Stretch wrap for Indianapolis
The metro mixes two demanding buyers. Medicine makers want clear cast film, labels on the outside and sometimes opaque film to hide valuable cartons; their loads are light and square, so a light gauge usually holds. The Plainfield and Whitestown distribution centres west and north of the city wrap high volumes of retail freight on turntables, where film yield and break rates decide the buy. Midwest winters add a seasonal check: rolls stored cold lose stretch until they warm.
Who wraps pallets in Indianapolis
Private jobs, BLS QCEW 2025.
- Warehousing and storage (counties BLS discloses)41,067
- Chemical manufacturing (counties BLS discloses)18,829
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing (counties BLS discloses)16,345
Most concentrated: pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, 6.4 times its national share of employment.
Boone and Hendricks counties, west and north-west of the city, hold most Indianapolis DCs. Clear cast film suits cartons of medicines, and machine film by the pallet suits the DCs.
Films these loads usually take
Start here, then tell us the load.
- 20 in x 5,000 ft machine filmFor DC wrappers
- 100 gaugeDrums and pails
- Clear cast filmCartons that must scan
- 18 in x 1,500 ft hand rollHand wrapping anywhere
Cartons of medicines often go to clean receiving areas. Choose a film that cuts cleanly and leaves no loose tails or dust, and say so in the request. Ask whether the customer wants a coloured film to mark priority loads; it saves a scan at receiving.
Around Indianapolis
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, chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing (NAICS 3254) (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 65 (Wikipedia) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- Interstate 70 (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 Indianapolis
Requests here split between pharmaceutical sites on the north and east sides and distribution centres in Plainfield, Whitestown and Greenwood. Pharmaceutical shippers should say whether labels must scan through the film; distribution centres should give wrapper counts. Many buyers have docks in both kinds of building, and one request can cover them.
Put the Indianapolis 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