Sell plastic pallets in Alaska
Alaska had 587 warehousing jobs in 2025, 49th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is food manufacturing. Send the lot with its ZIP; the desk reads size, style, grade and marks, and rules it sold, returned or scrapped.
Last reviewed November 12, 2026
Alaska in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 587 (49th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 30 (49th of 50); about 20 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.03%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 8,882 (39th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- food manufacturing, 2.6x the national share of employment
Reading an Alaska lot
30 establishments employ 587 people in Alaska, about 20 each against 82 for the fifty states. It is one of the smaller warehousing states, so a lot here is rarely one of many on the same road. Small sites tend to mean a few stacks at a time.
Alaska has 15 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Plants outweigh the warehouses that serve them, which favours clean decks and stocks rotated on a schedule.
Anchorage Municipality County holds 89.4% of Alaska's warehousing jobs, and the one listed county holds that share. One county carries more than half the state's warehousing, so a lot outside it is a longer haul. None of the metros in the dossier sits inside Alaska, so a lot is read by its ZIP.
The October 2025 USDA table used here gives no separate figure for Alaska, so cold-chain lots are read on their photos and what they carried.
Where Alaska's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Anchorage Municipality | 525 | 89.4% |
What Alaska's industries put on the dock
- Food manufacturing: 8,882 jobs, 2025
- Grocery and related product wholesale: 1,717 jobs, 2025
Of the industries counted, food manufacturing sits furthest above the national average in Alaska, at 2.6 times. Read food and beverage plants for how its pallets are sorted.
Where Alaska sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Alaska | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 49th: 587 | Vermont, 1,057 (+470) | Montana, 428 (-159) |
| Warehousing establishments | 49th: 30 | Rhode Island, 40 (+10) | Wyoming, 23 (-7) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 39th: 8,882 | Connecticut, 9,671 (+789) | Nevada, 8,424 (-458) |
The nearest mainland states to Alaska
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 36,691 | Pierce (10,323) | 39,687 | fruit and vegetable preserving |
| Oregon | 16,750 | Multnomah (7,435) | 28,203 | fruit and vegetable preserving |
Alaska has fewer warehousing jobs than each of these. The largest of them, Washington, has 63 times Alaska's 587. A lot here is ruled on its own: freight to or from the mainland changes what a pickup means.
More on Alaska from the sources
- States where food manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (4.9%), Arkansas (4.7%), Iowa (4.6%), Alaska (3.4%), Wisconsin (3.2%); the national share is 1.33%. (data.bls.gov)
Sending a lot from Alaska
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a rotated hygienic stock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Alaska have?
587 private-sector jobs across 30 establishments in 2025, 0.03% of the US total, which ranks Alaska 49th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Alaska?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Alaska. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Alaska industry is most concentrated?
Food manufacturing, at 2.6 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Words you will meet
- Creep
- Slow bending of plastic under a heavy load held for a long time.
- PP
- Polypropylene. More rigid than HDPE and better with heat and harsh chemicals; used where rack stiffness matters.
- Virgin resin
- New, unblended resin that has not been through a product before.
- Static load
- Weight a pallet carries at rest, or the bottom pallet carries when stacked. The highest of the three ratings.
- Dynamic load
- Weight a pallet carries while moving on a forklift, pallet jack or conveyor.
- Racking load
- Weight a pallet carries bridging an open span in unsupported racking. Often the lowest rating.
- Closed deck
- Solid top deck with no gaps; keeps small items from falling through.
- Stackable
- Loaded pallets can sit on top of each other, up to the static rating.
- Heat treated (HT)
- ISPM 15 treatment for wood: core at 56 C for 30 minutes. Not needed for plastic.
- Pooling
- Renting pallets from a company that owns, tracks and collects them instead of buying.
- Captive pallet
- A pallet owned and kept inside one company or loop.
- Commodity classification
- Sprinkler design class of stored goods; an unlisted plastic pallet can raise it.
- Profile extrusion
- Pushing resin through a die to make long shapes that form pallet parts.
- Welding repair
- Plastic is hard to glue, so cracked parts are normally welded.
- Resin identification code
- Number on a plastic part for the resin, which does not itself say whether it is recyclable.
- Regrind
- Plastic ground from used or scrap parts into flakes for moulding again.
Who asks, and what they need
- Chemical and drum shippers
- 48 x 48 and 45 x 45 pallets for drums and bags; chemical resistance.
- Export shippers
- Light or low-cost one-way pallets with no ISPM 15 treatment; Euro 1200 x 800 and 1200 x 1000 sizes.
- Warehouses with automated storage
- Rackable pallets with a stated rack rating, cruciform base, consistent size for conveyors.
What the sources say
- Counties with the most private fruit and vegetable preserving jobs (NAICS 3114) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (3,695), Stanislaus County, California (3,669), Fresno County, California (3,355), Cook County, Illinois (2,861), Franklin County, Washington (2,520), Marion County, Oregon (2,273). (data.bls.gov)
- States where food manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (4.9%), Arkansas (4.7%), Iowa (4.6%), Alaska (3.4%), Wisconsin (3.2%); the national share is 1.33%. (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private grocery and related product wholesale jobs (NAICS 4244) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (36,194), Cook County, Illinois (23,404), Miami-Dade County, Florida (14,422), Harris County, Texas (14,172), Dallas County, Texas (12,337), Maricopa County, Arizona (9,996). (data.bls.gov)
- States where meat and poultry processing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (3.7%), Arkansas (3.1%), Iowa (2.6%), Delaware (2.4%), Mississippi (2.0%); the national share is 0.42%. (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private dairy product manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3115) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Sheboygan County, Wisconsin (3,238), Los Angeles County, California (3,204), Franklin County, Ohio (2,930), Tulare County, California (2,916), Dodge County, Wisconsin (2,659), Marathon County, Wisconsin (2,535). (data.bls.gov)
- States where dairy product manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Wisconsin (1.1%), Vermont (0.8%), Idaho (0.7%), South Dakota (0.4%), Iowa (0.3%); the national share is 0.13%. (data.bls.gov)
- A 2010 insurer figure cited by ICC puts fire spread to a pallet above at about 18 minutes for plastic versus nearly 50 for wood. (iccsafe.org)
- In 2011 a Quebec court ruled that CHEP's identified blue pallets belong to CHEP and cannot be sold. (palletenterprise.com)
- Private employers in the US averaged 73,136 jobs across 1,811 establishments in refrigerated warehousing (NAICS 49312) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (9,969), Texas (6,638), New Jersey (5,388), Georgia (4,453), Pennsylvania (4,102). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 556,647 jobs across 4,689 establishments in meat and poultry processing (NAICS 3116) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Texas (44,780), Georgia (42,030), North Carolina (35,715), Arkansas (34,773), Iowa (33,386). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 173,844 jobs across 2,936 establishments in fruit and vegetable preserving (NAICS 3114) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (27,518), Wisconsin (11,014), Washington (10,988), Ohio (10,327), Texas (9,194). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private warehousing and storage jobs (NAICS 493) in 2025, BLS QCEW: San Bernardino County, California (67,058), Riverside County, California (51,310), Dallas County, Texas (44,657), Maricopa County, Arizona (42,291), San Joaquin County, California (28,518), Clark County, Nevada (28,250), Middlesex County, New Jersey (26,309), Will County, Illinois (25,357). (data.bls.gov)
- Port Houston's public terminals handled 4,303,345 TEUs in 2025 (up 4 percent, a record) and 54,491,066 short tons of cargo; the Houston Ship Channel is described as the nation's largest port for waterborne tonnage, with more than 200 private and eight public terminals. (porthouston.com)
- Counties with the most private refrigerated warehousing jobs (NAICS 49312) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (2,320), Middlesex County, New Jersey (1,661), San Bernardino County, California (1,565), Cook County, Illinois (1,552), Wayne County, Michigan (1,041), Maricopa County, Arizona (871). (data.bls.gov)
- Plastic pallets are made by injection molding, structural foam molding, thermoforming, compression molding, rotational molding and profile extrusion. (en.wikipedia.org)
- NFPA requires wood and plastic pallets to be stored outdoors or in a detached structure unless sprinklers protect them. (en.wikipedia.org)
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