Corrugated boxes shipped to Washington
Washington's boxes follow its crops and its ports. Fruit and vegetable preserving employed 10,988 people in 2025, 2.8 times the national share, and the state had 301 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space, the third most in the country.
Who orders boxes in Washington
Orchards and packers in central Washington buy produce cartons by the season; frozen fruit and vegetable plants buy cases for cold storage; and exporters near the Seattle and Tacoma terminals buy triple wall. Pierce, King and Spokane counties led warehousing, with 36,691 jobs statewide.
Delivery and freight
The Seattle-Tacoma page covers the port metro. For orchard and packing shed deliveries east of the Cascades, send the ZIP and season.
Boxes delivered in Washington: ask for a price
Add the Washington 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 Washington
Apple and cherry packers in Wenatchee and Yakima work to tight seasons and require cartons that hold up in controlled-atmosphere storage. Many specify their own carton by industry standard footprint. On the west side, exporters loading at Tacoma and Seattle send hay, frozen food, machinery and recycled goods to Asia in containers, and heavy export packing in triple wall is a regular request.
Spokane and the Tri-Cities add food processing, potatoes especially, along with wine and hops around Yakima.
Apple packing houses in Wenatchee and Yakima ship fruit in corrugated trays and cartons every season.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Fruit and vegetable preserving: Seasonal cartons for canned, frozen and packed produce
- Grocery and related product wholesale: Mixed cases and repack cartons for store deliveries
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.