Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Green Bay

Green Bay, by road

Geography first: the Fox River and I-41 tie the Green Bay area to Milwaukee and the dairy and paper mills of northeast Wisconsin. That is the setting for a pallet buyer in the Green Bay area of Wisconsin.

Dairy product manufacturing is where this area is most concentrated, at 9.5 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Brown, Kewaunee and Oconto county.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 22 establishments between them. Green Bay (54304) leads with 9, 40.9 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Brown County has 584 warehousing jobs, 100.0 percent of the 584 in the Green Bay area.
• Green Bay (54311) has 5 fewer warehousing establishments than Green Bay (54304), 4 against 9.
• Green Bay (54313) has 6 fewer warehousing establishments than Green Bay (54304), 3 against 9.
• Oconto Falls (54154) has 6 fewer warehousing establishments than Green Bay (54304), 3 against 9.
• De Pere (54115) has 6 fewer warehousing establishments than Green Bay (54304), 3 against 9.
• Brown County's 584 is 1.8 percent of all 33,054 warehousing jobs in Wisconsin.
• ZIP 54304 in Green Bay ranks number 1 of the five, with 9 warehousing establishments, 40.9 percent of their combined total and 3.00 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 54311 in Green Bay ranks number 2 of the five, with 4 warehousing establishments, 18.2 percent of their combined total and 1.33 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 54313 in Green Bay ranks number 3 of the five, with 3 warehousing establishments, 13.6 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 54154 in Oconto Falls ranks number 4 of the five, with 3 warehousing establishments, 13.6 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 54115 in De Pere ranks number 5 of the five, with 3 warehousing establishments, 13.6 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Dairy product manufacturing employs 1,867 in the area (partial), 3.20 for every warehousing job.
• Meat and poultry processing employs 4,104 in the area (partial), 7.03 for every warehousing job.
• Food manufacturing employs 9,132 in the area, 15.64 for every warehousing job.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 1,484 in the area (partial), 2.54 for every warehousing job.
• Wisconsin's dairy product manufacturing employment, 28,840, is 49.38 times the Green Bay area's warehousing jobs.
• Wisconsin's fruit and vegetable preserving employment, 11,014, is 18.86 times the Green Bay area's warehousing jobs.
• Wisconsin's plastics product manufacturing employment, 29,656, is 50.78 times the Green Bay area's warehousing jobs.
• Wisconsin's food manufacturing employment, 81,993, is 140.40 times the Green Bay area's warehousing jobs.
• Milwaukee, also in Wisconsin, has 8,262 warehousing jobs, 14.15 times Green Bay's.

Who ships pallets here

In Green Bay, dairy product manufacturing employs 1,867 (a partial count). Cold storage and frequent washing are the two things a dairy buyer asks the maker to confirm for the exact model. It tends to lean on stackable or nestable in a cold-friendly resin, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the maker's cold performance and wash guidance.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 22 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Green Bay sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 11,000 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.

In its state

Among the 2 metros of Wisconsin that have a page here, Green Bay ranks number 2 by warehousing jobs.

Green Bay holds 1.8 percent of Wisconsin's 33,054 private warehousing jobs. See the Wisconsin page for the whole state.

Other metros in Wisconsin with their own page: Milwaukee.

Words on this page

Drayage

The short haul of a container between a port or rail ramp and a warehouse.

Reefer

A refrigerated trailer or container.

Dunnage

Loose material used to support or secure cargo inside a trailer or container.

Intermodal

Freight that changes between truck, rail and ship in the same container.

ZIP Code Business Patterns

A Census Bureau series that counts establishments by ZIP code and industry.

Bulk bag

A large woven bag, often sold as a Super Sack, that holds a ton or so of powder or granules and sits on a square pallet.

Location quotient

A place's share of employment in a trade divided by the national share. Above 1 means the trade is more concentrated there than average.

Dock door

The opening where a trailer backs to a building so pallets can be loaded and unloaded.

2-way entry

A pallet that can be lifted from only two opposite sides.