Sell plastic pallets in Maryland

Maryland in numbers

Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025

29,966 (20th of 50 states)

Warehousing establishments

245 (32nd of 50); about 122 jobs each

Share of US warehousing jobs

1.58%

Food manufacturing jobs

19,600 (32nd of 50)

Most concentrated pallet-using industry

pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, 1.5x the national share of employment

Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs

9,019

Motor vehicle assembly jobs

218

Auto parts jobs

247

Reading a Maryland lot

245 establishments employ 29,966 people in Maryland, about 122 each against 82 for the fifty states. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. Big sites tend to mean whole-stock lots.

Maryland has 0.7 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Warehouses outweigh the food plants around them, which favours mixed docks and strays from many suppliers. Among the other industries counted here, pharmaceutical manufacturing (9,019 jobs) is 41 times the size of motor vehicle assembly (218).

Harford County holds 11.5% of Maryland's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 26.5%. The jobs are spread across the state, so no one county sets the route. The dossier follows 2 metros in Maryland: Baltimore-Columbia-Towson and Hagerstown-Martinsburg.

The October 2025 USDA table used here gives no separate figure for Maryland, so cold-chain lots are read on their photos and what they carried.

Where Maryland's warehousing jobs sit

What Maryland's industries put on the dock

• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: 9,019 jobs, 2025
• Warehousing and storage: 29,966 jobs, 2025

Of the industries counted, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing sits furthest above the national average in Maryland, at 1.5 times. Read pharmaceutical plants for how its pallets are sorted.

Metros and freight clusters in Maryland

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson: 7 counties (Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard, Queen Anne's...). 6,377 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.34% of the US total; 0.6% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Harford (3,435), Howard (1,651), Anne Arundel (1,291). Most concentrated: grocery and related product wholesale at 1.4x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 20794 Jessup (18), 21224 Baltimore (15), 21226 Curtis Bay (13), 21230 Baltimore (9), 21075 Elkridge (9).

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. Hagerstown-Martinsburg: 3 counties (Washington, Berkeley, Morgan). 1,842 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.10% of the US total; 2.1% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Washington (1,842). Most concentrated: plastics product manufacturing at 4.3x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 21740 Hagerstown (14).

Where Maryland sits among the fifty

States next to Maryland

Maryland has fewer warehousing jobs than 2 of these 4 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Pennsylvania, has 4.1 times Maryland's 29,966. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.

Other pallet-using industries counted in Maryland

Sending a lot from Maryland

Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a clean closed-loop stock, say so in the message.

Who asks, and what they need

Closed-loop and captive pallet users

Large uniform lots of one size and style; repair and replacement parts.

Automotive plants and suppliers

48 x 45 pallets that match bulk containers; closed-loop reuse; heavy dynamic and static loads.

Distribution centres with surplus pallets

Sell or recycle excess lots, mixed makers and colours, broken pallets.

What the sources say

• NFPA requires wood and plastic pallets to be stored outdoors or in a detached structure unless sprinklers protect them. (en.wikipedia.org)
• The International Fire Code permits pallets listed and labeled under FM 4996 or UL 2335 to be treated as wood pallets for sprinkler design. (iccsafe.org)
• USDA APHIS lists plastic pallets among products not subject to APHIS regulation, as an alternative to wood packaging material. (aphis.usda.gov)
• Plastic pallets are made by injection molding, structural foam molding, thermoforming, compression molding, rotational molding and profile extrusion. (en.wikipedia.org)
• The 48 x 40 in GMA pallet makes up about 30 percent of new US wood pallets. (en.wikipedia.org)
• 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)
• Advanced composite material pallets are 100 percent recycled polyolefins, cheaper with a shorter life, and suit export where the pallet is not returned. (nelsoncompany.com)
• 43 x 43 in pallets are designed for bulk bags; 45 x 45 in is the CP9 chemical standard. (nelsoncompany.com)
• In 2011 a Quebec court ruled that CHEP's identified blue pallets belong to CHEP and cannot be sold. (palletenterprise.com)
• PHS Plastic lists 19 nestable 48 x 40 and other-footprint models with dynamic ratings from 1,102 to 3,500 lb and static ratings from 2,204 to 15,000 lb, so 'nestable' spans light export pallets to heavy-duty stackers. (phsinc.com)
• Private employers in the US averaged 829,364 jobs across 49,933 establishments in grocery and related product wholesale (NAICS 4244) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (109,827), Texas (75,474), Florida (63,967), New York (50,594), Illinois (48,629). (data.bls.gov)
• Refrigerated warehouse facility counts on October 1, 2025 (USDA NASS): California 106, Wisconsin 94, Georgia 62, Texas 56, Washington 52, Florida 50, Pennsylvania 38. (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
• Port of Los Angeles handled 9,447,731 TEUs from January through November 2025, 1 percent more than the same months of 2024; its executive director called 2025 firmly a top-three year in the port's history. (portoflosangeles.org)
• The Port of New York and New Jersey was the nation's second-busiest port for loaded containers in 2025, per the Port Authority's full-year volume release as reported by Air Freight News. (airfreight.news)
• FDA's Food Traceability Rule (FSMA section 204) requires businesses that make, process, pack or hold foods on the Food Traceability List to keep Key Data Elements for Critical Tracking Events and share them within 24 hours of a request; FDA says Congress directed it not to enforce the rule before July 20, 2028. (fda.gov)
• USDA APHIS requires wood packaging material entering the US to be treated and certified under ISPM 15, and lists plastic pallets among alternatives that are not subject to APHIS regulation. (aphis.usda.gov)

• BLS QCEW: warehousing and storage, 2025
• USDA: Cold Storage, refrigerated warehouse capacity

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