Charlotte region, NC and SC I-85 I-77 I-40
NCI-40
I-40 town next to Hickory and Newton.
Conover is the I-40 town next to Hickory and Newton. Furniture and plastics are its lines.
Plastics plants here use octabins and liners; furniture plants use tall, light boxes.
Conover sends furniture and plastics empties. Furniture boxes are tall and light, plastics boxes are octabins with liners. If your plant runs both, put them on separate lines. The liner note matters for plastics, and the dry note matters for furniture.
The lanes on this page: furniture and plastics.
Conover's two lines are furniture and plastics. The town sits on I-40 beside Hickory and Newton. Furniture plants leave tall boxes that carried frames, panels and fittings; plastics plants leave octabins that carried pellets or regrind. For a plastics line the liner is the first question, and for furniture it is dryness. Two lines in the request is the minimum, and a third is worth adding if some boxes are printed.
A Conover plant that runs plastics and furniture should stage the two lines apart. Octabins belong on pallets with the liners folded inside or removed, as you intend. Furniture boxes belong flat or upright against a dry wall, away from the door where weather reaches. A strip of tape across a torn flap helps a stack travel, but mention it, because a buyer may prefer to see the tear. Write the count for each lot on a sticky note in the stack, as well as in the request.
Questions worth asking a Conover neighbor before you write: does your furniture plant still receive tall boxes with sleeves, and do the plastics lines swap octabins for sacks when volumes change? The answers tell you whether your empties are a one-time clear-out or a steady supply, which is the first thing a buyer wants to know. Bring that answer into the request.
A truck leaving Conover is on the interstate quickly, and the three Catawba towns share the same stretch of road. Statesville is the next city east, so matches are rarely far. A useful habit for Conover docks is to count in pallets as well as boxes. Plastics plants tend to know how many octabins sit on a pallet and how many pallets are staged, and furniture plants know how many flats of tall cartons are waiting by the door. Giving both numbers lets a buyer picture the stack without a visit, and it lets us catch a mistake before it becomes a wasted trip. The county page is Catawba County, which the market data describes this way: Hickory, Newton and Conover on I-40; fiber-optic cable, furniture and tape makers.
A Conover plastics plant might write: twenty-two octabins at 46 x 38 x 36 in, liners inside, the ZIP. A furniture line might write: thirty-six tall 2‑wall boxes at 48 x 40 x 48 in, dry. Two lines, one town, two buyers. If both ship to the same buyer later, the lines can be merged, but not before.
Hickory and Newton sit on either side of Conover along I-40.
It has its own page, but a request from either is read the same way. A plant with sites in both towns can send one request and list each location.
Count, footprint and wall count are enough to start.
No prices, minimums or times are stated here.