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What's Just a Gaylord Box?

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You just heard the word gaylord and might have thought ‘what in seven hell is this word!? You need not to worry you are not alone! Gaylord box is mostly used in the shipping industry it is evolved as the common term which for all the large box products. Basically gaylord box is a bulk-size corrugated box. Traditionally these are bulk-size and large thus allow shipment products in large pallet or in a single container. ‘Gaylord box’ has developed gradually a general term for any pallet size box for bulk shipping of storage. Since the first bulk bins were manufactured in the North America thus this term gaylord is used for any type of the bulk box. Similarly as we say “Band-Aid®” for any brand of Band-Aid and “Kleenex®” for any kind of tissue, and name got stuck and corrugated boxes were known as gaylord boxes. Today large corrugated boxes are synonym for the gaylord boxes. These container are also referred as Tote boxes, bulk boxes, pallet container and many other. Even a Gaylord