Box supply for Philadelphia shippers
Philadelphia's box buyers are pharmaceutical and chemical plants and the warehouses across the river. Pharmaceutical manufacturing employed 15,593 people in 2025, 2.3 times the national share; Montgomery County alone had 11,878.
What Philadelphia buyers order
Pharmaceutical makers want plain, consistent cases. Chemical plants (28,734 jobs) want double wall and bulk boxes. Burlington and Gloucester county warehouses in New Jersey want stock cartons by the pallet.
Where the warehouses are
Camden (08102) has the most warehousing establishments, then New Castle, Delaware, Swedesboro, Burlington and Bristol. The port's Packer Avenue terminal adds export packing.
Boxes for Philadelphia: 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 Philadelphia
Pharmaceutical and biotech firms in the western suburbs and South Jersey want exact repeat cases. Food companies in the city, pretzel and snack makers, bakeries and meat processors, buy cases in volume. The port handles fruit, cocoa and meat imports, so refrigerated warehouses along the Delaware River use cases that survive the cold.
The metro reaches into New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland as well as Pennsylvania, so a delivery is priced to its ZIP whichever state it falls in.
The Packer Avenue terminal on the Delaware handles containers, much of them fruit and other chilled cargo arriving by sea from South America.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 11 counties of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area, among them Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Bucks, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 08102 Camden, 19720 New Castle, 08085 Swedesboro, 08016 Burlington and 19007 Bristol, and the most warehousing jobs are in Burlington, Gloucester and Philadelphia counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: Plain, consistent shipping cases on a fixed specification
- 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.