1300 ml / 1400 ml. It is the one with a plastic body rather than steel, which keeps the unit price down, microwave compatibility, which the stainless models cannot offer. Custom logo from 500 pieces.
The stacking compartments keep dishes separate, so rice does not sit in sauce for four hours before lunch.
Also on the buyer’s checklist here: the plastic grade, single-wall, stainless steel, inner liner, students, cost advantage.
What that looks like on the bench: Compartments that keep dishes separate through a four-hour wait. Microwave compatibility, which stainless bodies cannot offer. The footprint fits a normal bag without displacing everything else. The weight stays low enough that it gets carried daily rather than left at home. The body takes a microwave, which most stainless containers cannot. The compartments keep dishes separate so rice does not sit in sauce for four hours.
Also on the buyer’s checklist here: the plastic grade, single-wall, food-grade materials, children, portability, cost advantage.
When we ask why they reordered, the answers cluster: complaints are rare enough that the buyer stops budgeting for replacements; the entry quantity is low enough to trial without a warehouse full of stock; the landed cost still works at their shelf price; end-user repurchase is high enough that the retailer keeps the facing. Reorders are the only honest measure in this business: a first order tells you the price was right, a third tells you the product was.
Also cited on repeat orders: food-grade materials, the plastic grade, odour resistance, cost advantage, in stock, minimum order, volume, shipment planning.
Choosing between them
How TM-1020 compares with the rest of the range
Buyers rarely arrive knowing which model they want — they arrive knowing the brief. This table is the fastest way to check whether TM-1020 is the right answer or whether a sibling fits better. The row highlighted is the one you are looking at. Every model listed runs from 500 pieces per design.
plastic body rather than steel, which keeps the price down
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Every model above ships from 500 pieces per design. Mixing several of them in one container is normal — a 20ft container holds roughly 26 m³ of cartons, so a mixed load is planned on carton volume rather than on piece count. Send the full list at enquiry rather than model by model.
Who is buying TM-1020, and what they do with it
A stationery shop in São Paulo, Brazil takes this one for students. The orders themselves are for school procurement. How the account runs: they reorder in small frequent batches rather than one large drop; ordering in volume; and end-user repurchase is strong enough that the facing keeps earning its space.
Also on the buyer’s checklist here: students, high volume, restock, value for money, shipment planning.
Where it ends up: a commute where there is no microwave at the other end; baby food carried warm rather than reheated; camping and days out; desk use through a working day; portion-controlled meal prep; canteen service; picnics. Each of those puts a different demand on the product, which is worth saying out loud when you brief us.
Also on the buyer’s checklist here: students, office workers, office use, outdoor use, camping.
One order that tested it: A buyer in Kenya with their own logo printed timed to the start of a school year. We ran the line on overtime and moved their batch up the queue, we split the run across batches so the first pallets could ship while the rest finished. They now order on a monthly cycle. Worth knowing because it shows what the line can absorb when a date is genuinely fixed, rather than what we would promise on a quotation.
Also in play on that job: volume, shipment planning, custom decoration, back-to-school, consistent reorder.
Importers & wholesalers
This model packs 50 per carton (68.5cm×55cm×37cm for the base size — the full carton table is in the spec above), and that number decides how many pieces fit a 20ft container far more than the FOB price does. What decides your landed cost here is the carton, not the unit price: ask for the container plan before you fix a retail price, because a wide-body jar fills a 20ft on volume long before it hits the weight limit. We quote EXW Yongkang, FOB Ningbo or Shanghai, or DDP door to door, and we will say which of the three costs you least given where you are rather than defaulting to whichever is easiest for us.
Brand owners & private label
On TM-1020 the stock range is 3 colours (blue, green, red), so a Pantone match is only worth the 1,000-piece run if none of those is close enough. Budget it as three lines, not one: decoration sits inside the unit price, a matched Pantone is its own spray run from 1,000 pieces, and packaging is separate with its own tooling and proofing round. Brands that budget these as a single number are the ones surprised at quotation: decoration sits in the unit price, a matched Pantone is a separate spray run from 1,000 pieces, and a printed colour box carries its own tooling and one proofing round. We sign an NDA before you share artwork, and a shape you tool for stays reserved to you — the same terms we have run with Hallmark since 2017 and with KRAUS for over ten years.
Retail chains
TM-1020 packs 50 per carton, so a 12-store drop lands on a clean carton multiple rather than a split case. Retail-ready means more than a colour box: UPC or EAN printed and scan-tested before the carton is sealed, carton marking to your own packaging manual, and inner counts that match what your DC expects. A barcode that fails at the till becomes a chargeback, and it is entirely preventable at our end: we print and scan-test every UPC or EAN before the carton is sealed. Ask for the retail packaging spec sheet with your first quote — it lists carton dimensions, inner counts and the UPC placement we scan-test before sealing.
Promotional distributors
TM-1020 runs 2 capacities on one design, so a mixed-size order still moves as a single production run rather than 2 queued ones. Work backwards from the in-hands date, not forwards from the order date: 7–10 days for a pre-production sample, about 30 days production after approval, then 30–35 days sea freight to Europe or 25–30 to the US west coast. Production is 30 days after deposit and artwork approval, plus 7–10 days for a printed pre-production sample, plus sea freight — roughly 30–35 days to Europe, 25–30 to the US west coast. Late artwork is normal in this business; a date discovered late is not survivable — artwork approval is what starts the 30-day production clock, not the deposit. Tell us the date at enquiry and we will say honestly whether it is achievable.
End users & institutions
This one is plastic, so laser engraving is not an option — the mark has to be printed or moulded in. In-mould labelling survives commercial dishwashing far better than a surface print, and it is worth the tooling if the programme repeats. Ask us to quote both before you decide. This one is plastic, so ask for in-mould labelling rather than surface print if it goes through a commercial washer. FNSKU labels, Prop 65 and suffocation warnings applied here, cartons built to FBA dimension limits, and we can split a shipment across fulfilment centres if you send the plan. Doing it at the factory removes a prep-centre handling fee and about a week of transit on every restock. Watch dimensional weight on this category — the carton is light for its size, so FBA usually bills on volume.
Failures we hear about from buyers who switch to us
These are the failures buyers describe when they explain why they are switching. None of them are exotic — they are what gets cut when a quote has to come in lower.
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An inner wall that is not really 304
Lower grades rust and hold odours, and food picks that up immediately. Ours is 304 throughout, stated on the invoice.
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Snaps
This is the failure buyers describe when they explain why they changed supplier.
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Importers & wholesalers
— Workable from 500 pieces per design. At 50 pcs per 1300ml: 68.5cm×55cm×37cm; 1400ml: 68.5cm×55cm×37cm carton, a 20ft container takes roughly 9,300 pieces of this model alone — worked from the biggest of this model’s carton sizes, and confirmed on the pro forma once the load plan is fixed. Tell us the full model list at enquiry rather than one at a time — the quote changes when several models share a colour run or a carton size.
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Brand owners & private label
— Yes. Three separate lines to budget: the logo sits in the unit price, a matched Pantone is its own run at 1,000 pieces, and packaging is third — this model ships in a printed colour box as standard, and anything else is a separate tooling and proofing round.
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Retail chains
— Currently on shelves through buyers in this channel. Retail-ready colour boxes, printed UPC or EAN, and we scan-test the barcode before the carton is sealed.
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End users & institutions
— Suited to schools and campus retail, canteens and site catering, offices. For institutional buying, specify laser engraving rather than print — a printed logo on a coated body typically fades within one season of daily commercial dishwashing, while an engraved mark is cut into the 304 steel and does not.
Not the right pick if… — you need food to stay hot for hours. This model is not vacuum insulated — it is a container, not a flask. Look at our vacuum range instead and we will point you at the closest equivalent.
Where TM-1020 is actually made
Eight workshops in Yongkang, Zhejiang, running since 1998 — mould development, vacuum welding, injection moulding, spray painting, laser marking, printing, assembly, inspection and packing, all in one building. For TM-1020 the stage worth watching is compartment moulding and lid tooling.
Lunch boxes live or die on the lid. The body is straightforward — 304 liner, or food-grade PP on the vented models — but the lid carries the gasket, the latch and, on tiered models, the weight of everything above it. Injection moulding and gasket fitting run in the same building as assembly, so a lid problem is caught on the line rather than in a container. On the three vacuum models the liner is drawn and vacuum-tested as a semi-finished part, same as our flasks. On the compartment models the check is different: fill, close, invert, and watch the seams between compartments — a box that leaks soup into the rice reads as a defect even though nothing left the box.
We inspect 8% of every batch rather than a fixed sample per shipment. Buyers are welcome on site — eight workshops in Yongkang, Zhejiang, running since 1998, about three hours by road from Ningbo port and two from Hangzhou airport, which makes a factory visit a realistic side trip rather than a separate journey. Ask to see that bench specifically; it is where the difference shows — we check vacuum integrity on 100% of bodies at the semi-finished stage, before assembly and coating, because a micro-leak is undetectable once the jar is built.
Is TM-1020 the right one for your programme?
Importers & wholesalers — Workable from 500 pieces per design. At 50 pcs per 1300ml: 68.5 cm×55 cm×37 cm; 1400ml: 68.5 cm×55 cm×37 cm carton, a 20ft container takes roughly 1,500 pieces of this model alone. Tell us the full model list at enquiry rather than one at a time — the quote changes when several models share a colour run or a carton size.
Brand owners & private label — Yes. Three separate lines to budget: the logo sits in the unit price, a matched Pantone is its own run at 1,000 pieces, and packaging is third — this model ships in a printed colour box as standard, and anything else is a separate tooling and proofing round.
Retail chains — Currently on shelves through buyers in this channel. Retail-ready colour boxes, printed UPC or EAN, and we scan-test the barcode before the carton is sealed.
End users & institutions — Suited to schools and campus retail, canteens and site catering, offices. For institutional buying, specify laser engraving rather than print — a printed logo on a coated body typically fades within one season of daily commercial dishwashing, while an engraved mark is cut into the 304 steel and does not.
Not the right pick if… — you need food to stay hot for hours. This model is not vacuum insulated — it is a container, not a flask. Look at our vacuum range instead and we will point you at the closest equivalent.
FAQ
Ordering TM-1020 — common questions
Why TM-1020 rather than another model in this range?▾
This one runs 1300 ml / 1400 ml, and it is the one with a plastic body rather than steel, which keeps the unit price down, microwave compatibility, which the stainless models cannot offer. End users are office workers carrying a hot lunch, baby and toddler food, students and school lunches, outdoor and camping use, camping. The other models in this range answer different briefs. Describe the end use and we will tell you which one actually fits.
What is TM-1020 made of?▾
Single-wall food-grade plastic. The grade matters more than buyers expect: thin or recycled plastic warps in a dishwasher and picks up odours that pass to whatever goes in next. We state the material on the invoice so there is no ambiguity later.
Which colours can we order TM-1020 in?▾
Stock colours are blue, green, red — those run from 500 pieces per design. A matched Pantone is a separate spray or resin run and starts at 1,000 pieces. Mixed-colour containers are normal here: several buyers deliberately split a container across colours to see which ones move before committing to one.
How do we brand TM-1020?▾
On plastic the colour is compounded into the resin rather than sprayed on, so a custom body colour is a dedicated run and the colour cannot chip. Artwork goes on by silk screen, UV or heat transfer depending on how many colours it has.
What is the MOQ, lead time and carton spec for TM-1020?▾
Entry quantity is 500 per design. Custom Pantone doubles that to 1,000, since the colour is a separate spray or resin run rather than a stock item. Production runs 30 days after deposit and artwork approval, sample in 7–10 days. Packing is 50 pcs per carton at 1300ml: 68.5cm × 55cm × 37cm; 1400ml: 68.5cm × 55cm × 37cm. Terms are EXW, FOB Ningbo / Shanghai or DDP door to door — whichever suits how you already import.
Get a quote on TM-1020
Tell us the quantity, colours and how you want the logo applied — we reply within 24 hours, Monday to Saturday.
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