Charlotte region, NC and SC I-85 I-77 I-40
NCI-85US 74
Textile and thread county west of Charlotte across the Catawba River, with truck plants in Mount Holly and Gastonia.
Gaston County is the textile and thread county west of Charlotte, across the Catawba River, with truck plants in Mount Holly and Gastonia. Its clusters are automotive, downstream and upstream chemical products, textiles, livestock processing, and recreational and small electric goods. Few counties in the region send out as many different kinds of gaylord from such a short stretch of I-85.
A thread mill wants light, dry boxes in 2‑wall or 3‑wall. A truck plant wants heavy-wall boxes with full flap bottoms, and ships them out the same week it receives them. Both end up with empties to place. Gastonia, Mount Holly, Belmont and Cherryville each have a page of their own.
Gaston County empties come in two families. Mills and thread plants send light, bulky boxes that held cones, yarn or fiber. Truck and parts plants send tall, heavy boxes with strong bottoms. Keep the two apart when you count them, because a buyer who wants one rarely wants the other, and a mixed pile is harder to describe than two clean ones.
The lanes on this page: automotive, downstream and upstream chemical products, textiles, livestock processing, and recreational and small electric goods.
The industry lines named for Gaston are automotive, upstream and downstream chemical products, textiles, livestock processing, and recreational and small electric goods. Livestock processing is the one that surprises people on a gaylord list: it moves feed, ingredients and packaging in bulk, so a plant may be both a source of lined octabins and a buyer of tall ones. Chemical docks add the liner question to every conversation. Write down for each line of boxes what it held, whether a bag was used, and whether the bag stays.
Gaston County docks that run yarn, chemicals and truck parts should stage by lane. Keep yarn boxes dry and flat, chemical octabins upright with liners noted, truck-part boxes on pallets with full flaps intact. A livestock-processing plant that has lined octabins should mark them clearly. Write the counts for each lane on a sheet and keep it near the stack, so the person who walks the floor can see the same numbers you wrote in the request.
Gaston sits west of Charlotte across the Catawba River, with I-85 running through Gastonia and Belmont and US 74 running toward Kings Mountain. The county touches Mecklenburg, Cleveland, Lincoln and York, so a stack at the edge of the county can be nearer to a buyer in the next one than to one in Gastonia.
Take a Gaston County mill with forty 2‑wall boxes at 40 x 30 x 30 in that held cones, and a parts line with twelve 3‑wall boxes at 48 x 40 x 36 in. Write them as two lines. The mill stack is light, so the point to stress is that it has stayed under a roof; the parts stack is heavy, so the point to stress is that the bottoms are still square. One ZIP per site, one line per kind of box, and the whole county reads like a short manifest.
Gaston touches Mecklenburg, Cleveland, Lincoln and York in South Carolina, and those four pages are where a Gaston stack is most likely to be matched.
Yes. Say which boxes are dry and which stood outside, because that changes the grade you will be offered.
Count, footprint and wall count are enough to start.
No prices, minimums or times are stated here.