Stretch wrap for the Inland Empire
With wrappers running all day, the numbers that matter here are yield and downtime: how many pallets a roll wraps, and how often film breaks on the carriage. A cast machine roll stretched hard is the usual start; if it breaks on mixed loads, blown film or a lower pre-stretch setting is the fix. Summer heat in the valley also means rolls should be kept out of hot trailers before use.
Who wraps pallets in the Inland Empire
Private jobs, BLS QCEW 2025.
- Warehousing and storage118,368
- Grocery and related product wholesale13,219
- Plastics product manufacturing8,907
- Refrigerated warehousing (counties BLS discloses)1,565
Most concentrated: warehousing and storage, 5.9 times its national share of employment.
The Inland Empire's DCs sit in Ontario, Chino, Mira Loma and Fontana, behind the San Pedro Bay ports along I-10. Machine film by the pallet is the everyday buy here, with hand film for mixed outbound loads.
Films these loads usually take
Start here, then tell us the load.
- 20 in x 5,000 ft machine filmFor DC wrappers
- Blown hand filmMixed store orders
- 30 in machine filmTall, light loads
- Vented filmFrozen loads going to warm docks
- 18 in x 1,500 ft hand rollHand wrapping anywhere
Large DCs often run several wrappers. Put the same film and settings on each, then compare pallets per roll machine by machine; the outlier usually needs servicing, not new film.
Around the Inland Empire
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, grocery and related product wholesale (NAICS 4244) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, plastics product manufacturing (NAICS 3261) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, refrigerated warehousing (NAICS 49312) (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 the Inland Empire
Most requests here come from large distribution centres in Ontario, Fontana, Rialto, Perris and Moreno Valley with several wrappers each. Give the number of wrappers and the rolls each uses a month, so the quote can plan pallets of film rather than odd rolls.
Put the the Inland Empire 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