Plastic pallets from dairies: what a load needs

What dairies use

Hygienic 48 x 40 pallets in HDPE or PP, closed deck, easy to wash, used through chill rooms and dispatch.

Why the pallets break or retire

Cold-room cycles and wash chemistry. Dairy residue and milk fats cling to textured decks. Pallets are replaced on a schedule or when a crack harbours residue.

What a load from here needs

Say if pallets were washed with strong chemicals. Say if any are coloured to mark zones. Dairies often retire sets of one colour.

Photograph the colour code and any cracks. Then add the ZIP, the count and the footprint.

Where this industry is biggest

BLS counted 168,222 private jobs across 2,809 establishments in dairy product manufacturing (NAICS 3115) in 2025. The states with the most jobs were Wisconsin (28,840), California (18,374), New York (11,603), Ohio (8,963) and Texas (7,529).

Where dairy product manufacturing sits among the thirteen

Of the thirteen industries on this site, dairy product manufacturing ranks 12 by jobs, with 2.0% of the thirteen’s 8,423,298 combined jobs, and 5 by jobs per site, at 59.9 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 dairy product 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 dairy product 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.