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# Polybag MOQ, and how many bags you actually get per 100 kg

By Ezra Andhika · Operational Director, PT Jaya Mandiri Packaging · August 4, 2026

![A JMP operator at the polybag cutting and sealing line, where rolls of film become individual bags.](https://jayamandiripackaging.com/photos/process-polybag-cutting.webp) 

Two polybag quotes on your desk. One says “MOQ 20,000 pcs.” The other says “MOQ 100 kg.” The question looks simple: which one is smaller?

You can’t answer it yet. Not for lack of care — those two numbers genuinely aren’t comparable.

The reason sits in the machine: what we run is film, and film is measured by weight. Why the unit is kilograms, and what that tells you about a supplier, is covered in [how to choose a polybag factory](https://jayamandiripackaging.com/en/articles/how-to-choose-a-polybag-factory). What isn’t covered anywhere: how many pieces actually come out of a given tonnage. That’s what this is.

## Our MOQ, so you’re not guessing

Our polybag MOQ moves — and what moves it isn’t bag size. It’s whether the bag is printed.

| Type | MOQ | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unprinted | **300 kg** | Down to **100 kg** when the spec is one we run commonly |
| Printed | **200 kg** | For a regular design; a new design has its cylinder cost quoted separately |

Note the unprinted row: **300 kg is the usual number, 100 kg is the specific route to it.** Both are written here deliberately. Advertising only “from 100 kg” reads better, but you’d discover the real figure after sending your spec — which is not how a working relationship should open.

## How many pieces come out of 100 kg

The formula is simple, and it works on anyone’s quote, not just ours:

**Weight of one bag = 2 × length × width × thickness × density**

Times two because a bag has two walls. PE density is about 0.92 g/cm³ (PP is slightly lighter). Convert thickness to centimetres first — 50 microns is 0.005 cm.

**Small bag, 30 × 20 cm, 50 micron:**2 × 30 × 20 × 0.005 = 6 cm³ → × 0.92 = **5.5 grams per bag**100 kg ÷ 5.5 g ≈ **18,000 pcs**

**Large bag, 60 × 40 cm, 100 micron:**2 × 60 × 40 × 0.01 = 48 cm³ → × 0.92 = **44 grams per bag**100 kg ÷ 44 g ≈ **2,300 pcs**

Identical tonnage. **Eight times the difference in pieces.**

That is exactly why a quote written in pieces, with no size and no micron attached, can mean almost anything.

One honest caveat: the figures above are arithmetic on paper. Real production runs slightly lower — seal allowance consumes material, and a gusset adds more. Use this to **compare quotes**, not as a promised piece count. If you need a binding number, send us a confirmed size and micron and we’ll calculate from your actual spec.

## Getting two quotes onto the same footing

Three steps, and you can do all of them before contacting anyone:

1. **Ask for every quote in the same unit.** Simplest: price per kilogram. It’s the unit the machine works in, so nothing needs interpreting.
2. **If a supplier answers in pieces, ask for the size and the micron.** Without both, a per-piece price can’t be compared. A supplier unwilling to state the micron has told you something in itself.
3. **Convert using the formula above.** Now both quotes sit in the same unit and you can see which is genuinely cheaper.

How to read and write micron correctly — including the mistake that shows up most often on spec sheets — is in the[Polybag 101 guide](https://jayamandiripackaging.com/en/products/polybag/guide#tebal-h).

## If 300 kg is more than you need

There is one lever genuinely worth pulling: **use a specification we already run regularly.** That is what takes unprinted MOQ from 300 kg down to 100 kg.

The range we cover is wide enough to make that likely:

* Width **5–100 cm**, cut or roll length **5–70 cm**
* Thickness **30–120 micron**
* Flexo print up to **3 colours**, front and back

So before you fix a size yourself, send the part. Often the dimension you need only has to shift a centimetre or two to land on a spec we run routinely — and the MOQ drops with it. That’s a ten-minute conversation, not a design revision.

To be straight about why the number can’t keep falling: changing size and colour on the line takes roughly the same time whether you order 100 kg or two tonnes. The changeover cost is fixed, and spread across too small a tonnage it lands in your price per kilogram. It isn’t a question of willingness.

## Regular usage doesn’t have to sit in your warehouse

MOQ and stock get conflated constantly. You can order a tonnage that makes sense for the machine without all of it arriving at your warehouse at once.

The pattern we run through [Flex-Stock](https://jayamandiripackaging.com/en/automotive-vmi): we produce ahead and hold a buffer of roughly **four weeks** of your consumption, you call off **twice a week**, and the delivery leaves **the following morning**. Because carton box and polybag are made under the same roof, one call-off can carry both.

## What we need in order to calculate

So the answer is a number rather than a range:

* Bag size (length × width), or the part’s weight and shape if the size isn’t fixed yet
* Rough monthly requirement
* Printed or plain — and if printed, how many colours
* PE or PP, if already decided ([the difference](https://jayamandiripackaging.com/en/articles/pe-vs-pp-polybag-differences))

No firm dimensions yet? A photo of the part is enough to start.[Send us the spec](https://jayamandiripackaging.com/en/contact) — we’ll calculate it first, including how many pieces that tonnage yields, and then you decide.

Source: PT Jaya Mandiri Packaging (JMP) — carton box & polybag manufacturer for the automotive industry since 1990\. jayamandiripackaging.com

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