Corrugated boxes shipped to North Carolina
North Carolina's box buyers are unusually varied. Pharmaceutical manufacturing employed 26,998 people in 2025, third among the states and 2.4 times the national share of jobs. Meat and poultry processing added 35,715, and chemical manufacturing 47,758.
Who orders boxes in North Carolina
Plain pharmaceutical shipping cases, heavy meat cases bound for cold storage, plastics (27,700 jobs) and furniture-industry cartons, and stock RSCs for Charlotte's distribution buildings all come from the same state. Mecklenburg County led warehousing with 12,290 jobs, then Wake and Guilford.
Delivery and freight
North Carolina orders often go to rural plants as well as metro warehouses; the ZIP tells us which. Charlotte has its own page.
Boxes delivered in North Carolina: ask for a price
Add the North Carolina 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 North Carolina
Furniture, textiles and tobacco were long the state's big box users, and some of that remains in the Piedmont around High Point and Hickory, where large, light cartons for upholstered goods and case goods are still made. Today the Triangle's biotech labs and plants, the hog and poultry processors of the east, and Charlotte's banks of distribution space have joined them. Each needs something different, and a single supplier quoting all three is common.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: Plain, consistent shipping cases on a fixed specification
- Meat and poultry processing: Heavy double wall cases for chilled and frozen product
- Chemical manufacturing: Double wall and bulk boxes for drums, jugs and bags
- 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.