Corrugated boxes shipped to Alabama
Alabama assembles cars at six times the national share of jobs: 22,311 people in motor vehicle manufacturing in 2025, with 29,218 more in parts. Meat and poultry processing added 24,973, and Marshall County in the north counted 7,387 of those.
Who orders boxes in Alabama
Parts suppliers and assembly plants want heavy single and double wall and bulk boxes for loose parts. Poultry processors want heavy cases built for cold storage. Jefferson County (Birmingham) and Mobile County lead warehousing, and Mobile's port adds export packing.
Delivery and freight
Alabama orders often go to plants outside the cities. We quote freight to the plant's ZIP.
Boxes delivered in Alabama: ask for a price
Add the Alabama ZIP the boxes go to, the inside size, grade and count. Freight is part of the quote.
- Inside size
- length x width x depth, in inches
- Style
- RSC, full overlap, telescope, die-cut or bulk
- Wall and grade
- read it off the stamp on your current box
- Count
- boxes per order, and how often you reorder
- Packed weight
- box plus contents
- ZIP
- where the boxes are delivered
After you send it
- We reply by email, usually with questions first if anything is unclear
- You confirm the specification, and a sample or drawing if it is a new design
- We send the price, the delivery window and the count tolerance
- On approval the order is scheduled and shipped to your dock
Worth knowing in Alabama
Assembly plants around Montgomery, Lincoln, Vance and Huntsville pull in parts from hundreds of suppliers across the state, and those suppliers have strict packaging specifications from their customers. Poultry processors in Cullman and DeKalb counties have their own: cases that survive blast freezing and long cold storage. We quote both kinds to the specification sheet the buyer works from.
Interstates 65 and 20 cross at Birmingham, and the Port of Mobile on the Gulf handles containers, so boxes for export packing are often delivered toward the coast. Huntsville in the north adds aerospace and defence suppliers with specified, documented packaging, and vehicle assembly plants near Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Lincoln draw in parts suppliers.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Motor vehicle manufacturing: Service-part RSCs and heavy boxes between plants
- Motor vehicle parts manufacturing: Dense-part cartons, partitions and bulk boxes
- Meat and poultry processing: Heavy double wall cases for chilled and frozen product
- Plastics product manufacturing: Large light boxes and pallet-size bins for molded parts
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.