Box supply for Grand Rapids shippers
Grand Rapids makes parts and food. Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employed 12,664 people in 2025, six times the national share, plastics products 6,946 and food manufacturing 13,424.
What Grand Rapids buyers order
Parts suppliers want heavy cartons; plastics molders want large light boxes; dairy (1,450 jobs) and meat processing (3,000) want cases.
Where the warehouses are
Warehousing is small, 3,125 jobs, nearly all in Kent County. The busiest ZIPs are 49512, 49544 and 49548 in Grand Rapids and 49509 in Wyoming.
Boxes for Grand Rapids: 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 Grand Rapids
Office furniture is the industry most associated with Grand Rapids, and furniture makers need large cartons, corner protectors and corrugated pads. Parts suppliers in the region serve the auto industry, and food processors along the lakeshore pack fruit, vegetables and dairy. The mix means one buyer may need a big telescope carton and another a small case.
Office furniture makers have long been based in and around Grand Rapids, and their shipping cartons are large, flat and well padded.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 5 counties of the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood metro area: Barry, Ionia, Kent, Montcalm and Ottawa, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 49512 Grand Rapids, 49544 Grand Rapids, 49548 Grand Rapids, 49509 Wyoming and 49503 Grand Rapids, and the most warehousing jobs are in Kent and Ottawa counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Motor vehicle parts manufacturing: Dense-part cartons, partitions and bulk boxes
- Plastics product manufacturing: Large light boxes and pallet-size bins for molded parts
- Dairy product manufacturing: Cheese, butter and ice cream cases for cold rooms
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
- Grocery and related product wholesale: Mixed cases and repack cartons for store deliveries
- Meat and poultry processing: Heavy double wall cases for chilled and frozen product
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.