About Minneapolis Gaylords

We started from one question the metro's climate forces on every bulk box: will this gaylord still hold after a winter on the dock? A box here moves between a heated plant, an unheated dock or trailer and, for months, air below freezing. Corrugated loses strength to humidity, condensation and time under load. So we rate boxes by stack height, not just by wall count.

What we do

• Buy. Used and new gaylords are described by wall count, bottom style, footprint and grade, and each grade by how hard it can work in its conditions.
• Sell. Single-trip empties from plants are worth moving when they are dry, intact and of known history.
• Recycle. Wet, torn or crushed boxes are OCC, and a request can ask about pickup of worn-out ones.
• Tell you the stack. Stack Check gives a conservative height for your walls, grade, load, place and time.

How the site works

1. You send one request, through the form on any request page, covering buying, selling or recycling.
2. The details that matter on a request are the wall count, the bottom, the footprint, the grade and where the boxes will sit.
3. Requests like this usually turn on one question, such as the weight of a full box or how long a stack will stand.

That is the whole process. There is one form, kept in 1DB, the platform that runs this site's forms; the site draws it and 1DB records the request.

What we do not do

• We do not publish prices, minimum quantities, turnaround times or who pays freight on the site; those depend on the request.
• We do not list a street address, a yard or a phone number. Contact is the form and info@minneapolisgaylords.com.
• We do not offer hazmat bulk boxes. A used gaylord is not UN-rated.
• We do not present stack heights as load ratings. They are conservative estimates; the box maker's rating and your own safety rules come first.
• We do not name customers or show reviews. Employers on the area pages are sourced facts about what an area's industry looks like.

Who it is for

Food and ingredient plants, plastics molders, medical device and electronics makers, 3PLs along I-494 and I-35, and growers on the metro's southern and western edge. From Anoka to Dakota and Wright to Washington, plus the Wisconsin side of the St. Croix, that is a lot of docks. The industries and areas pages describe them.

The desk writes the way a packaging engineer writes a stacking note: short sentences, the number first, the condition second. If a page says two high, it says in what conditions, and where the number comes from. Sources and review dates are at the foot of each page.

Questions, answered