Box supply for Detroit shippers
Detroit makes vehicles and the parts that go in them. Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employed 62,892 people in the metro in 2025, 9.4 times the national share, and vehicle assembly 24,923.
What Detroit buyers order
Parts plants buy heavy cartons, partitioned boxes and bulk boxes for loose parts moving to assembly. Heavy components ship in double and triple wall. Service parts go out in small RSCs.
Where the warehouses are
Livonia (48150) has the most warehousing establishments, then Romulus near the airport, Taylor, Belleville and Trenton. Wayne County held 22,255 of the metro's 30,083 warehousing jobs.
Boxes for Detroit: ask for a price
Give the delivery ZIP, each inside size with its grade and count, and any receiving window or dock limit.
- 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 Detroit
Assembly and powertrain plants run on tight schedules, and their suppliers' packaging must meet the automaker's specifications for size, labelling and handling. Many components ship in corrugated bulk boxes with partitions or layer pads, especially for export or low-volume service parts. Send the customer packaging spec with your request, and give part weights and counts per box.
Pharmaceutical and chemical plants downriver and in Wyandotte add to the mix, and Detroit's growing food scene supplies regional grocers with sauces, baked goods and specialty items in cases.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 6 counties of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn metro area: Wayne, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland and St. Clair, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 48150 Livonia, 48174 Romulus, 48180 Taylor, 48111 Belleville and 48183 Trenton, and the most warehousing jobs are in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
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
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.