Gaylords in Coatesville and Downingtown

Coatesville is a steel town by reputation and still has the plants to prove it, strung along the Brandywine. Downingtown, further east, is a manufacturing and commuter town with light industry on its edges. Farms fill the land between and beyond.

Steel and fabrication produce dense, awkward loads. Short boxes with strong walls and full-flap bottoms are the norm, and the boxes take a beating. A used box from a steel-adjacent shop often has a few bruises; the grading step matters more here than anywhere.

Our research lists steel, manufacturing and farming for this pair of towns. We do not name plants or cite figures for them.

Farms nearby need bins in the harvest season. A grade-C or B box that is wrong for steel parts may be just right for a late-summer bin.

This page covers 19320, 19335, 19372 and 19365. The industries to expect there, from our market research: steel, manufacturing and farming.

Steel follows orders. Farms follow the harvest, late summer into fall.

• Buy. Fabricators wanting short used boxes; farms wanting cheap harvest bins.
• Sell. Shops with intact empties from supplier deliveries.
• Recycle. Bent, bruised board from the shop floor, once sorted.

Grade matters. Tell us honestly what shape the boxes are in, and we match them to the right job.

• Plate. Flat steel too thick to be called sheet, made at mills along the Brandywine.
• Fabricator. A shop that cuts, bends and welds metal into parts, a source of dense loads.
• Harvest bin. A cheap multi-use box for picking fruit and vegetables in the field, often a Grade B or C gaylord.

• What the boxes carried: metal parts, fasteners or something else.
• Whether they are bruised or bent.
• The count and footprint.
• Whether you can load a truck.