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These buyers compare resin and deck design directly, and ask for the nest figure so they can price the empty return. It tends to lean on nestable or stackable in the plant's own footprint, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about static load and whether the model is built for conveyors or automation.",{"h2":85,"blocks":86},"The empty return",[87,89],{"t":10,"text":88},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 14 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Hagerstown sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 11,200 pallets. 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