Stretch wrap for Atlanta
Atlanta's warehouses split two ways. South-side DCs near the airport and along I-75 wrap retail and e-commerce cartons all day on machine wrappers; there, a lighter film stretched further usually pays. Food and grocery distributors wrap mixed store orders that lean and shift, where blown film and more top turns help. Humid summers make tail-tucking matter: a loose tail lifts in damp air and the wrap can unwind in transit.
Who wraps pallets in Atlanta
Private jobs, BLS QCEW 2025.
- Warehousing and storage (counties BLS discloses)49,050
- Food manufacturing (counties BLS discloses)22,288
Most concentrated: warehousing and storage, 1.4 times its national share of employment.
Atlanta's DCs follow I-75 and I-85 through Fulton, Henry and Cobb. Expect import cartons, grocery and poultry, and the films that go with them: machine film for the DCs, cold-rated film for the poultry.
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
Store-bound grocery pallets are built one case at a time and come out uneven. Wrap the base firmly first, then climb, and tuck the tail so pickers at the store can find it.
Around Atlanta
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 75 (Wikipedia) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- Interstate 85 (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 Atlanta
Requests here come from distribution centres around McDonough, Fairburn, Union City and the airport, and from food plants across the metro. List each dock's ZIP and whether wrapping happens in a cooler, since Georgia poultry often reaches Atlanta warehouses chilled. Beverage bottlers and the region's large grocery distributors add heavy pallets to the mix. Peachtree City and Newnan add manufacturers to the south-western side of the metro, and their pallets of parts and packaged goods join the same truck routes.
Put the Atlanta 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