Buy / New
New pallets built to your spec sheet
New pallets are built from all-new lumber to a spec sheet: size, deck boards, stringers and fasteners. Send the product weight and footprint and say how many a week.
What a spec sheet has to say
A new pallet is not pulled from a pile. It is made to a description, so the description is the whole job. Anyone building to your sheet needs at least these:
- Footprint
- Length by width in inches, with the stringer direction. 48 x 40 is the standard; others are on the size chart.
- Load
- The heaviest unit, in pounds, and whether it rides on the pallet statically in racking or dynamically on a forklift.
- Deck
- Top and bottom board counts and widths. This sets deck coverage; small cartons need more of it.
- Frame
- Stringer or block. A block pallet can be entered from all four sides; a stringer pallet can be notched for four-way entry.
- Treatment
- Plain, or heat treated and stamped under ISPM 15 if it will be exported.
A standard 48 x 40 wood pallet is quoted at a static capacity of about 3 short tons and a dynamic capacity of about 1 short ton by PHS. That is a starting point; the lumber, nails and design decide the real number.
When new beats used or combo
Pick new when the pallet is part of the product: a heavy HVAC unit that will sit on it in a warehouse, a customer with a written specification, or an unusual footprint you cannot find in a sorted stack. Johnson Controls' Norman plant, a 900,000-square-foot rooftop HVAC site, is the kind of operation where load, not appearance, drives the choice.
Pick a combo pallet when the load is moderate and you want an even, rebuilt pallet at a lower cost. Pick used when the pallet is a one-way carrier and appearance is secondary.
Which metro plants buy new
The plants most likely to specify new pallets sit down I-35 in Moore and Norman, where HVAC and equipment shipping is concentrated, and at aerospace suppliers around Tinker Air Force Base, which employs about 26,000 (Chamber list, October 2025). Out east, Shawnee's mills and plastics plants buy one size at a time. They are the sort of dock whose freight calls for a built pallet. See HVAC and equipment for the load problems.
Send the sheet
Attach or describe the specification in the request, along with a count and the rhythm you need it on. If you do not have a sheet, the product's weight and dimensions are enough to start from. Custom footprints go through custom pallets.
Questions, answered
Can new pallets be heat treated?
Yes. If the pallet will be exported, say so in the request and see heat-treated pallets.
Sources, last reviewed 2026-11-12
Send the request
One form covers buying, selling and clearing. Start with the basics; more detail is optional afterwards.