New pallets and skids in Kansas
Meat packing defines Kansas’s pallet use: 19,716 processing jobs, four times the national concentration. Food manufacturing overall employs 37,772.
The warehousing is around Kansas City. Johnson County had 6,642 jobs and Wyandotte 6,378, together over half the state’s 21,158; Shawnee County, Topeka, adds 2,074. Refrigerated space totals 46 million cubic feet.
Pharmaceutical manufacturing employs 4,682, more than its size would suggest, and plastics 7,339. A Kansas buyer might need cold-chain pallets for beef, clean pallets for drug plants, or full-deck pallets for resin. See meat and poultry, pharmaceutical and plastics and bulk bags.
Illustrative imageWhere the pallets go
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Common footprint |
|---|---|---|
| Food manufacturing | 37,772 | 48 x 40 |
| Warehousing and storage | 21,158 | 48 x 40 |
| Meat and poultry processing | 19,716 | 48 x 40 |
| Plastics product manufacturing | 7,339 | Sized to the bag |
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 4,682 | 48 x 40 |
Private-sector jobs, BLS QCEW 2025.
Buying in Kansas
Kansas meat processing is 4.0 times the national concentration, and food manufacturing employs 37,772; boxed meat leaves on 48 x 40s with close decks. Warehousing sits around Kansas City, where Johnson County has 6,642 jobs and Wyandotte 6,378, so many Kansas deliveries go to the same metro as Missouri’s. Shawnee County, Topeka, adds 2,074 warehousing jobs, and pharmaceutical manufacturing employs 4,682. The state has 46 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space, much of it holding packed meat Johnson County distribution centers take the same 48 x 40s as those across the state line in Missouri, on the same terms. Kansas has 293 warehousing establishments, and auto parts makers employ 2,329.
Kansas buyers split between three very different loads: chilled beef, clean pharmaceuticals and resin in bulk bags. Each needs a different deck and lumber, so we write a separate spec for each and quote them together if you send them on one request. Add the weekly quantity for each.
Send the size, the load per pallet, the quantity and a Kansas delivery ZIP. We write the build down as a spec, quote new pallets against it with delivery priced in, and reorders follow the same sheet.
Quote new pallets for Kansas
Every pallet is quoted to a written spec, wherever the dock is. Give the delivery ZIP with the size, load and quantity.
- Delivery
- ZIP code in Kansas
- Pallet size
- Stringer length first
- Load weight
- Per pallet, in pounds
Not sure of a line? Leave it blank. Size, load weight and quantity are enough to start a quote.
The builds Kansas’s trades use
- Food and groceryThe 48 x 40 at its home: distribution centers, food plants and store docks, and why dry, clean lumber matters.
- Meat and poultryBoxed product into blast freezers: a close deck, dried lumber, one-way builds.
- Plastics and bulk bagsA full, smooth deck under resin bags that slump into any gap.
- PharmaceuticalClean, dry, documented pallets for audited warehouses.