Save Storage Space: Boxes Delivered Weekly
Some food distributors and manufacturers can save valuable warehouse space and reduce fixed overhead expenses by converting from buying boxes in bulk to weekly box deliveries, as our recent case study demonstrates.
Buying Bulk vs Prearranged Weekly Deliveries
This study comes from the help of one of Racer Boxes customers who recently switched to using our weekly box delivery service in order to cut costs and save on space.
The findings show that while buying boxes in bulk provides a bulk discount to the initial price, the increased cost of storing bulk orders of boxes can in some cases outweigh the savings. In this case study, the manufacturer’s dedicated inventory space for boxes added up to a monthly loss of $1,120 so at the end of the month he was coming out at a loss.
Weekly deliveries of his boxes were effectively a bigger discount than buying bulk box orders.
Contact Racer Boxes in Vancouver Canada
See if receiving weekly deliveries works for you, contact Racer Boxes – a Vancouver Boxes and Packaging Manufacturer at (604) 270 – 8205. Through a reduction in box inventory, you may even be able to convert your inventory square footage into revenue generating space.
Saving on Wholesale Boxes: China vs Vancouver Canada
We recently wrote a case study featuring Munching and Crunching, a seafood distributor in Vancouver Canada. In this case, their seafood products were packed and shipped in corrugated cardboard boxes made by a local box manufacturer. In an effort to lower the cost of their wholesale box orders, they decided to try out a chinese box manufacturer. But did they end up saving money and was there a better option?
Importing Boxes: Risk vs Benefits
In this case, the Chinese box manufacturer required 30% in advance before they would build their boxes and then full payment before shipment of the completed boxes. After shipping, the total savings worked out to a little under 2% on their seafood packing boxes expenses.
Expensive Lesson
The trouble for Munching and Crunching turned out two fold: (1) the logo was incorrectly printed: it read “Punching and Crunching.” And (2), the quality of the boxes was inferior: as soon as their stackable boxes were stacked 4 high, the bottom boxes would crumple and become unusable.
Better Way to Save on Vancouver Wholesale Boxes
In the end, Munching and Crunching discovered Racer Boxes — a local Vancouver Boxes and Packaging Manufacturer — and successfully reduced their costs without skimping on the box manufacturing and printing standards. Racer Boxes even created a print plate that can be repeatedly used on their future box orders.
Before ordering your boxes wholesale from China, check out your other local box and packaging manufacturer options.
Call Racer Boxes at (604) 270 – 8205 and ask for a quote.
Custom Boxes Vancouver
We are a local printing and box manufacturing company based in Vancouver, B.C. We are known for our exceptional customer service, on time delivery and dedication towards our customers. Our featured product is our standard stock cartons, which are high quality corrugated boxes manufactured with high-precision machinery at our factory in Vancouver. Although we specialize in manufacturing our standard corrugated boxes, we also offer additional services to meet the needs our valued customers. We offer the possibility to customize the shape and sizes of your boxes upon request*.
We also offer custom printing services, a great addition to the branding of your company — whatever it may be.
We have the privilege of supplying wholesale boxes to dozens of companies in the Lower Mainland. From stock cartons to custom display boxes, call Racer Boxes at 604-270-8205 or contact us online anytime for your affordable, high quality wholesale boxes!
*minimum quantities required
Keep Flowers Fresh with Cardboard Pot Holders
Our specially designed potted plants display holder is ideal for the potted plant. Our locally manufactured cardboard boxes in Vancouver are designed to keep your pots 
standing upright during transportation, thus minimizing soil spill and the inevitable plant decay. We carry various sizes of packing boxes for your flower needs, so give us a call or contact us online for an estimate.
Cardboard Floral Trays
At Racer Boxes, we also manufacture cardboard floral trays, an alternative to our potted plants display holder. Our cardboard floral trays are built to hold anything from potted plants to floral bouquets. They are ideal for any florist shop to send home with your costumers. For wholesale inquires, please contact us for an estimate on your order.
Don’t let a beautiful thing go bad; keep flowers fresh with packing boxes!
How to Order Your Boxes from our Richmond BC Plant
From stock cartons to custom display boxes, call Racer Boxes at 604-270-8205 or contact us online anytime for your affordable, high quality wholesale boxes!
Humanitarian Aid with Corrugated Boxes?
Earlier this month, we published an article on how our corrugated boxes were made in Vancouver, B.C. (see: “Corrugated Boxes: Local, Sustainable Vancouver Box Manufacturer”). Corrugated cardboard is the most common type of cardboard and it is known for its light-weight but extreme durability in stiffness and in strength. It is made up from three layers, including a wavy middle layer created during the manufacturing process. As such, corrugated cardboard is a material not only excellent for packing boxes or stacking boxes, but it is also ideal for insulation and even shelter.
Cardboard Insulation & Shelter
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is known for literally thinking outside the box. He is most famous for his innovative work with paper to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. His favourite material is in fact the recycled corrugated box, which he has used to build houses and churches, among various other projects around the world.
Shigeru Ban’s modern design as applied to humanitarian projects has inspired many to think about cardboard boxes in more than just one way. They have certainly provided as shelter for individuals in one way or another. In other instances, other creative individuals have repurposed the incredible material for ecological projects, like building a cardboard bicycle. The possibilities are endless; what else can you think about doing with a cardboard box?
How to Order Your Sustainable Boxes Wholesale
From stock cartons to custom display boxes, call Racer Boxes at 604-270-8205 or contact us online anytime for your affordable, high quality wholesale boxes!
How to Organize with Corrugated Cardboard
It’s easy to accumulate stuff. What’s worse is that when you actually need that stuff, it’s nowhere to be found. It’s time to get organized.
Tones of home renovation shows and do-it-yourself blogs will teach you how to be creative. They will also teach you how to spend lots of money on what’s essentially more stuff. Although massive home renovation and DIY projects can offer more options to show off your inner designer, sometimes less is more. Not to mention, we all tend to get sidetracked if it’ll take more than a few hours. When it comes to saving money and time, all you really need for simple organization of your space is a couple dozen cardboard boxes.
Standard Folding Boxes
Our standard folding boxes are great for storing out-of-season clothing to hide away in the cross-space. They are also great for keeping winter blankets and Christmas decorations out of sight in the summer. Our cardboard boxes are also great for day-to-day storage: Keep sports equipment or your party hosting extras out of the way.
Cardboard Boxes Made-in-Vancouver
When all is said and done, your now organized stuff in boxes is ready to go, anywhere! Our made-in-Vancouver cardboard boxes are all built durable to last as a reliable packing box for any move. Should you one-day need to pick up and move in a hurry, consider yourself already packed.
Of course you can recycle any old box, but Racer Boxes, a Vancouver Box Manufacturer offers undamaged and uniformed brown boxes to go with your new tidy theme.
Custom Printing
For optimum organization, try our custom printing services. We can print anything on your Vancouver custom boxes for you.
How to Order Your Corrugated Cardboard Wholesale
From stock cartons to custom printing, call Racer Boxes at 604-270-8205 or contact us online anytime for your affordable, high quality wholesale boxes!
Racer Boxes: Your Local & Sustainable Vancouver Box Manufacturer
No matter where you go – to work, to the grocery store, or shopping at your favourite retail store – there are bound to be boxes in sight. Like we can’t escape them, boxes are part of our everyday life because they simply make life easier. But ever wonder where they come from?
Racer Boxes is a Vancouver box manufacturer here in Canada. From our standard cardboard boxes to custom boxes in Vancouver, this means that we use only locally sourced material from our Canadian forests and work only with local manufacturers here in Canada.
The most common type of cardboard box is the corrugated box. This type of cardboard is stiff, strong, and light-weight and is made up from two layers of brown kraft paper. For customized orders we do 3 layers of kraft paper. Corrugated boxes were first developed in 1884 to resist tearing, splitting, and bursting. The term corrugate comes from the converting process of which wood pulp is corrugated and made into paper. The wood pulp is rolled over to create the famous corrugated waves, and then the paper is cut to size and glued together to form its final shape.
Why we are so proud to manufacture our boxes at home in Canada is because Canada actually leads the world in the adoption of sustainable forest management. The average percentage of our corrugated boxes in Vancouver are made from only just over 10% freshly-cut tree; the remainder is from recycled paper and board or woodchips, shavings, and sawdust left over from other operations. Not to mention, this 10% is less than only 0.5% of Canada’s extensive forestlands. Much more of our forests are burned in forest fires or killed by insects and beetles. Canada has also implemented strict measures for forest regeneration including tree planting and seeding initiatives, which make up for the trees that were cut down for any of our Vancouver box manufacturing purposes.
So join us! In our support for local and sustainable Vancouver box manufacturing practices, for any of your boxing needs.
How to Order Your Sustainable Boxes Wholesale
From stock cartons to custom display boxes, call Racer Boxes at 604-270-8205 or contact us online anytime for your affordable, high quality wholesale boxes!
4 Ways to Think “Inside” The Box for Home Decoration
Sorting things around the house can be a difficult task, especially because there are a lot of things that need to be stored properly, coupled with a general lack of space. Here are 4 extraordinary ways to make your house beautiful by thinking “inside” the box:
1 ) The Cardboard Shoe Closet
If you’re a shoe collector, you must have faced the dire tragedy of not having enough room to display your footwear properly. Closets often have limited shoe space, making it very difficult to store shoes and sandals in the appropriate way.
One excellent solution is to keep the shoe inside the shoe box and stack all the shoe boxes on top of each other in your closet. In this way, you can neatly amass a larger number of shoe pairs without creating a mess. What’s better is that you can label each box with the description of the shoe inside it. This makes it easy to pick out the pair you would like to wear.
2) Cardboard Make-up Display
Where the half-used lip gloss you bought last season go missing is still one of the biggest mysteries confronting mankind. To avoid any such unfortunate losses, stock all your favorite make-up in display boxes that are segregated into smaller compartments. Racer Boxes in Vancouver BC has display boxes and counter trays that can do the job. You can keep eye make-up in one segment and lip glosses in the other and so on. You can neatly place these boxes on top of your dressing table or inside drawers. The same solution applies for jewelry and miniature accessories, such as rings, necklaces, earrings and hair accessories.
3) Cardboard DVD Insert Organizers
Many people who like to collect DVD’s, video games or music CD’s often face the trouble of empty covers and wobbly piles of unrecognizable discs disseminated around their room. To sort them out neatly, all you need are Racer Boxes’ insert organizers. These are boxes that work like small drawers. You have a body set that can slide in and out of a sleeve, much like a matchbox. By organizing your DVD’s in the insert organizer, you can avoid the mess around your room and finally arrange your discs according to genre or in chronological order.
4) Cardboard Book Boxes
College students and book worms would know the pain of not having enough bookshelf space in your room. While building shelves can be time consuming and expensive, a cheaper alternative is to have boxes containing all your favorite books and notebooks. You can label these boxes and stack them in one corner of your room. For a better aesthetic appeal, you can decorate the boxes with wrapping paper, paint or stickers.
How To Buy Bulk Cardboard From Racer Boxes in Richmond BC
To order your wholesale corrugated cardboard, call Racer Boxes at 604-270–8205 or contact us online anytime!
What Makes a Good Delivery Box?
Delivery boxes come in all shapes and sizes (literally) but you have to choose the one that’s 
perfect for your needs. Nowadays, delivery boxes are made up of a variety of different materials, providing you with a much wider choice. However, as the variety increases, customers often find themselves in great confusion. Here is a simplified guideline to help you determine what makes a good delivery box:
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Weight to Volume Ratio
While we all want spacious boxes, it should be noted that with the increase in size, boxes also become heavier. This makes handling and transportation costly. But using too many small boxes can come out to be very expensive. As a result, you need to make sure that your delivery box offers the optimum weight to volume ratio. This means that it should be roomy enough to hold everything without being too heavy.
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Environment Friendly
If you’re a responsible citizen, you will probably care about the environment. Good delivery boxes should be environment friendly. Racer Boxes’ cardboard boxes are greener than their plastic counterparts and can be recycled and reused. Since boxes are often used in bulk, it is important to choose a box that has been sourced responsibly.
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Strength & Robustness
A good box should also be strong enough to reduce the impact of rough handling so that the contents can be saved from damage, especially in the case of fragile goods or food products. In many cases, delivery boxes are stacked one on top of the other and have to undergo bumpy rides along long distances. The box that you choose must have shock-proof qualities and should protect from other damaging factors in the environment, such as humidity or heat.
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Value for Money
A good delivery box will give you great value for money. But being low on price and high on functionality, Racer Boxes corrugated cardboard boxes prove to highly cost-effective. They turn out to be cheap for the customer since they can be bought in bulk, which reduces the per-piece price of the boxes. Racer Boxes cardboard cartons can also be reused, thus reducing the cost even further.
How To Contact Racer Boxes in Richmond BC
If you have any questions on custom delivery boxes, or want to place an order for your wholesale delivery boxes, call Racer Boxes at 604-270–8205 or contact us online anytime!
How to Get Creative Bakery Boxes at Wholesale Prices
Do you have a passion for baking or own a bakery? If the answer to this question is a yes, then you probably would have experienced the search for creative boxes for your baked goods. Here are some great tips to find creative bakery boxes at wholesale prices:
Pick the Right Size
You probably don’t want those cupcakes to bump against one another and ruin the frosting, nor would you want to over pack and squish them. In order to avoid such circumstances, you need to pick the right sized bakery box.
Make sure that it is tall enough to accommodate the items you’re going to put in them, without the lid touching the food and smudging it all over the place. The box should also be wide enough to hold the desired number of baked items.
Go For the Flaps
Your customers may need to re-pack the box after consuming some of your delicious donuts. To make it easy for them to store the food in the box for a longer time, feel free to choose boxes with folding flaps. The flap-lid can be easily secured back in place, making the box simple to store in the refrigerator. What’s more, even if the box falls, there is a great chance that the items will not spill on the floor. Racer Boxes has corrugated boxes that provide their contents with added safety in order to avoid breakages during such accidents.
Custom Printing Does the Trick
Like any business, your bakery needs to have its own brand identity to generate customer recall. Good news! With Racer Boxes’ high quality custom printing, you can brand your bakery boxes with your brand logo and slogan. Having images on the box would not only make it interesting, but would also help create a positive brand image for your bakery.
How To Order Your Wholesale Baker Boxes
To order your boxes from Racer Boxes in the Greater Vancouver Area, get in touch with us online or give us a call at 604-270–8205!