Stretch wrap for Phoenix
The warehouse district between Sky Harbor airport and Tolleson wraps freight for the whole south-west, much of it bound west to California or east toward Texas on I-10. Those are long, hot runs, and film that went on tight at seven in the morning has to hold through an afternoon trailer. Store rolls in the coolest corner of the building, since hot rolls block and stretch unevenly, and test containment force on loads after the trip, not only at the wrapper. For pallets waiting in a sunny yard, white opaque film keeps the cartons cooler than black.
Who wraps pallets in Phoenix
Private jobs, BLS QCEW 2025.
- Warehousing and storage42,340
- Food manufacturing13,457
Most concentrated: warehousing and storage, 1.4 times its national share of employment.
Phoenix's warehouses are mostly on the west side of Maricopa County, with more going up in Pinal. Pallets staged outdoors in Phoenix summers age fast, so UV-inhibited or white film is worth asking about.
Films these loads usually take
Start here, then tell us the load.
- 20 in x 5,000 ft machine filmFor DC wrappers
- 80 gauge, cast or blownCases of food
- 18 in x 1,500 ft hand rollHand wrapping anywhere
Pallets staged outside for even a few days in summer can see the film go brittle. UV-inhibited film costs a little more and holds much longer in full sun.
Around Phoenix
The state page, and the other metros in it.
Sources
- BLS QCEW 2025 annual averages, warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, food manufacturing (NAICS 311) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- US Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023 (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- US Census Bureau, 2023 metropolitan area delineation files (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- Interstate 10 (Wikipedia) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, all private industries (reviewed 2026-11-12)
Facts on this page last reviewed 2026-11-12.
Ask for a stretch film quote in Phoenix
Requests here come mostly from distribution centres in the west valley, in Tolleson, Goodyear, Avondale and Glendale, and from warehouses near Sky Harbor. They should give the number of wrappers and whether rolls are stored in a cooled area. Food plants should say whether any loads leave refrigerated. Solar panels ship flat.
Put the Phoenix delivery ZIP first: the quote is made out for that dock.
- Step 1 asks what you need, how much a month, the delivery ZIP and how to reach you
- Step 2 asks the film, the width and the gauge; skip what you don't know