Corrugated boxes shipped to Missouri
Missouri has both ends of the state in the box business. Kansas City is a distribution hub, and the St. Louis area makes chemicals and vehicles: motor vehicle manufacturing employed 13,274 people in 2025, 2.5 times the national share, and chemical manufacturing 22,970.
Who orders boxes in Missouri
Food manufacturing, 45,268 jobs, is the largest box user by headcount, with meat, dairy and fruit and vegetable plants spread around the state. St. Charles County led warehousing with 5,782 jobs, then Cass County in the Kansas City metro. Missouri had 104 million cubic feet of refrigerated space.
Delivery and freight
Kansas City has its own page, which also lists Kansas-side ZIPs. Send any Missouri ZIP for a delivered quote.
Boxes delivered in Missouri: ask for a price
Add the Missouri 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 Missouri
Missouri sits at the centre of the country, and many national shippers have a building here because a truck can reach most of the US population in two days. Those buildings stock wide ranges of RSC sizes. Elsewhere, food plants in the Ozarks and around Springfield and Joplin ship meat, pet food and snacks in cases, and St. Louis manufacturers ask for heavier boxes for beverage equipment, chemicals and aerospace parts.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Motor vehicle manufacturing: Service-part RSCs and heavy boxes between plants
- Dairy product manufacturing: Cheese, butter and ice cream cases for cold rooms
- Meat and poultry processing: Heavy double wall cases for chilled and frozen product
- Fruit and vegetable preserving: Seasonal cartons for canned, frozen and packed produce
- 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.