Plastic pallets delivered in Utah

A crossroads in the desert

Salt Lake City is where three interstates meet. I-15 runs north-south from Idaho through Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo to St. George and Las Vegas. I-80 crosses east-west from Wyoming over Parleys Summit, through the city and out across the salt flats to Wendover and Reno. I-84 leaves I-15 near Ogden for Boise and the Northwest.

Union Pacific runs an intermodal terminal in Salt Lake City, and the city sits on the UP main line between Oakland and the Midwest. Because Salt Lake is within a day's drive of most western metros, retailers and parcel carriers have built large distribution buildings on the west side of the valley.

The state has set up the Utah Inland Port Authority to develop logistics land in the northwest quadrant of Salt Lake City near the airport and I-80. Warehouses there receive West Coast imports by rail and truck and send them back out across the region.

What Utah ships on plastic

Southwest of Salt Lake City, Kennecott's Bingham Canyon copper mine and its smelter draw a steady flow of reagents, liners and spare parts, much of it in drums and totes. Utah County, around Provo, Orem and Lehi, has grown a technology and consumer-products corridor whose makers ship cartons out through valley warehouses.

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Supplements, devices and clean floors

Utah has one of the largest concentrations of dietary supplement makers in the country, many of them in Salt Lake and Utah counties. Those plants follow FDA current good manufacturing practice rules for supplements, and auditors look at what touches the floor of a production area.

A plastic pallet with a smooth, closed deck is easier to keep clean than wood, and it doesn't shed splinters or nails. Several medical device makers also run plants in the Salt Lake valley, where the same reasoning applies to finished-goods areas.

Smooth-deck pharmaceutical and cleanroom pallets are usually lighter duty than rackables. Check the dynamic load on the maker's sheet against your heaviest drum or case.

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Cache Valley dairies and Ogden plants

The Cache Valley around Logan is Utah's dairy country, with cheese and milk plants that wash down daily. Ogden and the Davis County cities to its south hold food plants, aerospace suppliers near Hill Air Force Base, and more warehousing on I-15.

For a dairy or cheese room, ask for HDPE and a solid deck. HDPE handles the cold of a cooler without turning brittle, and a solid deck keeps product off the water that collects in an open grid.

Box Elder County, north of Ogden, hosts rocket motor work at Promontory and a steel minimill at Plymouth. Closer in, the Freeport Center at Clearfield, a former military depot turned industrial park, holds dozens of manufacturers and warehouses on rail spurs beside I-15.

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Delivery across the state

Truckloads ride a 53-foot dry van to your dock. A nestable model stacks far denser than a rackable, so the count per trailer varies by model; the guide to trailer loads walks through the math.

LTL carriers serve the Wasatch Front often. St. George, Moab, Price and the Uintah Basin are farther from the terminals and take longer. Parleys Summit and the I-80 climb into Wyoming see winter storms that can delay freight from the east. Logan and Cedar City sit on separate LTL schedules, so quote them as their own drops if one order serves several Utah sites.

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Selling surplus from a Utah warehouse

DC moves and product changes leave idle pallets on the floor. Send the count, footprint, resin code if it's molded in, condition and pickup ZIP. We reply with an offer for reusable pallets or for regrind.