Custom Polycarbonate Sunglasses

It means both the frame and the lens are polycarbonate. Many suppliers call a pair "polycarbonate" when only the lens is PC and the frame is TR90, acetate or metal. If your brand sells on durability and weight, you want that property in both parts. Writing "polycarbonate frame and polycarbonate lens" on the order — or the industry shorthand "PC frame PC lens" — removes the ambiguity and stops a substitution quietly changing what your customer receives.

Our MOQ starts at 100 pairs per colour on standard moulds, which is realistic for a first private-label run. A custom mould exclusive to your brand raises the MOQ to roughly 500-1,000 pairs per colour because the tooling has to be amortised. Our advice for a first product: launch on a standard mould with your own decoration rather than spending your budget on an exclusive shape you cannot yet fill.

Yes, and it is the cheapest way to make a standard mould feel like your own brand. We offer pad printing and heat-transfer logos on the temple, laser engraving, frame colour matched to your Pantone reference, and branded packaging — cases, boxes, cleaning cloths and hang tags. You provide artwork in AI or EPS format and we handle the rest.

Plan for three buckets, not one. The per-pair cost runs roughly $3.50-$9.00 FOB for full PC depending on lens tint, coating, frame finish and packaging. Then there are one-time costs: samples and any tooling. And the bucket most new brands forget — freight, duties and packaging if you go beyond a plain poly bag. Budget all three from the start and the run stays profitable.

Realistically six to ten weeks. Sampling and approval take one to three weeks depending on how quickly you respond; production runs 15-25 days after sample approval; freight adds 5-7 days by air, longer by sea. The biggest cause of delay is slow feedback on samples, not the factory — so decide fast and the schedule holds.

It is a strong default if your positioning is durability, outdoor, sport, kids or everyday value, because full PC is impact-resistant, light and economical to make at modest volume. If your brand is fashion-led and sells on frame finish, an acetate frame with a PC lens may serve you better even at higher cost. Match the material to the story you are actually selling.