Box supply for Houston shippers
Houston ships chemicals and goes to sea. Chemical manufacturing employed 42,669 people in the metro in 2025, 2.2 times the national share, and Port Houston's public terminals handled 4,303,345 TEUs and 54,491,066 short tons of cargo, a record.
What Houston buyers order
Chemical and plastics shippers want heavy double wall, triple wall and pallet-size bulk boxes, often for export. Import warehouses near the Ship Channel want stock RSCs to repack consumer goods.
Where the warehouses are
La Porte (77571) has the most warehousing establishments, then north Houston, Baytown, the Ship Channel ZIP 77029 and Pasadena. Harris County held 23,802 of the metro's 33,785 warehousing jobs.
Boxes for Houston: 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 Houston
Chemical and plastics plants along the Ship Channel and in Baytown, Deer Park and Freeport ship resin, additives and packaged chemicals in bags, pails and jugs, and many of those go out in bulk boxes or double wall cartons on export pallets. Humidity is high most of the year, which weakens board; specify a heavier grade when boxes will sit for weeks in non-conditioned buildings or travel in ocean containers.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 10 counties of the Houston-The Woodlands metro area, among them Austin, Brazoria, Chambers and Fort Bend, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 77571 La Porte, 77032 Houston, 77523 Baytown, 77029 Houston and 77507 Pasadena, and the most warehousing jobs are in Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Chemical manufacturing: Double wall and bulk boxes for drums, jugs and bags
- Warehousing and storage: Stock RSC ranges, mailers and large cartons replaced by the pallet
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.