Acetate eyewear manufacturer & exporter · India
Rushabh Trading Company has been cutting, shaping and finishing acetate eyewear in Ahmedabad since 1985. Optical frames and sunglasses for brands, distributors and importers — produced under your label, to your specification.
Capabilities
Most enquiries land in one of these. If yours sits between them, describe it and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right factory for it.
You bring the design or the reference sample. We engineer it into a producible frame and manufacture it under your brand.
Read moreStart from our shapes and sheet library, then adapt colour, sizing and detailing until the model belongs to your range.
Read moreLogo printing, laser engraving and temple branding, finished with packaging built for your retail environment.
Read moreProduction planned around your shipping window, packed and documented for international dispatch.
Read moreClarish™ collection
Every model below is cut from cellulose acetate and carries the size marking printed on its temple. Colourways and sizing can be adapted for your programme.
RectangleTeal Horn / Navy · Cellulose Acetate
55 □ 19 – 145
Panto RoundCrystal Grey · Cellulose Acetate
50 □ 20 – 140
Soft SquareOlive / Crystal · Cellulose Acetate
51 □ 18 – 140
Cat-EyeCrystal Blue · Cellulose Acetate
54 □ 17 – 145
Material
Acetate is a plant-derived thermoplastic supplied as sheet. It holds colour through its full section rather than on the surface, which is why a laminated or graduated frame keeps its depth as it wears.
Colour runs through the sheet. A scratch on acetate does not expose a different colour underneath, unlike a painted or coated frame.
It can be adjusted. Acetate softens with heat, so an optician can fit the frame to the wearer instead of working around it.
It takes a deep polish. The finish is earned in the barrel and at the buff, not sprayed on at the end.
Manufacturing
A frame passes through every one of these stages. Skipping any of them shows up later — in the finish, in the fit, or in a hinge that works loose.
Acetate sheet is chosen for colour, pattern and section thickness before anything is cut.
Fronts and temples are machined from the sheet, holding the geometry the design depends on.
Edges are worked back by hand so the profile sits correctly against the face.
Temples, hinges and core wires are fitted, then the frame is aligned as a complete unit.
Multi-stage polishing brings the acetate to depth — the stage that separates a good frame from a cheap one.
Each frame is checked, cleaned and packed to the specification your market requires.
Private label
A private label programme is mostly a series of small decisions — where the logo sits, how the size marking reads, what the customer opens in store. We work through them with you before the first production run.
Who we supply
We are a manufacturing and wholesale business. Our customers are the people who put eyewear in front of the wearer.
Export
India has become a serious alternative for eyewear sourcing, but the experience varies enormously between suppliers. What follows is how we prefer to work.
If a design will not hold in acetate at the size you want, we tell you at the drawing stage rather than at the sample stage.
Nothing goes to production until you have approved a physical frame in the actual material.
You deal with the people who run the production, not a layer of intermediaries.
Export paperwork and packing prepared for the destination market from the outset.
Enquiries welcome from any market. We will confirm what we can supply, and what we cannot, before you commit.
FAQ
Where an answer depends on your specific programme, we say so rather than publishing a number that will not apply to your order.
It comes down to who owns the design. In OEM you supply the design and we build to it. In ODM you start from our existing shapes and we adapt them until the model is yours. In private label you take frames we already produce and apply your own branding and packaging. Private label is fastest and cheapest; OEM gives the most control and costs the most to develop.
Yes. Frames can carry your brand through pad printing, laser engraving and your own temple marking format, with cases, cloths and cartons produced to your artwork.
No. We supply on a business-to-business basis to brands, optical retailers, distributors, wholesalers and importers. We do not sell single pairs to individual wearers.
Yes, and at drawing stage rather than after sampling. A rim that holds at 48mm may not hold at 56mm. Raising that early costs a conversation; raising it late costs a season.
It stays yours. Designs, drawings, samples, artwork and trade marks supplied by a customer remain that customer’s property, and we do not reuse them for another buyer.
Our production is built around cellulose acetate — optical frames and sunglasses cut from sheet. If your programme calls for metal, combination or another construction, ask us directly and we will tell you plainly whether we can supply it or whether you are better served elsewhere.
Insights
Manufacturing
A stage-by-stage account of how a custom acetate frame is manufactured — design review, sheet selection, CNC cutting, assembly, polishing, branding and inspection — and where programmes usually slip.
9 min read
Export
Practical guidance for importers and brands sourcing eyewear from India — supplier types, standards and compliance, HS classification, sampling, payment terms and the mistakes that cost first-time buyers.
9 min read
Manufacturing models
The three eyewear manufacturing models compared on cost, speed, control and risk — with a practical way to decide which one your brand should be asking for.
8 min read
Start a conversation
Send your reference designs, target quantities and destination market. We will come back with the material options, sampling route and lead-time position for your programme.
