Pallet Manufacturers in Los Angeles: What Is Built to Order and What Ships From Stock

Among pallet manufacturers in Los Angeles, our East 78th Street yard builds custom size pallets and custom crate boxes to order (3-5 business days simple, up to 7-10 complex) and delivers standard block sizes from stock, often the same week. Free delivery starts at 100 pallets.

Built to order vs delivered from stock

What you need	How it is supplied	Time or availability
Custom size pallets	Built to order at the yard, 12x12 up to 96x48 and beyond	3-5 business days for a simple size; 7-10 when the order is large, reinforced or heat treated
Custom crate boxes	Built to order at the yard	3-5 business days; 5-10 if bracing, foam or ISPM-15 lumber is added
Prototypes	Built to order, single units accepted	No strict minimum on custom work
Standard block pallets	From stock: 48x40, 42x42, 36x36, 48x48, 48x36, 48x42, 40x40	Commonly delivered the same week
Euro pallets (EPAL)	From stock; 800 x 1200 mm, made under the EPAL licensing system	Call for availability
Plastic pallets	From available stock	Call for stock
Heat treatment (ISPM-15)	Available on standard and custom sizes	7-10 business days on a custom build
Free delivery	100 pallets or more	Fee by distance below 100

The usual story behind a search for pallet manufacturers in Los Angeles: a vendor could not do a size off its list, or a standard order is running late, and somebody in purchasing decides to call the people who build the thing.

That instinct is sound, with one catch. A yard that builds does not put every order through a build, and the table above shows where our own split falls.

Two Reasons People Look for Pallet Manufacturers in Los Angeles

If you searched for a pallet manufacturer near me from a dock in Los Angeles County, you are probably one of two buyers. The first needs a build. The load is an HVAC unit, a stack of solar panels or a steel coil, its footprint or weight is outside anything on a stock list, and the pallet has to be made for it. For this buyer a builder is the only route.

The second needs standard pallets, in volume, soon, and assumes that going to the source is the shortest path. This buyer is not waiting on a build at all. The order is inventory and a truck.

Which of the two you are decides what to ask for. Each answer runs on a different clock.

What We Build to Order at the Yard

Two product lines are built from scratch at the yard, against your dimensions.

Custom Size Pallets

Our custom size pallets start at 12x12 inches and run past 96x48. The requests fall into four kinds: oversized platforms such as 60x48, 72x48 or 96x48, built with thicker lumber and more support blocks; small specialty pallets; reinforced heavy-duty builds using thicker deck boards, added blocks or stringers and hardwood; and flush-deck or reversible pallets. A plain change of dimensions is 3 to 5 business days. A larger order, reinforcement or heat treatment moves the window to 7 to 10, and a rush is often possible.

There is no strict minimum on pallets built to order, so a single prototype is an order we accept: one unit your own forklift can lift tells you more than a drawing does. Before you send a spec, read the six things a custom pallet spec needs. If you are not sure the load needs a build at all, when a load actually needs a custom pallet settles that first.

Custom Crate Boxes

When the piece needs walls, it is a crate. Our custom crate boxes come out of the same yard and close the item in on all six sides. Solid lumber is for heavy or oversized items, plywood panel crates are lighter and cost less, and a combination of lumber framing and plywood panels is the most common build. A standard crate is ready in 3 to 5 business days. Bracing, foam or ISPM-15 lumber for export stretches that to 5 to 10.

For either line, what you send us is a build request. That means dimensions, weight, quantity and the date.

What Leaves From Stock

If all you need is 48x40, you are not really shopping for pallet manufacturers in Los Angeles. You are shopping for stock and a truck. Everything on this list is on hand, or one call confirms it.

• Standard block pallets in 48x40, 42x42, 36x36, 48x48, 48x36, 48x42 and 40x40: in stock, ready for delivery and commonly on your dock the same week.
• Euro pallets, 800 x 1200 mm: in stock, call for availability. A genuine EPAL pallet is manufactured under EPAL’s licensing and audit system, and we supply it as a stocked item.
• Plastic pallets in HDPE or polypropylene: available, call for stock.
• Heat treated pallets (ISPM-15) for export: available in every standard size, call for details.

The request to make here is a different one: size, quantity, delivery address, receiving hours and the day you need the truck. For the sizes in stock there is no build time to wait out. On volume, count matters: delivery costs nothing from 100 pallets up and carries a modest, distance-based fee below that.

Builder, Stocking Yard, Broker: Who Does What

Three kinds of business turn up when you look for pallet builders in Los Angeles, each right for a different need. A builder makes pallets or crates to a drawing. What you get is a dimension or a strength nobody stocks, and what you spend is build time.

A stocking yard holds standard sizes and moves them on trucks; its product is availability. A broker takes the order and places it with a builder or a yard, which can suit a company buying for several regions through one contact.

We are not a middleman. The yard is ours, custom pallets and crate boxes are built on it, and the delivery trucks are ours too. In the terms above that makes us the first two at one address: a custom pallet manufacturer for anything built to order, and a stocking yard for the standard lines.

One question sorts out pallet manufacturers in Los Angeles, stocking yards and brokers alike: for the product I need, do you build it or stock it, and how long does each take? Whether that vendor is a yard or a broker, and how near it really is, is covered in what near means for a pallet supplier.

Where the Yard Is and How Orders Reach You

The yard is at 1160 East 78th Street in Florence, the South LA district just south of Vernon. Hours run 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Saturday. Orders leave on our own trucks, with a flatbed as the standard for large ones.

Distance sets the timing. Vernon is less than two miles away. Along with Commerce and Downtown LA, it can get same-day emergency delivery; elsewhere in the service area, same-week delivery is the standard. Farther east, City of Industry and the San Gabriel Valley are reached by the I-10 and the 60 Freeway, and City of Industry itself gets multiple deliveries a week.

The whole order, from first quote to final delivery, can be handled in English or in Spanish, on two separate phone lines. If comparing pallet manufacturers in Los Angeles is what brought you here, decide first which column of the table your order belongs in, then call and say so.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you build pallets or deliver them from stock?

Both, depending on the product. Custom size pallets and custom crate boxes are built to order at our East 78th Street yard. Standard block sizes and Euro pallets are delivered from stock; for plastic pallets, call for stock.

How long does a built-to-order pallet take?

A simple custom size takes 3-5 business days. Plan on 7-10 for a larger order, a reinforced build or heat treatment. A rush is often possible; ask when you call.

I only need standard 48x40 pallets. Do I need a manufacturer?

No. Standard block sizes are in stock and commonly delivered within the same week. Ask for the size, the quantity and a delivery day.

What do you need from me for a stock order, and what for a build?

For a stock order: size, quantity, delivery address, receiving hours and the day you need the truck. For a build: dimensions, weight, quantity and the date.