Stretch wrap for Arkansas
Poultry plants run long shifts on machine wrappers in cold, wet rooms. Film that clings to damp cartons, tolerates the cold and stretches consistently matters more here than the cheapest price per roll. The Benton County corner of the state, home to a large retailer's suppliers and their warehouses, wraps a great deal of mixed retail freight too, usually on lighter machine film.
Who wraps pallets in Arkansas
Private jobs statewide, BLS QCEW 2025.
- Food manufacturing51,799
- Meat and poultry processing34,773
- Warehousing and storage15,624
- Plastics product manufacturing6,804
- Fruit and vegetable preserving4,153
- Motor vehicle parts manufacturing3,586
- Refrigerated warehousing1,941
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing464
Most concentrated: meat and poultry processing, 7.5 times its national share of employment.
Little Rock, the north-west around Bentonville, and Crittenden County across the river from Memphis are where Arkansas stores and ships. Poultry plants send boxed and frozen product, so cold-rated machine film and vented film carry most of the load.
Films these loads usually take
Start here, then tell us the load.
- 80 gauge, cast or blownCases of food
- Cold-rated machine filmBoxed and frozen meat
- 20 in x 5,000 ft machine filmFor DC wrappers
- 30 in machine filmTall, light loads
- Netting and vented filmFresh produce
- VCI and anti-static filmBare metal and electronics
Poultry and frozen cartons need firm base wraps: a frozen stack is slippery, and the base turns are what keep it on the pallet when a truck brakes.
Nearby states
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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)
- BLS QCEW 2025, meat and poultry processing (NAICS 3116) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, plastics product manufacturing (NAICS 3261) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, fruit and vegetable preserving (NAICS 3114) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, motor vehicle parts manufacturing (NAICS 3363) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, refrigerated warehousing (NAICS 49312) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing (NAICS 3254) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- USDA NASS, Capacity of Refrigerated Warehouses, October 1, 2025 (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 Arkansas
Poultry plants in the north-west and along the Arkansas River, and the distribution centres near Bentonville and Little Rock, are the main buyers. Plants should list cold-room and dry-dock wrapping separately. Rice mills in the Delta ship bagged rice, which slumps like any sacked load. Timber yards in the south of the state ship lumber bundles.
Put the Arkansas 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