Lehigh Valley's Pallet Racking Experts

We serve all of Lehigh and Northampton counties — Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Whitehall, Emmaus, Macungie, Northampton, Nazareth, Bath, Hellertown, and the Upper Macungie logistics corridor through Fogelsville, Breinigsville, and Trexlertown. That includes the Route 512 Slate Belt through Pen Argyl and Wind Gap, Carbon County to the north, and the southern gateway down Route 663 and I-476 into Quakertown, which sits in Bucks County but buys like a Lehigh Valley market.

Yes. Pennsylvania enforces the Uniform Construction Code at the municipal level, so the reviewing office changes with the street address — the City of Allentown Bureau of Building Standards and Safety, the City of Bethlehem Bureau of Code Enforcement, the City of Easton Bureau of Codes and Inspections, and township offices such as Upper Macungie, Lower Macungie, Hanover, Bethlehem Township, Palmer, and Lower Nazareth, several of which run plan review through third-party code agencies. Our permit packages include stamped engineering drawings, ASCE 7 seismic and load calculations, and the IFC Chapter 32 high-piled combustible storage documentation the fire official will ask for.

Yes. The Fogelsville, Breinigsville, and Trexlertown corridor along I-78 and Route 100 is one of the densest concentrations of Class A distribution space in the Northeast, and those buildings behave differently than older Valley stock: 36-to-40-foot clear, post-tension slabs that require cable mapping before a single anchor is drilled, and ESFR sprinkler layouts that dictate flue space and rack depth. We build to that cube — taller selective, push-back, pallet flow, and very-narrow-aisle layouts — and we engineer the anchor pattern around the PT mapping, not around a catalog detail.

New rack costs 40–60% more than quality-certified used inventory but comes with full manufacturer warranties and standard engineering drawings. Used rack inspected to ANSI/RMI MH16.1 is safe for permitted installations and typically available in weeks rather than months. The Lehigh Valley's constant churn of warehouse tenants means good teardown inventory moves through this market regularly — we carry inspected used rack in stock and can quote both options for any project.

Most Lehigh Valley projects fall between $50 and $120 per pallet position installed for standard selective racking, depending on beam capacity, height, and whether you choose new or quality-certified used rack. A typical 1,000-position warehouse runs roughly $50,000–$120,000 installed, including engineering, permits, and anchoring. Tall-clear I-78 corridor buildings cost more per position in material but far less per pallet stored, because you are buying cube instead of floor. Used rack can cut material cost 40–60%. We provide fixed written quotes after a site visit.

Lehigh Valley Pallet Racking is the region's dedicated pallet racking specialist, serving Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, and every warehouse market across Lehigh and Northampton counties as a division of Alliance Material Handling, which has equipped mid-Atlantic warehouses for over 70 years. We handle the full scope in-house: engineering, permits, installation, inspection, and used-rack supply, with specific experience in I-78 corridor Class A distribution, Bethlehem Commerce Center fulfillment, food-grade and beverage production, and converted cement-belt and steel-era industrial buildings. Every install is OSHA and ANSI/RMI MH16.1 compliant.