Box supply for Milwaukee shippers
Milwaukee's biggest box user is food: 11,405 food manufacturing jobs in 2025, 1.2 times the national share. Warehousing employed 8,262, split between Milwaukee and Waukesha counties.
What Milwaukee buyers order
Food and beverage plants want cases sized to their lines. Manufacturers want heavy and custom boxes.
Where the warehouses are
North-side ZIPs 53209 and 53218 have the most warehousing establishments, then Menomonee Falls, 53207 and Waukesha.
Boxes for Milwaukee: 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 Milwaukee
Milwaukee builds engines, motorcycles, power equipment and machinery, and brews beer, and each needs different boxes: heavy double wall and bulk boxes for metal parts, cases with partitions for bottles and cans. Lake Michigan brings damp air in summer, while winters are cold and dry; plan storage for both. Breweries and distillers range from century-old names to small craft operations in Walker’s Point and the Third Ward.
Medical imaging, power controls and industrial automation equipment are made here and shipped in heavy, carefully padded cartons and crates.
Interstate 94 links Milwaukee to Chicago in about ninety minutes, and many distribution buildings line the corridor between them around Kenosha.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 4 counties of the Milwaukee-Waukesha metro area: Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 53209 Milwaukee, 53218 Milwaukee, 53051 Menomonee Falls, 53207 Milwaukee and 53186 Waukesha, and the most warehousing jobs are in Milwaukee, Waukesha and Washington counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
- 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.