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Catalogue
Everything on the floor, graded before it is offered.
Eight product families, twenty-two footprints and a stock list that turns over weekly. If a page does not show what you need, ask anyway — the best material often sells before it is ever written up.
- Product families
- 8
- Footprints stocked
- 22
- Minimum order
- One pallet
Check availability
Give us a size, a grade and a quantity. You will get real counts from this week's floor, not a catalogue page.
How to read this catalogue
Two questions decide almost every order.
What does the box have to survive, and who sees it? Those two answers narrow twenty-two footprints and five grades down to about three options in most cases.
Survival is structural: weight, stack height, whether it gets rained on between buildings, whether a forklift will kiss the corners. That determines wall count and grade floor. Visibility is cosmetic: a box going to a customer, a photograph or a retail floor needs 1A or 2A; a box that never leaves your building can be 3A and save you 30%.
Almost every expensive mistake in used packaging is buying for visibility when only survival mattered. Our buyers will actively talk you down a grade if the application allows it.
- Core stock
Used gaylord boxes
The core of the business. 4-wall and 5-wall bulk boxes in every standard footprint, graded 1A–5A.
From $6.25 / box
Open - Free-flow
Octabins & round bins
Eight-sided triple-wall bins for free-flowing resin, powder and granulate that bridges in a square corner.
From $9.50 / bin
Open - By the bundle
Used corrugated cartons
Single and double wall shipping boxes by the bundle, pallet or bale. Sorted by size when volume allows.
From $0.42 / carton
Open - When needed
New boxes & gaylords
Virgin and high-recycled-content board for the specs that genuinely require it — food contact, export, printed.
Sourced to order
Open - Reconditioned
Bulk bags (FIBC)
Reconditioned and new super sacks with documented wash and test history, spout or duffel top.
From $11 / bag
Open - A & B grade
Pallets & skids
GMA hardwood, block, plastic and one-way pallets, graded A and B and repaired in house.
From $6 / pallet
Open - Everything else
Liners, lids & accessories
Poly and foil liners, telescoping caps, corner board, banding, dunnage bags, clips and labels.
Case quantities
Open - Second life
Upcycled goods
Pads, dividers, trays, display bases and prototype furniture cut from boxes that could not run again whole.
From 50 pieces
Open
At a glance
What each family is actually for.
A rough decision table. It is not a substitute for a conversation, but it settles most of the obvious cases.
| If you need to… | Start with | Typical grade | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold 1,500–2,500 lb of dense material on a pallet | 5-wall gaylord | 2A – 3A | Payload rating, not cube, is the binding limit |
| Handle free-flowing pellets or powder | Octabin | 2A – 3A | Discharge method — get the base spec right first |
| Ship bulky, light product | 5-wall 48 × 40 × 48 | 3A | Trailer height and how high it will stack loaded |
| Move product between two of your own buildings | 4-wall gaylord | 3A – 4A | Nothing. This is the cheapest sensible answer |
| Pack customer-facing shipments | Used corrugated cartons | 1A – 2A | Print bleed-through and old label residue |
| Fill and discharge by forklift and spout | Bulk bag (FIBC) | Reconditioned | Wash certificate and safe working load ratio |
| Protect, separate or stack within a box | Pads, dividers, trays | Fabricated | Board direction — flute must run the right way |
| Meet a food-contact or export spec without a liner | New box | New | Whether a liner would let you use used stock instead |
Buying process
How we quote, and what we need from you.
Every order runs the same way whether it is one pallet or thirty truckloads. There is no account setup, no catalogue code and no minimum contract.
What makes a request quotable in one reply
- A size, or a description of the material and roughly what it weighs
- A quantity — units, pallets or truckloads, approximate is fine
- A destination ZIP code, because freight is lane-specific
- Whether you can re-erect flattened boxes on site
- Whether anyone outside your building sees the box
- Any date you are working to, including 'no rush'
Same day
A buyer walks the floor
Physical bands checked against your requirement. If the footprint is short this week, you are told that rather than sold a substitute.
Same or next day
Written quote
Counts, grade, unit price, delivered freight and photographs of the specific lot. Valid seven days, subject to stock.
On approval
Banded and staged
Pulled, banded in lots you specify, wrapped and staged. Cancellation is free up to this point.
2 – 5 days
Load and dispatch
Load-checked and photographed at the door. Our trucks on core lanes, brokered truckload or LTL elsewhere.
After use
We buy it back
At end of life the containers have a residual value rather than a disposal cost. Same photographs, same process, in reverse.
Stock reality
What is genuinely available, and when.
Used inventory is a by-product of other people's production, so availability moves through the year in a pattern that is worth planning around.
| Family | Best months | Tightest months | Lead time | Standing orders? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-wall 48 × 40 × 36 | Oct – Dec | Jan – Feb | 2 – 5 days | Strongly recommended |
| 4-wall 48 × 40 × 36 | Year round | Jan | 2 – 5 days | Useful above 200/month |
| Tall boxes (42 – 48 in) | Sep – Nov | Mar – May | 3 – 7 days | Recommended |
| Shallow boxes (24 – 30 in) | Year round | — | 3 – 7 days | Rarely needed |
| Half gaylords | Year round | — | 3 – 7 days | Rarely needed |
| Octabins | Tied to resin runs | Unpredictable | 1 – 3 weeks | Essential |
| Used cartons, single size | Nov – Jan | Jun – Aug | Week to week | First-refusal list |
| Pallets | Year round | Harvest weeks | 2 – 5 days | Useful |
| Bulk bags | Variable | Variable | 1 – 2 weeks | Recommended |
| Fabricated parts | Made to order | — | 3 – 14 days | Scheduled runs |
Terms in plain English
The vocabulary on these pages.
- Grade (1A – 5A)
- A description of condition, not a manufacturer's specification. Our ladder is published with reject criteria for each rung.
- Wall
- Shorthand for construction — 4-wall, 5-wall, triple wall. Correlates with strength but guarantees nothing, which is why we quote payload.
- Footprint
- The base dimensions. Almost always 48 × 40 in North America, because that is the GMA pallet.
- Flattened
- Knocked down and banded for transport. Roughly triples what fits on a trailer.
- Payload
- The weight we will stand behind for a used box in its current condition — already derated below the original rating.
- Cube
- Internal volume in cubic feet. Practical fill is 85–92% of it, not 100%.
- Band
- A strapped lot of flattened boxes, usually 20–25, which is also our minimum order.
- Residual
- What we will pay to buy the container back when you have finished with it.
Tell us the job, not the part number.
Describe what goes in the box, how heavy it is and where it travels. We will come back with the two or three options that actually fit — and the price of each.