Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, by road

I-15 and I-80 meet along the Wasatch Front, with I-215 looping the valley. Salt Lake City is counted here as the metropolitan area in Utah that the Census Bureau delineates, and its pallet traffic is set by that geography.

Food manufacturing is where this area is most concentrated, at 0.8 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Salt Lake and Tooele county.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 91 establishments between them. Salt Lake City (84104) leads with 54, 59.3 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Salt Lake County has 6,623 warehousing jobs, 100.0 percent of the 6,623 in the Salt Lake City area.
• West Valley City (84119) has 41 fewer warehousing establishments than Salt Lake City (84104), 13 against 54.
• Salt Lake City (84116) has 42 fewer warehousing establishments than Salt Lake City (84104), 12 against 54.
• West Valley City (84120) has 48 fewer warehousing establishments than Salt Lake City (84104), 6 against 54.
• West Jordan (84081) has 48 fewer warehousing establishments than Salt Lake City (84104), 6 against 54.
• Salt Lake County's 6,623 is 48.4 percent of all 13,683 warehousing jobs in Utah.
• ZIP 84104 in Salt Lake City ranks number 1 of the five, with 54 warehousing establishments, 59.3 percent of their combined total and 9.00 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 84119 in West Valley City ranks number 2 of the five, with 13 warehousing establishments, 14.3 percent of their combined total and 2.17 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 84116 in Salt Lake City ranks number 3 of the five, with 12 warehousing establishments, 13.2 percent of their combined total and 2.00 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 84120 in West Valley City ranks number 4 of the five, with 6 warehousing establishments, 6.6 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 84081 in West Jordan ranks number 5 of the five, with 6 warehousing establishments, 6.6 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Food manufacturing employs 7,325 in the area, 1.11 for every warehousing job.
• Warehousing and storage employs 6,623 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Utah's dairy product manufacturing employment, 4,388, is 0.66 times the Salt Lake City area's warehousing jobs.
• Utah's pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employment, 7,842, is 1.18 times the Salt Lake City area's warehousing jobs.

Who ships pallets here

In Salt Lake City-Murray, food manufacturing employs 7,325. The buyer here is usually a plant or sanitation manager, and the questions are cleaning, deck type and what paperwork comes with the model. It tends to lean on nestable or stackable that washes down, open or closed deck by product, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documentation, since FDA does not approve pallet models.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 91 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Salt Lake City sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 72,800 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 1 metros of Utah that have a page here, Salt Lake City ranks number 1 by warehousing jobs.

Salt Lake City holds 48.4 percent of Utah's 13,683 private warehousing jobs. See the Utah page for the whole state.

Interstates serving the area: I-80.

Words on this page

QCEW

The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, a Bureau of Labor Statistics count of jobs and establishments taken from unemployment insurance records.

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.

Beam span

The open gap between two rack beams. The longer the span, the lower the load the pallet can carry across it.

Reefer

A refrigerated trailer or container.

RFID tag

A small radio tag moulded into or attached to a pallet so readers can track it through a plant or a loop.

2-way entry

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

3PL

A third-party logistics company that stores and ships goods for other businesses.

UL

Underwriters Laboratories, a safety testing body that publishes fire test standards, including one for storage pallets.

Stretch wrap

Elastic film wound around a loaded pallet to hold the load together.