Corrugated boxes shipped to Minnesota
Minnesota is a food processing state: 47,829 food manufacturing jobs in 2025, including 17,525 in meat and poultry and 5,085 in dairy. It also had 105 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space. Plastics products added 14,511 jobs.
Who orders boxes in Minnesota
Food and meat plants want cases sized for their products and their cold rooms. Plastics molders want large light boxes. Warehousing is smaller here than in some neighbouring states, 17,921 jobs, led by Hennepin and Anoka counties.
Delivery and freight
Twin Cities ZIPs are on the Minneapolis-St. Paul page. Outstate plants get freight quoted to their own ZIP.
Boxes delivered in Minnesota: ask for a price
Add the Minnesota 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 Minnesota
Long, cold winters mean board arrives cold and is often erected in heated rooms the same day. Cold board is brittle; give bundles a few hours indoors before running them through machines or folding them by hand, or flaps may crack along the scores. Medical device makers around the Twin Cities, a big industry here, ask for clean, consistent cartons and often for exact repeat specifications.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Meat and poultry processing: Heavy double wall cases for chilled and frozen product
- Dairy product manufacturing: Cheese, butter and ice cream cases for cold rooms
- Fruit and vegetable preserving: Seasonal cartons for canned, frozen and packed produce
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
- Plastics product manufacturing: Large light boxes and pallet-size bins for molded parts
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.