Stretch wrap for Los Angeles
Food and grocery plants in the basin ship heavy square cases on tight schedules to stores, and the port-side warehouses in Carson, Wilmington and the Alameda corridor rewrap container cargo. Both are mostly machine film work. Tortilla, bakery and produce operations add loads that need air, where vented film fits. Coastal humidity is mild; the main storage rule is to keep rolls out of direct sun.
Who wraps pallets in Los Angeles
Private jobs, BLS QCEW 2025.
Most concentrated: grocery and related product wholesale, 1.3 times its national share of employment.
In the basin, warehouses cluster in the south-east, in Santa Fe Springs, Commerce and Vernon, and around the ports. Food plants and grocery wholesalers ship heavy, square cases, and cast machine film suits them.
Films these loads usually take
Start here, then tell us the load.
- 80 gauge, cast or blownCases of food
- Blown hand filmMixed store orders
- 20 in x 5,000 ft machine filmFor DC wrappers
- 18 in x 1,500 ft hand rollHand wrapping anywhere
Port cargo arrives on film wrapped overseas, often poorly. Rewrap import loads before they go out to stores, and keep a hand roll by the receiving door for quick repairs. Check the base of an import pallet first: that is where long sea crossings loosen a wrap.
Around Los Angeles
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)
- BLS QCEW 2025, grocery and related product wholesale (NAICS 4244) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- Port of Los Angeles, November 2025 cargo release (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- Container News, "Port of Long Beach moves nearly 9.9 million TEUs in 2025" (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)
- 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 Los Angeles
Requests from the basin often come from older warehouses with tight docks in Vernon, Commerce and Santa Fe Springs. Mention dock access and whether a full trailer can be received, as well as the film.
Put the Los Angeles 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