Corrugated boxes shipped to Colorado
Colorado's food manufacturing, 26,569 jobs in 2025, slightly outnumbers its warehousing, 24,541. Adams County, north-east of Denver, held 12,162 of those warehousing jobs, about half the state total.
Who orders boxes in Colorado
Food and beverage makers buy cases; Denver-area distribution buildings buy stock RSCs and mailers; pharmaceutical manufacturing, 4,960 jobs, adds plain shipping cases.
Delivery and freight
Colorado is a long way from many box plants, so freight weighs more in the price. Send your ZIP; the Denver page lists the busiest warehouse ZIPs.
Boxes delivered in Colorado: ask for a price
Add the Colorado 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 Colorado
Altitude does not change how corrugated performs, but dry air does: Denver's low humidity means board is stiff and holds its rated strength well, which is good for stacking but can make flaps crack in cold months. Many Colorado food and beverage brands also sell nationally online, so a single buyer may need palletized cases for retail and a separate run of single-parcel mailers for e-commerce.
Pueblo, Greeley and Grand Junction have their own processors: meat in Greeley, steel in Pueblo, fruit and wine on the Western Slope near Palisade. Mountain passes and winter closures can slow freight, so allow extra time when the delivery crosses the Divide.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
- Warehousing and storage: Stock RSC ranges, mailers and large cartons replaced by the pallet
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.