Box supply for Minneapolis-St. Paul shippers
The Twin Cities' box buyers are mostly makers: food manufacturing employed 14,543 people in 2025 and chemical manufacturing 9,984. Warehousing is modest at 6,599 jobs, led by Hennepin County.
What Minneapolis-St. Paul buyers order
Food plants want cases sized to their products; chemical plants want double wall. Warehouses buy stock cartons.
Where the warehouses are
Saint Paul's 55121 has the most warehousing establishments, then 55113, two Minneapolis ZIPs and Shakopee.
Boxes for Minneapolis-St. Paul: 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 Minneapolis-St. Paul
The Twin Cities are home to large medical device, food and retail companies, and their packaging standards trickle down to suppliers. Medical device cartons must be clean and consistent; food plants need cases for coolers; retailers' suppliers follow routing guides. Long, cold winters mean board must be stored and erected in heated areas to avoid cracking.
Retailers headquartered here run large distribution operations nearby, and printing and publishing firms ship catalogues and books.
The Twin Cities sit on I-94 and I-35, the main truck routes to Chicago and north to the port of Duluth on Lake Superior.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 15 counties of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area, among them Anoka, Carver, Chisago and Dakota, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 55121 Saint Paul, 55113 Saint Paul, 55428 Minneapolis, 55418 Minneapolis and 55379 Shakopee, and the most warehousing jobs are in Hennepin, Anoka and Washington counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
- 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.