Corrugated boxes shipped to Indiana
Indiana ranks high in three things that use boxes: motor vehicle parts (52,146 jobs in 2025, third in the country and 4.8 times the national share), pharmaceuticals (23,709), and warehousing (67,506). Boone and Hendricks counties, either side of Indianapolis, led the warehousing count.
Who orders boxes in Indiana
Parts plants want heavy single and double wall and bulk boxes. Pharmaceutical makers in Indianapolis want plain, exact shipping cases. The distribution parks around Plainfield and Whitestown want stock RSC ranges replaced by the pallet. Plastics products, 33,122 jobs, add large light boxes.
Delivery and freight
Indianapolis sits where several interstates meet, and many national distribution centres are here for that reason. The Indianapolis page lists its busiest warehouse ZIPs.
Boxes delivered in Indiana: ask for a price
Add the Indiana 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 Indiana
Pharmaceutical shippers have the strictest requests we see. Their cases are often specified down to the flute, the liner weight and the print position of a lot code, and the box must not change between orders without notice. If your carton is part of a validated process, send the drawing and the current certificate, and say so in the notes; we quote to that specification and flag anything that would differ.
The state's motto is the Crossroads of America, and its ports at Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan and at Jeffersonville and Mount Vernon on the Ohio River add barge and ship freight.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Motor vehicle parts manufacturing: Dense-part cartons, partitions and bulk boxes
- Motor vehicle manufacturing: Service-part RSCs and heavy boxes between plants
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: Plain, consistent shipping cases on a fixed specification
- Plastics product manufacturing: Large light boxes and pallet-size bins for molded parts
- Chemical manufacturing: Double wall and bulk boxes for drums, jugs and bags
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.