Plastic pallets from chemical plants: what a load needs

What chemical plants use

48 x 48 pallets for four 55-gallon drums without overhang, 45 x 45 CP9 pallets for bags and boxes, often heavy-duty with sumps.

Why the pallets break or retire

Chemical resistance is why plastic is chosen. Wear, leaks and spills retire them. CP9 changes retire a whole footprint.

What a load from here needs

Say what the pallets carried. A residue of an unknown chemical is a stop. A drum pallet that held a benign material is a normal stream.

Photograph any staining and the drum seats. Then add the ZIP, the count and the footprint.

Where this industry is biggest

BLS counted 892,426 private jobs across 25,801 establishments in chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) in 2025. The states with the most jobs were Texas (90,310), California (75,499), Ohio (49,328), Illinois (48,745) and New Jersey (47,966).

Where chemical manufacturing sits among the thirteen

Of the thirteen industries on this site, chemical manufacturing ranks 3 by jobs, with 10.6% of the thirteen’s 8,423,298 combined jobs, and 11 by jobs per site, at 34.6 against 42.6 for all thirteen together. Big sites usually mean big piles and fewer, larger loads. Small sites mean more calls and smaller trailers.

Writing the request for chemical manufacturing

Name the plant type, the pallet size you hold and the count, give the pickup ZIP and say whether trucks can reach a dock. For chemical manufacturing, add what the pallets carried and whether they were washed, since that history shapes how a recycler grades the lot. Photographs of a typical pallet and of the pile make the reply faster and more exact.