The Fastmarkets service offers market prices for new and recycled (Grade A & B) softwood pallets across six major U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, New York, and Seattle.
LONDON, October 2025 – Fastmarkets, a global leader in price reporting and market intelligence, has launched its US wood pallet prices, news and analytics service. The company calls it the first comprehensive solution providing transparent pricing and forecasts for this critical but underserved part of the logistics sector.
Wood pallets are crucial to supply chains, moving goods across industries from food and beverage to retail, consumer goods and manufacturing. Yet supply chain leaders have long faced challenges, including price volatility, disconnects between lumber costs and pallet prices, unpredictable shortages and the absence of reliable benchmarks or forecasts.
Fastmarkets’ new launch directly addresses these challenges by providing independent reference pricing, market insights and city-level price forecasts for new pallets in six key markets. For the first time, procurement and supply chain professionals can integrate pallet data into their budgeting and planning processes to anticipate costs, avoid disruption and build resilience into logistics networks.
“Millions of pallets move through US supply chains every day, yet buyers have had no independent data to manage costs or anticipate risk,” said Fastmarkets CEO Raju Daswani. “With decades of expertise in North American lumber markets, Fastmarkets is uniquely positioned to deliver the trusted intelligence supply chain leaders need to plan with confidence.”
The launch delivers market prices for new and recycled (Grade A & B) softwood pallets across six major US hubs: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, New York, and Seattle.
Forward-looking analytics, including pallet price forecasts and supply/demand dynamics are now available on the Fastmarkets platform.
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading PRA and information provider for the agriculture, forest products, metals, carbon, and energy transition commodities markets. It serves its customers with commodity benchmark prices and assessments, forecasts, analytics, insights, news, and events. Its data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management.
Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating from 1865 and is built on trust and deep market expertise. It has more than 850 employees spread across several global locations, including the UK, US, China, Singapore, Brazil, Bulgaria, Belgium, Ukraine, and Finland.
Fastmarkets is a privately held UK-registered company owned by its shareholders and Astorg, a European private equity firm.
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