Corrugated boxes shipped to Michigan
Michigan is the auto parts state. Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employed 111,465 people here in 2025, more than twice any other state and seven and a half times the national share of jobs. Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties alone counted over 58,000.
Who orders boxes in Michigan
Parts plants ship dense, heavy cartons and loose parts in bulk boxes, and service parts go out in small RSCs to dealers. Plastics product manufacturing adds 32,916 jobs, and fruit and vegetable processing on the west side of the state adds produce and food cases.
Delivery and freight
Detroit and Grand Rapids each have their own page. Michigan buyers often order several heavy sizes at once; list each one and its count in the notes, and give the ZIP of each plant.
Boxes delivered in Michigan: ask for a price
Add the Michigan 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 Michigan
Returnable plastic dunnage is common in Michigan's supply chains, but corrugated still carries a great deal: expendable packaging for export, service parts, aftermarket goods and lower-volume components that do not justify a returnable program. For those, a bulk box with corrugated partitions or a layer pad between tiers is the usual build. Tell us the part, its weight, how many per box and whether parts must not touch; that decides the board and the inserts.
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
- Plastics product manufacturing: Large light boxes and pallet-size bins for molded parts
- Refrigerated warehousing: Cases that keep their strength in coolers and freezers
- Fruit and vegetable preserving: Seasonal cartons for canned, frozen and packed produce
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.