Sell plastic pallets in Montana
Montana had 428 warehousing jobs in 2025, 50th 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
Montana in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 428 (50th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 52 (45th of 50); about 8 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.02%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 2,492 (49th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- food manufacturing, 0.4x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 631
- Auto parts jobs
- 56
Reading a Montana lot
52 establishments employ 428 people in Montana, about 8 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.
Montana has 5.8 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. Among the other industries counted here, pharmaceutical manufacturing (631 jobs) is 11 times the size of auto parts (56).
Yellowstone County holds 28.5% of Montana's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 50.2%. The jobs are spread across the state, so no one county sets the route. None of the metros in the dossier sits inside Montana, so a lot is read by its ZIP.
The October 2025 USDA table used here gives no separate figure for Montana, so cold-chain lots are read on their photos and what they carried.
Where Montana's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Yellowstone | 122 | 28.5% |
| Gallatin | 48 | 11.2% |
| Toole | 45 | 10.5% |
What Montana's industries put on the dock
- Food manufacturing: 2,492 jobs, 2025
- Grocery and related product wholesale: 2,459 jobs, 2025
Of the industries counted, food manufacturing sits furthest above the national average in Montana, at 0.4 times. Read food and beverage plants for how its pallets are sorted.
Where Montana sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Montana | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 50th: 428 | Alaska, 587 (+159) | None: this is the end of the table |
| Warehousing establishments | 45th: 52 | Hawaii, 57 (+5) | South Dakota, 42 (-10) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 49th: 2,492 | New Hampshire, 2,774 (+282) | Wyoming, 902 (-1,590) |
States next to Montana
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 1,438 | Cass (1,186) | 5,564 | food manufacturing |
| South Dakota | 3,269 | Minnehaha (2,930) | 10,866 | meat and poultry processing |
| Wyoming | 1,974 | Laramie (1,747) | 902 | chemical manufacturing |
| Idaho | 2,445 | Ada (1,025) | 21,363 | fruit and vegetable preserving |
Montana has fewer warehousing jobs than each of these. The largest of them, South Dakota, has 7.6 times Montana's 428. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Montana
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 631 | 1.5 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 56 | 0.1 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Montana
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 Montana have?
428 private-sector jobs across 52 establishments in 2025, 0.02% of the US total, which ranks Montana 50th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Montana?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Montana. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Montana industry is most concentrated?
Food manufacturing, at 0.4 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Words you will meet
- GMA pallet
- The 48 x 40 in North American standard footprint.
- Nest increment
- How much height each extra nested pallet adds to a stack.
- Rackable
- Rated to sit on rack beams, with a stated racking load.
- Fork pocket
- Opening in the pallet where the forks go.
- One-way pallet
- A cheaper pallet shipped with the load and not expected back.
- Multi-trip pallet
- A pallet designed to be returned and reused many times.
- RFID
- Radio tag moulded or fixed into a pallet so it can be tracked.
- FM 4996
- FM Approvals standard that rates a pallet as equal to wood in fire tests.
- CP9
- A chemical-industry pallet standard, 1140 x 1140 mm.
- Euro pallet
- 800 x 1200 mm footprint.
- Nest ratio
- How many empty pallets fit in the height of one.
- ISPM 15
- The international standard for treating wood packaging against pests. Plastic pallets are outside it.
- Closed loop
- Pallets that travel between known sites and come back, so they are never lost to a downstream user.
- UL 2335
- UL fire-test standard for storage pallets, with an idle pallet test and a commodity storage test.
- Creep
- Slow bending of plastic under a heavy load held for a long time.
- Thermoforming
- Heated plastic sheet formed over a mould; lighter pallets.
Who asks, and what they need
- Plants changing packaging or pallet size
- Retire a whole stock of one footprint at once; want it sold or ground up, not landfilled.
- Chemical and drum shippers
- 48 x 48 and 45 x 45 pallets for drums and bags; chemical resistance.
- Food and beverage distributors and bottlers
- Clean, odour-free, washable pallets; open or closed deck; 56 x 44 beverage and 48 x 40 sizes; often asks about food-contact paperwork.
What the sources say
- Counties with the most private meat and poultry processing jobs (NAICS 3116) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Hall County, Georgia (11,123), Cook County, Illinois (8,367), Sussex County, Delaware (8,212), Marshall County, Alabama (7,387), Fresno County, California (6,499), Douglas County, Nebraska (6,452). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 892,426 jobs across 25,801 establishments in chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Texas (90,310), California (75,499), Ohio (49,328), Illinois (48,745), New Jersey (47,966). (data.bls.gov)
- PHS lists a 56 x 44 beverage pallet (STK 285) at 2,500 lb dynamic and 30,000 lb static. (phsinc.com)
- ISO 6780 lists 1016 x 1219 mm for North America, 1000 x 1200 mm for Europe and Asia and 800 x 1200 mm for Europe. (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)
- California AB 1760 (2022) lets recyclers take possession of stray proprietary pallets if the owner cannot be identified or fails to retrieve them in time, with a 35-day period before they can be declared abandoned. (palletenterprise.com)
- 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 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)
- Warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) was 1.4% of the 133,160,274 private-sector jobs QCEW counted in the US in 2025. (data.bls.gov)
- Port of Long Beach moved a record 9,881,595 TEUs in 2025 (imports 4,779,559; exports 1,141,113; empties 3,960,925), per Container News reporting the port's year-end results. (container-news.com)
- The Northwest Seaport Alliance (Seattle and Tacoma) handled 3,156,598 TEUs of international and domestic containers in 2025, down 5.5 percent from 2024, with full imports down 10.3 percent and full exports down 4.9 percent. (nwseaportalliance.com)
- Georgia Ports Authority moved 5.7 million TEUs in fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025), up 8.6 percent or 450,000 TEUs, the Port of Savannah's second-busiest year after 5.76 million in FY2022. (container-news.com)
- 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)
- 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)
- Counties with the most private motor vehicle manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3361) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Wayne County, Michigan (24,188), Bexar County, Texas (6,165), Cook County, Illinois (5,473), Eaton County, Michigan (4,432), Oakland County, Michigan (735), Los Angeles County, California (643). (data.bls.gov)
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