Bristol and Falls Township: totes in and out of Lower Bucks
Bristol and Falls Township is Lower Bucks on the Delaware: emulsion polymers and resins at Dow’s 800-acre Bristol Township plant, and the Keystone Trade Center on the old Fairless Works site.
01What sits here
The Bristol Township plant has made chemicals since 1917, including plastics, resins and emulsion polymers. In Falls Township, NorthPoint Development bought more than 1,800 acres of the former U.S. Steel Fairless Works in December 2020 for $160 million, planning warehouses from 200,000 to 2 million square feet. Building 1 at the Keystone Trade Center is 1.15 million square feet and went to FedEx. The district’s ZIPs include 19007, 19030, 19054, 19055, 19056, 19057 and 19067. Data centers and steel are on the list too.
| ZIP codes | Industries here | Agency to ask about empties |
|---|---|---|
| 19007, 19030, 19054, 19055, 19056, 19057, 19067 | emulsion polymers, resins, data centers, logistics, steel | Pennsylvania DEP |
02Who has empties, who needs totes
Polymer and resin plants send out chemical empties, which need an SDS and a rinse. Logistics tenants send out packaging totes by the pallet. A district this size has the pad volume that a trailer-sized ticket wants, and the buyers are blenders in Burlington and Camden counties across the Delaware.
03Roads, rules and the move
I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike cross the district, US 13 and US 1 serve it, and the Burlington-Bristol Bridge and the Delaware River Turnpike Bridge cross to New Jersey. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is the agency to ask.
04Next door
| Place | ZIP codes | Industries |
|---|---|---|
| Bensalem | 19020, 19021, 19053 | food manufacturing, food distribution, light manufacturing, warehousing |
05On the ground
Bristol and Falls Township are separated from Burlington County by the river, and the Burlington-Bristol Bridge is the shortest crossing. A seller with a pallet or two in a big logistics building should name the dock door and the tenant. Large logistics sites in Falls Township work to appointments, so book a slot before the driver arrives.
06Weather, season and timing
Along the Delaware, fog and river wind can delay a morning truck, and winter ice on the ramps near the Turnpike slows a loaded trailer. Sellers in Falls Township and Bristol should post a second date and keep the dock clear of snow. Buyers on the New Jersey bank who collect by van should ask the seller to wrap the cap with tape, since a tote riding unstrapped on a bridge shifts at every joint.
07A ticket from here
- Put one of the ZIP codes from the first table on the ticket.
- For a pad, say the count and the product, and ask for a trailer-sized match.
?Questions on this page
How big is the Keystone Trade Center?
Its Building 1 is 1.15 million square feet; the developer expects about 15 million in all, per a 2023 report.
Which bridges lead to New Jersey?
The Burlington-Bristol and the Delaware River Turnpike bridges.
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-11. Rules change; read the current text before you act on it.