Sell plastic pallets in Nebraska

Nebraska in numbers

Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025

8,246 (37th of 50 states)

Warehousing establishments

156 (36th of 50); about 53 jobs each

Share of US warehousing jobs

0.43%

Food manufacturing jobs

41,939 (17th of 50)

Most concentrated pallet-using industry

meat and poultry processing, 8.9x the national share of employment

Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs

2,616

Auto parts jobs

3,822

Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025

49 million cubic feet (24th of 50)

Reading a Nebraska lot

156 establishments employ 8,246 people in Nebraska, about 53 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.

Nebraska has 5.1 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, auto parts (3,822 jobs) is 1.5 times the size of pharmaceutical manufacturing (2,616).

Sarpy County holds 43.8% of Nebraska's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 72.1%. Three counties carry most of the market, and a lot near any of them is close to the most dock activity. The dossier follows one metro in Nebraska: Omaha.

USDA counted 49 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Nebraska, 24th of 50 and about 5,942 cubic feet for each warehousing job, against 2,254 across the states it reports. Cold storage is a bigger part of the picture here, so expect cold-chain lots: decks that tolerate cold and moisture, and questions about washdown.

Where Nebraska's warehousing jobs sit

What Nebraska's industries put on the dock

• Meat and poultry processing: 31,833 jobs, 2025
• Food manufacturing: 41,939 jobs, 2025

Of the industries counted, meat and poultry processing sits furthest above the national average in Nebraska, at 8.9 times. Read meat and poultry plants for how its pallets are sorted.

The metro that matters in Nebraska

Omaha. Omaha: 8 counties (Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie, Cass, Douglas, Sarpy...). 5,157 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.27% of the US total; 1.2% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Sarpy (3,613), Douglas (1,252), Pottawattamie (292). Most concentrated: meat and poultry processing at 5.3x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 68138 Omaha (10), 68137 Omaha (4), 68128 La Vista (4), 68127 Omaha (4), 68122 Omaha (3).

Where Nebraska sits among the fifty

States next to Nebraska

Nebraska has fewer warehousing jobs than 4 of these 6 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Missouri, has 3.2 times Nebraska's 8,246. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.

More on Nebraska from the sources

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

Other pallet-using industries counted in Nebraska

Sending a lot from Nebraska

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

Who asks, and what they need

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.

Closed-loop and captive pallet users

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

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)
• 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)
• 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)
• USDA APHIS lists plastic pallets among products not subject to APHIS regulation, as an alternative to wood packaging material. (aphis.usda.gov)
• A Nelson 48 x 40 x 4.8 in nestable, stackable, rackable polypropylene pallet weighs 18.0 lb with ratings of 10,500 lb static, 3,100 lb dynamic and 2,700 lb racking, and is listed as ISPM 15 exempt. (nelsoncompany.com)
• That Nelson model lists about 60 pallets per stack and 1,800 per truck. (nelsoncompany.com)
• A used Nelson 48 x 40 x 6.3 in HDPE one-piece pallet weighs 49 lb with 30,000 lb static, 5,000 lb dynamic and 2,200 lb racking ratings. (nelsoncompany.com)
• The 48 x 40 in GMA pallet makes up about 30 percent of new US wood pallets. (en.wikipedia.org)
• FM 4996 passes a pallet if fire is controlled at 5.9 mm/min (0.15 GPM/ft2) within a 10-minute test of eight 1.2 m stacks. (iccsafe.org)
• UL 2335 has an idle pallet test and a commodity storage test. (iccsafe.org)
• Greystone Logistics processed about 60 million pounds of recycled plastic in the year ended May 31, 2024, using damaged plastic pallets from a buy-back program among its feedstock. (resource-recycling.com)
• In April 2017, HDPE HMW regrind from drums and IBCs was 24 to 27 cents per pound picked up in the US South (historical, not current). (resource-recycling.com)
• A 48 x 40 pallet fits 30 stacks in a turned pattern on a 53 ft dry van, per one supplier. (nelsoncompany.com)
• USDA NASS counted 931 refrigerated warehouses on October 1, 2025: 476 public and 455 private or semiprivate. Public warehouses held 2.46 billion gross cubic feet, 62 percent of the total. (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
• Pennsylvania had 228 million cubic feet and New Jersey 137 million of gross refrigerated warehouse space on October 1, 2025 (USDA NASS). (esmis.nal.usda.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)

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

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