What is your minimum order per colour?

It depends on the base fabric and whether the shade is from our stock range or a custom lab dip. Stock shades start considerably lower than custom ones. Send the fabric and shade you have in mind and we will quote the exact minimum rather than a marketing number.

Can you match a colour I already sell?

Yes. Send a physical swatch, a hex value, or a colour reference from your existing supplier. We produce three lab dips against it and you approve the closest one on real fabric before bulk dyeing starts.

What does GSM actually change?

GSM is grams per square metre — the fabric's weight. Lower weights are lighter and more sheer with a fluid fall; higher weights are more opaque, warmer and hold their shape. Every base fabric in our range runs across a band rather than a single fixed weight, so you choose where in that band your product sits.

How long does production take?

Around 15 days from approved sample to finished goods for a standard order. Full sampling takes around 10 days and lab dips happen before that clock starts. If your deadline is tighter, tell us the date up front — we would rather say no than miss it.

What volume can you handle?

Our capacity is about 500,000 pieces per month, so repeat programmes and seasonal peaks do not push your next order down the queue. Small first orders are welcome too — capacity is there for when you scale.

Which countries do you ship to?

We currently export to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. If your market is not on that list, ask — it usually just means we have not shipped there yet, not that we cannot.

Do you supply roll goods or finished hijabs?

Both. We can ship fabric by the roll for your own cutting and sewing, or deliver finished pieces cut, hemmed, labelled and retail-packed under your brand.

Can you produce our labels and packaging?

Yes — woven labels, care labels, hang tags, thank-you cards, retail sleeves and rigid gift boxes are all finished in-house. Upload your logo in the customization studio to see it placed on each one.

Which certifications can you provide?

The mill holds OEKO-TEX Standard 100 and BSCI. Certification availability for a specific order still depends on the fabric and dye route, so tell us which standard your market requires and we will confirm in writing what we can supply for that order.

EU Packaging Rules (PPWR): A Hijab Brand's Checklist

Since 12 August 2026, the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — applies to packaging placed on the European market, including the polybag, sleeve and carton a hijab ships in. Packaging is now a regulated component of the product rather than a shipping detail. The immediate obligations are documentation-led: substance limits and technical files. The design, labelling and recycled-content deadlines fall between 2027 and 2030. This guide sets out what applies today, what is staged, and the data your factory needs to hand over.

What Applies Right Now, and Two Things That Do Not

The PPWR entered into force on 11 February 2025 and replaced the 1994 Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (94/62/EC) when it began to apply on 12 August 2026. As a regulation rather than a directive, it applies identically across member states.

Two obligations began on that date. Article 5(4) caps substances: the combined concentration of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium in packaging, or any component of it, must not exceed 100 mg/kg — per component, not per parcel. Article 5 also requires compliance to be demonstrable through Annex VII technical documentation, so somebody in the chain, usually the importer, must hold test data or supplier declarations for each component.

Two widely repeated claims are wrong. The PFAS limits that took effect in August 2026 cover food-contact packaging only, so they do not apply to a hijab polybag or carton — though the Article 5(1) duty to minimise substances of concern, and the heavy-metal ceiling, do. And the maximum empty space ratio does not apply yet: Article 24(4) applies from 12 February 2028 and the general maximum under Article 24(1) from 1 January 2030. If you have been told your parcel fill is already non-compliant, check the article before re-tooling.

The Packaging Around a Hijab, Component by Component

A finished private-label hijab usually involves four packaging components. Each carries its own obligations, and the weakest one tends to set the recyclability outcome for the pack.

Component	Typical material	Applies from 12 Aug 2026	Staged deadline
Inner polybag or sleeve	LDPE film, sometimes with additives or carbon-black pigment	Article 5(4) heavy-metal ceiling; Annex VII documentation	Grades A–C by 1 Jan 2030; recycled content in plastic parts from 1 Jan 2030
Woven label, care label, hang tag	Polyester satin or printed paper, with a plastic barb, string or adhesive	Article 5(4); composition and care content under separate labelling law	Harmonised material labelling from 12 Aug 2028
Retail carton or rigid box	Coated board, sometimes with a plastic window or lamination	Article 5(4); Annex VII documentation	Grades A–C by 1 Jan 2030; grades A or B only by 1 Jan 2038
E-commerce mailer and parcel fill	Plastic mailer, paper void fill, air cushions	Article 5(4); Annex VII documentation	Article 24(4) requirements from 12 Feb 2028; Article 24(1) ratio from 1 Jan 2030

The Compliance Timeline

Date	Requirement	Reference
12 Aug 2026	Substance requirements, including the 100 mg/kg heavy-metal ceiling; Annex VII technical documentation	Articles 5, Annex VII
12 Feb 2027	Packaging in an EPR scheme identifiable by a symbol in a QR code	Article 12(9)
12 Feb 2028	Article 24(4) empty-space requirements; compostable packaging rules; calculation rules for the general ratio	Articles 24, 9
12 Aug 2028	Harmonised packaging label including material composition	Article 12
1 Jan 2030	Recyclability within grades A–C; packaging minimisation; maximum empty space ratio; recycled content in plastic parts; restrictions on listed formats	Articles 6, 10, 24(1), 7, 25

One caveat: the delegated acts defining the design-for-recycling criteria are only due by 1 January 2028, so the grade a given hijab carton will achieve in 2030 is an expectation rather than a settled fact.

The Polybag Is the Component That Needs a Decision

For most hijab ranges the inner polybag is the item that will require genuine change: it is usually plastic, often opaque, and typically bought on price with no material specification attached.

Three things drive its recyclability. Construction: a PE bag with a PE closure and no laminate is straightforward, while a laminated paper header or mixed-material adhesive strip is not. Pigment: heavy carbon-black or metallic inks are difficult for the near-infrared sorting equipment used in European recycling facilities to identify. Claims: "biodegradable" or "oxo-degradable" wording does not make a bag recyclable, because recyclability is assessed against material design criteria rather than marketing language.

From 1 January 2030 plastic parts of packaging must also contain a minimum share of recycled content, set by category and rising again in 2040. If you intend to keep a plastic polybag, ask film suppliers what recycled-content grades they can hold consistently — recycled-content film varies in colour and clarity in ways that change how a light hijab shade reads inside the bag.

If a range will move to paper, glassine or a printed band, the cheapest moment is while artwork is being revised anyway, not in 2029.

Who Is Legally Responsible When the Mill Is in China

This is the question buyers ask most often, and the answer is usually not the one they expect.

The PPWR places obligations on economic operators: manufacturers, importers, distributors and, in defined circumstances, online marketplaces. When a mill outside the EU produces packaged hijabs for a European brand, the operator placing that packaging on the EU market is normally the EU importer or the EU-established brand. That party is the producer for extended producer responsibility: it registers, reports packaging volumes and pays the EPR fees. Non-EU sellers shipping directly to EU consumers must additionally appoint an authorised representative inside the EU.

Two practical points follow. The mill cannot register on your behalf — we hold no EU EPR registration and cannot file under a brand's name. But the data has to come from the factory. EPR reporting runs on packaging weights broken down by material and component: grams of film per piece, grams of board per carton, plus the tag, attachment and thread. A factory that can only quote a total packing weight leaves your declaration as an estimate.

Factory Perspective

Three observations from our own order desk.

Most packaging questions arrive after the packaging is printed. The components that are genuinely hard to change are the ones carrying artwork and tooling — a rigid box with a die-cut window, a sleeve with a laminated finish. Re-specifying an inner polybag is comparatively cheap, which is why we now raise packaging material and component weights at the sampling stage rather than at packing.

The bottleneck is data consistency, not material availability. Recyclable film and uncoated board exist and can be sourced. What is harder is one order producing a single coherent set of numbers for the label, the hang tag, the polybag and the carton so the brand can file once. Because labels, tags, sleeves and boxes are finished in-house on the same order, those weights come from one production record instead of four suppliers' invoices.

Some of it is genuinely not settled. The design-for-recycling criteria that will decide the 2030 outcome are still to be adopted by delegated act, and anyone who tells you today exactly which grade your hijab carton will achieve is guessing.

What Buyers Should Confirm Before Ordering

A component-level packaging list with material and weight per piece — polybag, label, tag, attachment, carton and void fill — rather than a single total packing weight.
Heavy-metal test data or a supplier declaration for each packaging component against the Article 5(4) ceiling of 100 mg/kg, traceable to the batch or supplier.
Which components are mono-material, and whether any attachment such as a barb, string, adhesive strip or window film can be separated by the customer before disposal.
Whether any pigment, ink or additive could interfere with automated sorting at a European recycling facility.
Which entity will be the producer of record for EPR in each market you sell into, whether it can file from the data the factory supplies, and where the 2028 labelling panel will sit on the artwork.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the PPWR apply to hijab packaging? Yes, if the packaging is placed on the EU market. Packaging means material used to contain, protect, handle or present goods, from the inner polybag to the transport carton, and textile products are not excluded. Packaging used only for goods exported outside the EU is outside scope, though you should be able to demonstrate that.

Does the PFAS restriction apply to my hijab polybag? Not the PFAS limits themselves, because those cover food-contact packaging only. The separate Article 5(1) duty to minimise substances of concern applies to all packaging, and the Article 5(4) heavy-metal ceiling applies to every component.

Who is the producer under the PPWR, the brand or the factory? Normally the EU importer or EU-established brand placing the packaging on the market; that party registers, reports and pays EPR fees. A mill outside the EU supplies the data that makes the filing possible but cannot register on the brand's behalf.

When does hijab packaging have to be recyclable? All packaging must be recyclable by 1 January 2030, and from that date must fall within performance grades A, B or C under Annex II. From 1 January 2038 only grades A or B may be supplied.

Do we need to change our artwork now? Not for the harmonised material label, which applies from 12 August 2028, nor for the general empty space ratio from 1 January 2030. If you are reprinting artwork anyway, leaving a clear panel for the 2028 label costs less than re-tooling later.

Planning This Into Your Next Order

Related guides pair with this one: the private label packaging and labelling checklist (hijabsourcing.com/blog/hijab-packaging-labels-retail-checklist), the EU Digital Product Passport guide for the parallel product-data duty (hijabsourcing.com/blog/eu-digital-product-passport-textiles-hijab-brands), and the sustainability guide on verifying fibre claims rather than assuming them (hijabsourcing.com/blog/sustainable-hijab-fabric-certifications-buyers-guide). Minimums, sampling and lead times are covered here (hijabsourcing.com/blog/hijab-private-label-moq-sampling-lead-time), and the Ramadan and Eid ordering calendar here (hijabsourcing.com/blog/ramadan-2027-hijab-supply-planning-factory-timeline).

Send your market, packaging format and target quantity to susin@wennuanfactory.com and we will come back with a component-level packaging specification and the weights you can file against.

References

European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment. "New EU packaging rules start to apply, including restrictions on PFAS in food-contact packaging." Published 11 August 2026. environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-packaging-enter-application-2026-08-11_en. Accessed 21 September 2026.

European Commission. "Packaging and packaging waste — Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation." environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/packaging-waste/packaging-packaging-waste-regulation_en. Accessed 21 September 2026.

Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of the European Parliament and of the Council on packaging and packaging waste, replacing Directive 94/62/EC. EUR-Lex, OJ L, 2025/40. eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202500040. Accessed 21 September 2026.

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation Begins to Apply August 12, 2026." Product Stewardship Blog, 12 August 2026. lawbc.com. Accessed 21 September 2026.

Compliance Gate. "EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) Timeline: 2026 to 2040." Published 27 May 2026. compliancegate.com/ppwr-timeline-and-dates/. Accessed 21 September 2026.