Plastic bulk containers in New Jersey

New Jersey is pharmaceuticals and the port. Pharmaceutical manufacturing had 30,062 jobs in 2025, 3.1 times the national share, and chemicals another 47,966. Those plants ask for lidded bins with a written resin and colour statement, and liners for powders.

The Port of New York and New Jersey was the second-busiest US port for loaded containers in 2025, and the warehouses behind it are some of the densest anywhere. Middlesex County had 26,309 warehousing jobs, and Edison's 08817 has more warehousing establishments than any other ZIP in Northern New Jersey. Warehousing statewide had 76,152 jobs, and refrigerated warehousing 5,388.

Grocery wholesale had 38,127 jobs and food manufacturing 43,231, with 137 million cubic feet of cold storage. Burlington and Gloucester counties in the south add 10,713 and 9,948 warehousing jobs along the New Jersey Turnpike toward Philadelphia.

Northern New Jersey's warehouses, around Port Newark and Elizabeth and down the Turnpike to Exit 8A near Cranbury, are some of the busiest in the country, handling imports for the whole Northeast. Land is scarce and costly, so a container that folds when empty saves rent. South Jersey grows blueberries and cranberries in the Pine Barrens, and tomatoes, peppers and peaches farther west; growers there use harvest bins. The pharmaceutical industry, long based in central New Jersey, asks for lidded bins with documented, food-grade or clean resin.

New Jersey buyers include port warehouses, blueberry and cranberry growers and pharmaceutical plants.