Detailed description
If the last shipment had edges fraying, a width that measured wide on arrival, or a peel that read low in incoming inspection, the cause is almost always in one of the four items described on this page rather than in the price.
What the buyer is choosing
The mistake in comparing quotes is looking at the width and the colour and ignoring the yarn. A 25 mm roll at 380 g/m2 and a 25 mm roll at 300 g/m2 look identical in a photograph and behave completely differently after five hundred cycles.
The material question
This is a nylon-polyester blend rather than a single fibre. The nylon share carries the cycle life and the colour depth; the polyester share carries dimensional stability and the price. Blends are quoted by ratio, so if the ratio is not stated, the two quotes you are comparing are not for the same product.
How it is quoted
Minimum order is 500 m in a stock colour and 3,000 m for a custom dye run. The dye minimum is a machine load, not a policy: below it the lot cannot be dyed evenly, and a split lot reads as two colours under D65.
What ships with the goods
Peel and width are measured on the production lot, not on a sample kept from an earlier run. If your incoming inspection uses a different pull speed or dwell time, tell us and we will match it so the two numbers can be compared.
Checking it on arrival
On arrival, measure the width at the core and at the outside of the roll before you cut anything. A roll that measures wide at one end and nominal at the other was slit under uneven tension, and the whole lot will behave the same way on your line.
If you are comparing suppliers, send the other quotes with the specifications attached and we will tell you which line item is the one that will move on the invoice.
