Sell 36 x 36 plastic pallets

36 x 36 at a glance

Footprint

36 x 36 in (914 mm square)

Rank

Ninth most produced pallet size in the US (all materials)

What a buyer reads in a 36 x 36 lot

A 36 x 36 lot is a small-footprint lot, and a buyer reads it as such. It rarely fits the same rack or truck plan as a 48 x 40, so it is counted apart. Like 40 x 40, nothing here says how widely plastic is made in this size, and the desk makes no claim for it.

One supplier's size list puts the quarter pallet at 24 x 20, a promotions and point-of-sale display base. 36 x 36 is a full shipping footprint.

Who sells 36 x 36 pallets

• Food and beverageHow this industry's lot is read
• Distribution centersHow this industry's lot is read

Send this with a 36 x 36 lot

• Photos of one pallet and one stack
• Whether it is a display or a shipping pallet
• The count
• The ZIP

Put the footprint, the count and the ZIP into the pile sorter first. It rules the lot sold, returned or scrapped, then hands the same answers to the form below.

Words you will meet

Rackable

Rated to sit on rack beams, with a stated racking load.

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.

Injection moulding

Pallet made by forcing molten resin into a mould at high pressure.

Edge rack

Resting on the rack beams by the pallet's edges only, with no support in the middle.

Runners

Bottom rails that touch the floor or rack and carry the load.

Cruciform base

Bottom with a cross-shaped member as well as a perimeter, for strength and automated handling.

Fork pocket

Opening in the pallet where the forks go.

One-way pallet

A cheaper pallet shipped with the load and not expected back.

CP9

A chemical-industry pallet standard, 1140 x 1140 mm.

Regrind

Plastic ground from used or scrap parts into flakes for moulding again.

4-way entry

Forks or a jack can enter from all four sides.

2-way entry

Forks enter from two opposite sides only.

Structural foam

Low-pressure moulding where a blowing agent expands the resin in the mould.

Rotational moulding

Resin heated in a rotating mould to make a hollow jointless part.

Compression moulding

Moulding by pressing resin in a closed mould; one of six processes in use.

Who asks, and what they need

Warehouses with automated storage

Rackable pallets with a stated rack rating, cruciform base, consistent size for conveyors.

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.

Export shippers

Light or low-cost one-way pallets with no ISPM 15 treatment; Euro 1200 x 800 and 1200 x 1000 sizes.

What the sources say

• Census Bureau: seasonally adjusted e-commerce sales were $340.2 billion, 17.1 percent of total retail sales, in the second quarter of 2026 (released August 18, 2026). (census.gov)
• Freezing can make some pallet materials brittle and reduce performance. (nelsoncompany.com)
• Rehrig Pacific's heavy-duty nestable can be made with post-consumer or post-industrial recycled material, up to 30 percent in black and up to 10 percent in colour, and is RFID compatible. (rehrigpacific.com)
• Private employers in the US averaged 521,212 jobs across 6,414 establishments in motor vehicle parts manufacturing (NAICS 3363) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Michigan (111,465), Ohio (62,025), Indiana (52,146), Tennessee (38,791), Kentucky (32,261). (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)
• Private employers in the US averaged 575,006 jobs across 12,344 establishments in plastics product manufacturing (NAICS 3261) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Ohio (42,286), Texas (40,945), California (35,933), Pennsylvania (34,094), Indiana (33,122). (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)
• UL 2335 has an idle pallet test and a commodity storage test. (iccsafe.org)
• Resin identification codes do not indicate whether a product is recyclable; ASTM D7611 governs the coding. (en.wikipedia.org)
• The 800 x 1200 mm Euro footprint is the second most popular plastic pallet size worldwide. (blog.containerexchanger.com)
• 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)
• USDA NASS counted 3.99 billion cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse capacity in the US on October 1, 2025, with usable capacity of 3.25 billion cubic feet (82 percent of gross). (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
• 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)
• 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)
• Port Houston says it supports 1.54 million jobs in Texas and 3.37 million nationwide, and that its 2025 growth included petrochemical and industrial shipments, manufacturing-related freight and consumer imports. (porthouston.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)

More questions sellers ask

• Wikipedia: Pallet
• Container Exchanger: plastic pallet dimensions

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