Plastic bulk containers in Minnesota

Minnesota's food industry is large and varied: 47,829 jobs in food manufacturing in 2025, with 17,525 in meat and poultry, mostly turkey and pork, 5,085 in dairy and 4,721 in fruit and vegetable preserving, much of it sweet corn and peas from the south of the state. USDA counted 105 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space here.

Those plants ask for solid-wall bins that can be washed, rated for coolers and sometimes for freezers, with lids for storage. Turkey processors in particular move a great deal of product in combo bins.

Plastics adds 14,511 jobs and pharmaceutical manufacturing 5,458. Hennepin County around Minneapolis had 3,616 warehousing jobs. Minneapolis-St. Paul is near the northern end of I-35, so loops from here to Iowa, Kansas City and Texas run down one road.

Minnesota's winters are long and cold enough that bins stored outside, or in unheated storage, will be handled at well below freezing. Polyethylene stays flexible in the cold; polypropylene becomes brittle and can crack when a fork bumps it, so ask which resin a model uses. Turkey processing is a big industry here, more than in any other state, and those plants in Willmar, Melrose and Pelican Rapids need washable bins. Sugar beets from the Red River Valley on the North Dakota line and potatoes from the same area are stored over winter in vented bins. Medical device makers around the Twin Cities ask for clean lidded bins.

Minnesota buyers include turkey plants, sugar beet and potato storages, and medical device makers wanting clean lidded bins.