the price is quite expensive.
5, AS, ABS: AS transparency is better than ABS, and better toughness.
6, mold development costs: blow molds for 1500 yuan -4000 yuan, injection molds for 8000 yuan -20000 yuan ranging, molds with stainless steel material is more expensive than the use of alloy materials, but durable, molds once out of a few, depending on the demand of the production volume, such as the production volume of larger quantities, you can choose one out of four or one out of six molds, the customer can decide. Customers can decide by themselves.
7, the order quantity is generally 3,000-10,000, can customize the color, usually do the original color frosted and magnetic white-based, or add pearl powder effect, although the bottle and cover with the same color masterbatch, but sometimes due to the bottle and cover with different materials, the performance of the color is a little different.
8, silkscreen with ordinary ink and UV ink, UV ink effect is better, glossy and three-dimensional, in the production should first hit the plate to confirm the color, in different materials silkscreen effect will be different.
9, hot stamping, hot stamping silver and other processing technology and printing gold powder, silver powder effect is different, hard material and smooth surface is more suitable for hot stamping gold, hot stamping silver, soft surface hot stamping effect is not good, easy to fall off, hot stamping gold and silver gloss is better than the printing of gold and silver.
10, silkscreen film should be out of the negative, the graphic effect is black, the background color is transparent, hot stamping, hot stamping silver process should be out of the positive, the graphic effect is transparent, the background color is black. The proportion of text and pattern should not be too small or too thin, otherwise the effect will not be printed.
11, the bottle cap is generally equipped with internal gasket, pull cap, internal plug, very few with a small spoon or dropper, which is mainly to consider its sealing and ease of use.
12, the production cycle is more moderate, about 15 days cycle, screen printing cylindrical bottles for single-color calculation, flat bottles or shaped bottles according to the two-color or multi-color calculation, usually charge the first screen printing screen fee or fixture fee, screen printing unit price is generally 0.08 yuan / color times to 0.1 yuan / color times, screen 100 yuan -200 yuan / paragraph, fixture of about 50 yuan / one.

II. Glass bottles

1, glass bottleUsed in cosmetics are mainly divided into: skin care products (creams, lotions), perfume, essential oils, nail polish several categories of smaller capacity, greater than 200ml capacity is rarely used in cosmetics.
2, glass bottles are divided into wide-mouth bottles, narrow-mouth bottles, solid creams generally use wide-mouth bottles, suitable with electrochemical aluminum cap or plastic cap, the cap can be used for color spray oil and other effects; emulsion or aqueous creams are generally used in narrow-mouth bottles, suitable for use with the pump head, pay attention to prevent the rust of the spring and the ball, most of the pump head with the glass beads, usually for the material to test the applicability of the body test, such as with the cap needs to be matched with the inner stopper, the aqueous with a small hole with the internal plug, thicker lotions with large holes with internal plugs. The thicker emulsion is equipped with large hole inner plug.
3, glass bottles more consistent selection of materials, more shapes, processing technology, and cap with a variety of common bottle shape cylindrical, oval, flat, prismatic, conical, etc., manufacturers often develop a series of bottle shape. Bottle process has spraying, transparent, frosted, translucent color, screen printing, hot stamping, hot stamping silver.
4, silkscreen: glass bottle silkscreen usually have two kinds, one is a high temperature ink silkscreen, which is characterized by not easy to get rid of color, the color is more dull, purple toning is more difficult to get the effect, the other is a low-temperature ink silkscreen, the color is more colorful, the requirements of the ink is higher, otherwise easy to fall off, and in the bottle disinfection should be paid attention to.
5, the effect of spraying generally add another 0.5 yuan - 1.1 yuan / one, depending on the area and the difficulty of adjusting the color, silkscreen for 0.1 yuan / color, cylindrical bottles can be calculated as a single color, shaped bottles according to the two-color or multi-color calculations, hot stamping gold and silver 0.4 yuan / paragraph.
6. If the glass bottles are handmade, there will be a little deviation in the capacity, which should be tested and correctly labeled when choosing, such as automatic production lines are more uniform, but the shipment requirements are larger, the cycle is relatively long, and the capacity is more stable.
7, the uneven thickness of the glass bottle will be easy to lead to damage, or in the cold conditions are easy to be the contents of the extrusion, should be tested in the filling of a reasonable capacity, in the transportation of the application of the paper hold and a single partition, in the product should be equipped with color box, the inner bracket and the middle of the box can be taken to the role of vibration prevention.
8, Glass bottles commonly used bottle shape usually have stock, such as essential oil bottles, ordinary transparent or frosted bottles. The production cycle of glass bottles is longer, faster than the need for 20 days, some supply period to 45 days, the general order quantity of 5,000 to 10,000, the smaller the bottle shape to do the greater the amount of the cycle and the starting quantity will be affected by the peak season, off-season.
9, open mold costs: handmade mold in about 2,500 yuan, automatic mold is generally about 4,000 yuan a, 1 out of 4 or 1 out of 8 to 16,000 yuan -32,000 yuan or so, depending on the conditions of the manufacturer.
10, the cap process can be electrochemical aluminum engraving, hot stamping edge, etching lines, matte glossy color points, to match the gasket and the inner cover, it is best to use with the pressure-sensitive sheet to strengthen the sealing effect.
11, essential oil bottles are usually used in teal or tinted and tinted frosted, can be protected from light, the cap with a safety ring, can be equipped with an internal stopper or dropper, perfume bottles are usually equipped with a delicate spray pump head or plastic cap.

III. Hoses

1, the hose is divided into single-layer, double-layer, five-layer hose, respectively, in the anti-pressure, anti-infiltration and feel are different, such as five-layer tube by the outer layer, the inner layer, two adhesive layer, and another barrier layer. Characteristics: excellent gas barrier performance, can effectively prevent the penetration of oxygen and odor gases, while preventing the contents of the fragrance and the effective ingredients of the exudate.
2, double-layer tube is more commonly used, is a low-grade can also be used in single-layer, hose caliber 13#-60# a variety of calibers, selected a certain caliber of the hose, different lengths marked with different capacity characteristics, capacity of 3 ml -360 ml can be adjusted for the sake of aesthetics and coordination, commonly used for 60 ml or below For the sake of aesthetics and coordination, the caliber below 35# is commonly used for 60ml, 35#-45# is usually used for 100ml and 150ml, and 45# is used for more than 150ml.
3, process is divided into round tube, oval tube, flat tube, super flat tube. Flat tube, ultra-flat tube is more complex than other tube technology, but also in recent years out of the new tube, so the price is correspondingly more expensive.
4, the hose cap shape is diverse, generally divided into flat cap, round cap, high cap, lift the cap, super flat cap, double cap, spherical cap, lipstick cap, plastic cap can also be a variety of processes on the processing, hot stamping edge, silver edge, tinted cap, transparent, oil spraying, plating, etc., the tip of the cap and the lipstick cap is usually equipped with an internal plug. Hose cap for injection molding products, the hose for the pull tube, most of the hose manufacturers themselves do not produce hose cap.
5, some products need to be filled before sealing, sealing is divided into: straight sealing, twill sealing, umbrella sealing, star sealing, shaped sealing, sealing can be required to seal the end of the print out the required date code.
6, the hose can be colored tube, transparent tube, colored or transparent frosted, pearlescent tube, and there are matte and glossy points, matte looks elegant but easy to dirty, colored tube and tube body large area of the difference between the printing, can be judged from the end of the incision, the incision at the white for the large-area printing tube, with the high requirements of the ink, otherwise easy to fall off and folded and will be cracked and exposed white marks.
7, the hose production cycle is generally 15 days -20 days cycle (from the confirmation of the sample tube to start counting) order quantity of a single product for 5,000-10,000, large-scale manufacturers usually 10,000 for the starting quantity, very few small manufacturers if the variety of products, a single product to count the 3,000 starting quantity can be, very few customers to open their own molds, the vast majority of the public molds (a small number of special features of) the contract quantity and the actual supply quantity of ± 10% deviation in this industry. (A few characteristics of the cover is a private mold) contract quantity and the actual number of supplies, the industry has ± 10% deviation.
8, the quality of the hose and different manufacturers have a large difference in price, plate fee is usually 200 yuan to color -300 yuan price, the tube body can be multi-color printing and silkscreen, individual manufacturers have thermal transfer printing equipment and technology. Hot stamping, hot stamping silver to the area of the unit price to calculate, silkscreen effect is better, the cost is more expensive and fewer manufacturers, should be based on different levels of demand to choose different manufacturers.

IV. Dispensers/pump heads

1, the dispenser is divided into two types of zigzag type and screw type, from the function is divided into spray, foundation cream, lotion pump, aerosol valve, vacuum bottle
2, the size of the pump head to match the caliber of the bottle to determine the specifications of the spray 12.5mm-24mm, the water output of 0.1ml / times -0.2ml / times, generally used for perfume, gel and other products packaged with the caliber of the same length of the receiver can be determined according to the height of the bottle.
3, emulsion pump specifications range from 16ml to 38ml, the water output is 0.28ml/time-3.1ml/time, generally used for cream and washing products.
4, special dispensers such as foam pump head and hand-clasp nozzle, foam pump head is a non-gas filling type hand-pressure pump head, do not need to fill the gas to produce foam, just gently press to produce quantitative high-quality foam. They are usually supplied with a special bottle. Hand held spray guns are usually used for products such as detergents.
5, the composition of the dispenser is more complex, generally include: dust cover, snap head, snap lever, gasket, piston, spring, valve, cap, pump body, suction tube, valve ball (steel ball, glass ball). Bottle cap, dust cap can be made colored, can be plated, can set of electrochemical aluminum ring. Due to a set of pump head involves more molds, and order quantity is larger, the starting quantity of 10,000-20,000, the supply period after the confirmation of the sample of 15 days-20 days, white and general-purpose often in stock.
6, vacuum bottle is usually cylindrical, specifications 15ml-50ml, individual 100ml, the overall capacity is small, relying on the principle of atmospheric pressure, to avoid the use of cosmetics in the process of pollution, vacuum bottles have electrochemical aluminum, plastic plating and colored plastics, the price is more expensive than the other universal containers, the ordinary order is not high.
7. Distributor customers rarely open their own molds, the mold to be handed over more, the cost is higher.

V. Color printing

1, color printing mainly includes color combination, color printing set of boxes, manuals, leaflets, posters, albums and color printing stickers and so on.
2, the requirements and selection of complex materials, packaging color box is also known as folding carton, generally with 350g single copper paper, according to the volume and the weight of the contents of the appropriate thickness of cardboard, choose different grades of paper, can be matched with corrugated cardboard as a liner, to take to the fixed, vibration or due to the container is small, the size of the color box can be increased to increase the appearance of the generous, the bottom of the box is designed to ensure the strength of the design principle is to ensure that we must strive to keep it simple, for the Manual assembly will save time.
3, color printing set of boxes, first color printing after laminating can do different specifications modeling, color printing laminating paper layer for the single copper, aluminized paper, can choose different specifications of the gray board paper or medium fiberboard, more handmade, higher cost, with the regular will be matched with the tote bag, blister/sponge/paper tray, silk cloth used together.
4, the instructions can choose ordinary paper 60g-80g or 105g and 128g, 157g coated paper, leaflets and posters or albums generally use more than 105g coated paper.
5, printing stickers, can choose coated paper and all kinds of material stickers, silver aluminum paper or transparent PVC and other materials.
6, in order to protect the design effect, and color printing to follow the order of the actual sample can be compared, in the output of the film can be computer proofing, according to the color and size of the charge, usually 75 yuan / p
7, color printing can do the process and the appearance of the effect of surface grinding or over the glossy glue, matte glue, laser film, hot gold and silver and convex effect, beer, sticky box forming or bonding PVC film (also known as window) and thermal, color onion process, uv effect, and so on.
8, thermal embossing process, printing without embossing on the obvious three-dimensional effect, thermal embossing powder fluorescent, matte and a variety of color effects, color onion process (more used in greeting cards)
9, laser has silver card, gold card two color system, can be made into rainbow and local hologram overlay card, has a high anti-counterfeiting effect.
10, frosted process for aluminized film, aluminum foil paper, process features a strong sense of metal, color harmony and noble, comfortable feel, can also be metal etching effect.
11. Color printing charges and characteristics:
A) Design, electrical score output, proofing, and calculation by P;
(B) color printing start-up costs ($ 800 - $ 1,200) minimum consumption, reasonable layout and increase the print run, can reduce the unit price.
(C) according to the number of post-processes and the degree of difficulty to determine the relevant cost implications, such as over the light glue, riding nails, folding, pressing line over the
Gum, all have corresponding charges and minimum spending.
12, the production cycle of general color printing to 3-5 days, set of boxes depending on the difficulty of the process, the appropriate increase in working days, set of boxes, such as to be framed, with too much glue, the delivery period will also be affected by the weather.
13. Notes:
A) In order to avoid the finished product and the design of the color sample deviation is large, should be printed on the machine proofing confirmation and as a quality control standards.
B) The folding method of the instruction manual should be clear and uniform, and the color printing type of transport packaging should be explained, such as the set of boxes can be considered for secondary use.
(C) The tote bag can be designed with one side opening or both sides opening, which can save the cost in both printing and filming.
(D) Printing volume refers to the weight of paper used rather than the number of finished products after printing, such as instructions for smaller sizes, the need for larger quantities to count the economic order quantity
(E) the design should be in line with the color printing specifications, for example, hot stamping film should be out of the negative, the other out of the positive, the composition of the way to adapt to the characteristics of the printing.
14, such as doing less and can not meet the printing of the minimum or more economical order quantity, can be directly through the color paper effect laminating box, in order to reduce costs.

VI. Aluminum-platinum bags

1、According to the material, there are pure aluminum bags, aluminum-plated bags, PV, PE, BOPP, PET, PEGT bags and so on.
2, the form of three-side sealing bags, medium sealing bags, stick bone bags, upright bags, vacuum bags and roll bags.
3, aluminum platinum bags and shrink film material characteristics: good for preservation of freshness, quality and shelf-life extension of high-barrier plastic packaging materials, with low cost, light weight, impact resistance, can be transparent, microwave heating, convenience and packaging design options, etc..
4, Pure aluminum bags have a metallic texture, easy to wrinkle, can be color printing, aluminized bags can be printed in matte, glossy, softer, suitable for lotions and creams trial packaging.PET, aluminized PET, CPE is suitable for shampoos or liquids, BOPP/CPE is suitable for laundry detergent and other daily necessities packaging.
5, the cost of pure aluminum bags than plated bags about 30% higher unit price, economic order quantity is larger, large manufacturers to higher than small manufacturers, 4cm × 10cm bags, for example, large manufacturers generally 100,000 for the order quantity, small manufacturers about 30,000 order quantity, such as making rolls of film, not printing can be done from 30 to 50 kg, about 38 yuan / kg, such as printing to 100kg order quantity, about 45 yuan / kg, the film needs special filling equipment, roll film to do the number of bags to 6cm × 9cm, for example, 10g about 1,200 / kg (6cm × 8cm, 8g about 1,500 / kg,). Rolls of film need special filling equipment, rolls of film to do the number of bags to 6cm x 9cm, for example, 10g loaded about 1200 / kg (6cm x 8cm, 8g loaded about 1500 / kg, 5cm x 7cm, 6g loaded about 1600 / kg)
6, the design is determined and then provide MO or CD-ROM production and color samples (PinTon) as the basis for plate making, and require manufacturers to first sample to confirm before arranging production.
7, plate fee: according to different specifications of the manufacturer's equipment requirements and design graphic requirements, plate costs are different, generally between 850 yuan to 1500 yuan / color, there are electro-engraving version and the ordinary version of the difference, the text alone can be used line plate.
8, the production cycle even plate time is generally 15 days -20 days, the production will have ± 10% quantity deviation.
9, the production of production bags by high-temperature composite, cleaner, filling without special sterilization.
10, such as tote bags, gift bags and printing requirements of customers, to use a better version to have better results.
11, bag filling and costs, packaging materials for a single, processing fee of 0.08 yuan / a, processing order quantity of 1,000 packages, the loss of materials 2%; roll film materials, processing fee of 0.03 yuan / a, processing order quantity of 10,000 packages, the loss of materials is about 0.8kg (for the adjustment of the machine and the actual amount of filling with).

VII. Silk-screen printing

1, screen printing is generally used as a graphic marking process for packaging products, which has an important impact on the image of the product, so it is more demanding in terms of technology.
2, glass bottle silkscreen: in the blank transparent or frosted or spray effect of the bottle silkscreen, to choose high-temperature ink, coloring by high-temperature baking and out, will not fade and not easy to scratch, the color is more subdued, to select the high-temperature furnace manufacturers for silkscreen, the starting volume of more than 5,000, 5,000 or less according to the 500 yuan / paragraph / color charges, 5,000 or more according to the $ 0.1 / color time calculation.
3, in the design should be considered up to not more than 2 colors, out of the film to be out of the negative, text, patterns, lines should not be too fine or too large, easy to cause broken lines or ink accumulation phenomenon, should be proofed before mass production to confirm, to avoid color differences.
4, if the frosted glass bottles have misprints can be repolished process and then printed, the processing fee of 0.1 yuan -0.2 yuan / one.
5, round bottles printed in the same color according to a color, flat or oval, etc., according to the number of printed surfaces and the number of printed colors on the printed surface as the basis for calculation.
6, plastic containers, ordinary ink and UV ink screen printing, UV ink is more widely used, the word and figure has a three-dimensional sense, more glossy, not easy to fade, can be printed in multi-color effect, the starting volume of print is generally more than 1000.
7, glass bottles and plastic bottles screen printing to version of the fee, such as new specifications for packaging bottles and screen printing plant without this corresponding fixture to charge fixture fee, but can do a certain amount of screen printing to offset this cost, such as business amount of more than 20,000 can be exempted from this cost, the situation of the various manufacturers have different conditions, the general screen printing screen plate fee of 50-100 yuan / a fixture fee 50 yuan / a. Stamping plate fee is 200 RMB/pc.
8, batch screen printing before sampling, confirm the effect of graphic screen printing after production, after confirming the production adjustment cycle of 4-5 days, depending on the difficulty of screen printing and the number of different.
9, usually screen printing factory has hot stamping, hot stamping silver and other processing technology, screen printing methods have manual, mechanical screen printing, pad printing and sticker pad printing and other technologies.
10, in the production of the use of silkscreen bottles, should pay attention to avoid excessive handling or collision, to avoid grinding flower silkscreen effect, the production of attention to choose a reasonable way of sterilization.
11, screen printing costs as low as 0.06 yuan / color, but need to pay special attention to screen printing is not good enough to achieve the desired design effect, there may be scrapped the whole batch of containers. Silkscreen can be printed according to the percentage of spot-color screen printing can be achieved in rich colors.

VIII. Plastic absorbing category

1、 Blister packages are commonly used in packaging bottle cushion cards and gift sets within the set of molding, packaging and packaging solid bottom cushion and promotional rack selection.
2, Blister product categories, used in cosmetics are mainly mask, folded edge blister, bottom edge, turnover plate, folded, bottom set, tri-fold blister.
3. Blister material:
A, PVC transparent, translucent, frosted effect or multi-color Thickness 0.12mm-0.8mm
B, PS various colors Thickness 0.2mm-0.8mm
C、APET（Environmental friendly material）can be folded, not hot edge Thickness 0.2mm-0.8mm
D、PETG(Environmental friendly material) can be flocked and high-pressure wave Thickness 0.2mm-0.8mm
E. Flocking sheet (with PVC and PS backing) various colors Thickness 0.2mm-0.8mm
4. The process and time of making the blister mold:
Start the plaster mold manually, in addition to three days is the time required for tri-fold vacuum molding, other categories only need two days, electrolytic copper mold needs 4 days to 6 days, meet the special urgent goods can be used in resin mold, but easy to shrink, the production of more than the number of vacuum molding dimensions and the model will be changed.
5. Vacuum molding department and punch press time:
Under normal circumstances, if it is the first order, after the other party to confirm the sample to the final delivery of about five days, the second delivery will take three days.
6, because it involves mold cost sharing, generally require to do a larger amount of finished product unit price will be lower, that is, to achieve the economic order quantity.
7. Mold costs and requirements:
Copper mold about 500 yuan / set -800 yuan / set, depending on the different manufacturers and production volume and order, such as a single blister area of small manufacturers can be made into a punch 4 -8 finished products. In the opening of the mold need to provide physical do model, in order to match the beautiful transparent or white blister will be matched with silk cloth together, blister can also be used in different densities of sponge or pearl sponge instead of sponge, sponge color has a variety of white sponge after a long time the appearance of yellowing, and in the transport of materials and warehouses accounted for a lot of space.

IX. Semi-finished products for film application

1, the main categories of the film:
Facial mask, eye mask, nose mask, neck mask, lip mask, umbilical membrane, hand film, foot film, breast film and other film products, according to customer needs using different materials and modeling processing, such as the eye mask has eight-shaped, crescent-shaped, and so on.
2, the film category is divided into full viscose (also known as cotton), blended (generally 8:2 mixed) cotton paper, spunlace, poncho paper, etc., commonly used for full viscose and blended materials.
3, the full adhesive film class is more submissive, not easy to deform, absorb more serum, do finished products can be saved for 2-3 years.
4, blended film type (all viscose accounted for 80%, others, such as tapestries accounted for 20%) is also more comfortable, less absorption, applicable to a wider range.
5, spunlace fabrics containing chemical fiber components can easily cause the user's skin sensitivity, so do not advocate the use of other materials less use.
6, the principle of selecting materials, paste the area of large with 40g to 80g full viscose or blended, paste the area of small with more than 60g better, such as eye film, nasal film, etc., the specific criteria for product planning as a guide can be adjusted.
7, modeling processing can be generally in accordance with the requirements of the new mold processing, the cost of about 100 yuan -200 yuan / one or so, ordering materials to 15 days or so, the processing of stock materials about three days can be delivered in batches.
8、 Membrane can be matched with pearlescent film sheet to keep the shape and the effect of the product.
9, the general order quantity of about 50,000 for the economic order quantity, can be free of template fee.

I believe that after reading each of the aboveCosmetic PackagingTypes of procurement prices and other knowledge, you currently have a very clear direction of cosmetic packaging materials procurement has a very clear understanding of the direction of the paper is shallow, absolute knowledge of the matter to be practiced, this knowledge gives you a direction of the heart of the price prediction, but the specific price situation or have to be based on the market situation, negotiation skills, etc. to.