Custom Bin Box Dividers
Custom bin box dividers from 100 — open-front corrugated shelf bins with fitted partitions for parts, hardware, craft supplies and counter goods, plain kraft, white or printed.
Open at the front so a hand can reach in without looking
- Board
- Corrugated B or C flute single wall; double wall for heavy parts
- Build
- One-piece fold-up bin, tape-free lock, doubled front lip
- Dividers
- Cross, length, grid or removable slide-in panels
Order online
Order bin box dividers
Starting from $2.50 per unit
Printed to your artwork or plain, sold in runs of 100 up to 5,000 units per product online. Freight to the US, UK, Canada and Australia is inside the price.
How an online order runs
- Add the units you needThen check out with your delivery address. Add other products to the same order on the way.
- A digital proof comes backLaid on the dieline, before anything prints. Change it as often as you need.
- Pay once you approve itPay by PayPal invoice or bank transfer after you approve your digital proof, or cash on delivery in the US and Canada.
- We make it and ship it deliveredYour delivery date is confirmed with the proof, against the spec and your fill date. Freight and customs are handled on the way to you.
Another size, board or finish, or more than 5,000 units? Send the spec for a price instead. Freight by market and our terms cover delivery and remakes.
Get a price for Bin Box Dividers
Send the size and quantity — we reply the same working day with a price, a dieline and a date. Artwork optional at this stage.
- Free dielineThe flat drawing comes with the quote, before you commit.
- Proof before pressNothing is printed until you have seen it laid on the dieline.
- Die kept for reordersTooling is paid once. Every reorder skips straight to press.
- Quoted in four marketsUS, UK, Canada and Australia, in the delivery currency.
The shape of a shelf bin
A bin has a tall back, a low front and side walls that slope down between them. The low front lets you see in and reach in from standing height; the tall back stops items sliding off the shelf behind. Corrugated bins fold from one flat blank and lock without tape, with doubled walls at the front lip where hands grab them most.
Size to the shelf. A bin is usually a fraction shorter than the shelf depth, and its width is set so a whole number of bins fills a shelf run with no gap.
Divider layouts
| Single cross divider | Splits a bin front to back into two compartments |
|---|---|
| Length dividers | Two to four lanes running from front to back |
| Grid | Slotted partitions forming small cells for very small parts |
| Removable dividers | Slide-in panels that can move as the stock changes |
Where corrugated bins work and where they do not
- Good for dry, light-to-medium items: fasteners, electrical parts, stationery, craft supplies.
- Good for seasonal or short-term setups where plastic bins are overkill.
- Good for retail counters, where a printed bin doubles as a display.
- Not for wet areas, oily parts or heavy metal stock, which soften or crush board.
Board grades by load
Most bins use single-wall B or C flute, which holds a few kilos of small parts. For heavy fasteners or tightly packed stock, double-wall board and a doubled front lip stop the bin from bowing out at the front. White board makes labels easier to read in a dim stockroom. For partitions inside closed shipping boxes, see our box partitions for shipping cartons.
Labels, numbering and print
The front lip is the label area. We can print bin numbers, part codes or color bands directly on it, or leave a clear panel for your own labels. Printed bins for a retail counter carry a brand panel on the tall back, which faces the customer when the bin sits on a counter. See our packaging inserts range for dividers that sit in other boxes.
Send the shelf depth and width, the items going in and how many compartments you want. That sets the bin size, the board and the divider layout.
Bin Box Dividers — specification
The rows that are specific to this build first, then what applies to every job we run. Anything not listed is a question, not a limit — send the brief.
This build
- Board
- Corrugated B or C flute single wall; double wall for heavy parts
- Build
- One-piece fold-up bin, tape-free lock, doubled front lip
- Dividers
- Cross, length, grid or removable slide-in panels
- Sizes
- Cut to shelf depth and to fill a shelf run evenly
- Plain kraft or white; printed bin numbers, codes or brand panels
- Minimum
- 100 bins
On every job
- Print process
- Flexo in one to four colors straight onto the liner; litho-lamination where the box needs full color or a photograph.
- Color
- Flat colors on kraft. Full color needs a white top liner or a laminated sheet, because brown shifts every color warm.
- Tolerance
- Cutting plus or minus 1.5 mm. The flute compresses, so corrugated runs wider than folding board.
- Tooling
- No die on a regular slotted box, which is cut on a slotter. Die-cut mailers and trays need one, made once and kept.
- Food contact
- Food-grade liners and a vented build where the box carries hot food.
- Sustainability
- High recycled content through liners and flute as standard, and the box recycles whole if it is sealed with paper tape.
- Artwork
- Vector PDF or AI, 3 mm bleed, 4 mm safe area, fonts outlined. We check every file and send a proof before press.
- Dieline
- Supplied free with the quote, before you commit. Yours whether or not you order.
- Sample
- A plain unprinted sample at the finished size on request, for fit and construction.
- Reorders
- Skip the tooling and go straight to press at a lower unit price.
- Lead time
- Quoted with the price against your fill date rather than promised before we have seen the spec.
- Markets
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia — priced in the delivery currency, freight included.
Boards and films we build bin box dividers on
Corrugated is a fluted sheet glued between two liners, and the flute decides nearly everything: how it prints, how it dents, how high it stacks. These are the grades we run.
E flute
About 1.5 mm. Prints well and folds crisply; dents under a stack. Retail boxes, mailers and light shippers.
1.5 mm, single wallB flute
About 3 mm. The working default for parcels — takes print reasonably and stacks reasonably. Most shipping boxes are B.
3 mm, single wallC flute
About 4 mm. More cushioning than B, slightly less stacking strength per weight. Common on grocery and produce cases.
4 mm, single wallBC double wall
B and C glued together, about 7 mm. Heavy or fragile goods, pallet stacking, anything over roughly 15 kg.
7 mm, double wallKraft liner
Brown, strong, absorbent. One or two flat colors flexo print well on it; photographs drink into the brown and go muddy.
Outer and inner linerWhite top liner
A bleached outer liner for full-color print on corrugated. Costs more and marks more easily than kraft.
Outer liner onlyRecycled-content corrugated
High post-consumer fiber through liners and flute. The default for shippers; a slightly grayer brown and no loss of strength at grade.
All flutesCoated and water-resistant
A coating or a wax-free barrier liner for damp stores and cold chains. Check the recycling stream before printing a claim on it.
B and C fluteNot sure which? Say what goes in it and where it is sold — the material follows from that. Our notes on recycled, recyclable and compostable cover which claims each stock can honestly carry.
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Send what you have
A dimension, a photograph beside a ruler, or the product itself. No technical drawing needed — that part is ours.
- 02
We quote and draw
A price, a dieline and a date come back together. If a different build would suit the product better, that is in the reply too.
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Approve the dieline
The flat drawing is yours to check: which panel is the front, where the folds fall, how deep the cavity really is.
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Artwork on the dieline
You place your design on the flat we sent, or we place it for you, and you see a proof before anything goes to press.
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A sample if you want one
A plain unprinted sample at the finished size shows fit and construction — the things a drawing cannot.
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Cut, printed, shipped
The die is cut once and kept, so every reorder skips the tooling and goes straight to press at a lower unit price.
Format
Vector PDF or AI where possible. Raster artwork at 300dpi at final size, in CMYK.
Bleed
3 mm past every trim line, so a fraction of drift on the cutter never leaves a white edge.
Safe area
Keep type and anything important 4 mm inside the cut and away from every fold.
Color
Convert to CMYK before sending. Uncoated stock prints lighter; a spot color is the only exact match.
Fonts
Outline them or supply the files. A missing font substitutes silently and the proof will not match.
Barcodes
On a light, matte, unvarnished patch with the quiet zone clear — a code on gloss fails the scanner.
Not set up that way? Send it anyway — fixing a file is a short conversation, and we check every one before press. Our guide to preparing print files covers each point.
Corrugated takes fewer finishes than folding board, and the ones it takes it takes well.
Flexo on kraft
One or two flat colors straight onto brown. Cheap, fast, honest.
Litho-lamination
An offset sheet glued to the flute: full color and photographs on a shipper.
Aqueous varnish
Scuff resistance with no film, so the box still recycles whole.
White top print
Full color flexo on a bleached liner; brighter, and it marks more easily.
Inside print
A second pass on the inner liner — the panel a customer sees first.
Printed tape seal
The brand applied at the last moment, on paper tape that recycles with the box.
Not sure which suits the shelf it sells from? Say where the product is sold and we suggest one — our notes on specialty finishes show them on real boxes.
Sizing a corrugated box against the carrier, not the catalog: bin box dividers
Corrugated is cut to your internal size, so the box goes round the product rather than the product going into a stock size. That is where the money is: a box 20 mm smaller each way is often a whole postage band cheaper.
- Internal dimensions
- Length, width and depth of the space you need. Board thickness is added outside that, and the flute is thicker than people expect.
- Clearance and void fill
- 5–10 mm a side for a rigid product. Size it properly and you need no void fill at all, which is cheaper and better received.
- Stacking
- Tell us how high the boxes stack on a pallet or a shelf. Edge crush grade is specified from that, not guessed.
- Weight
- The contents weight sets the flute and the liner grade. Over about 15 kg we move to double wall.
- Score allowance
- Corrugated needs more room at the folds than boxboard. The dieline accounts for it; a box drawn from flat dimensions comes out tight.
- Cutting tolerance
- Plus or minus 1.5 mm on corrugated, wider than folding board because the flute compresses.
Not sure your numbers are right? Send the product dimensions rather than the box dimensions and we work the box out — the full method is in our guide to measuring for a box.
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Build your Bin Box Dividers in 3D
Pick a shape, type a size, choose a board and a finish. The preview on the left redraws as you go, and the spec lands with us exactly as you set it.
Frequently asked questions
Got a question about bin box dividers? The answers below cover what we get asked most. If yours is not here, send it with a brief, message us on WhatsApp, or call +1 503-461-4788 — we reply the same working day.
What are bin box dividers used for?
To split an open-front shelf bin into compartments, so small parts and supplies of different sizes stay separate.
How much weight can a corrugated bin box hold?
Single-wall bins hold a few kilos of small parts; double-wall bins with a doubled front lip carry heavier stock.
Do corrugated bin boxes need tape?
No. They fold from one flat blank and lock together without tape or glue.
Can bin box dividers be moved?
Yes, if you choose removable slide-in dividers. Fixed dividers are slotted in during assembly.
What size bin box do I need for my shelves?
A bin slightly shorter than the shelf depth, with a width that fills the shelf run in whole bins.
Can bin boxes be printed with part numbers?
Yes. Bin numbers, part codes or color bands can be printed on the front lip, or a clear label panel left.
Are corrugated bins suitable for oily parts?
No. Oil and moisture soften corrugated board, so oily or wet parts belong in plastic or steel bins.
Can bin boxes be used as retail counter displays?
Yes. A printed brand panel on the tall back faces customers when the bin sits on a counter.
Why do bin boxes have a low front?
So people can see and reach in from standing height, while the tall back stops items sliding off the shelf.
Do you make bin boxes in white board?
Yes. White board makes labels and codes easier to read in a dim stockroom.
Can a bin box have a grid of small cells?
Yes. Slotted grid partitions make small cells for very small parts such as screws and connectors.
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