A Japanese team has broken the world record for the longest distance travelled in an electric vehicle on a single charge. The Japan Times reports the four-driver team, featuring 1997 Dakar Rally winner Kenjiro Shinozuka, covered 1300km ...
Tags: Suzuki EV, Single-Charge Record, 1300km, 43-Hour Run
The first hydrocracking reactor arrived to Achinsk refinery on October 28. It is designed for vacuum CGO oil hydrocracking and hydrodesulfurization reactions. Its length is 48.5 m, diameter – 4.4 m, weight including mount – ...
Tags: hydrocracking, Achinsk, transportation, refinery
Harbor Distributing, a Reyes Beverage Group company, has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Allied Beverages Inc (ABI), a wholesale beverage distributor in Northwest Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties. ...
Tags: Allied Beverages, Beer
The famine that plagued Renqiu County, Hebei Province from 1821 to 1851 forced local residents either to leave their homes or die. Among those that fled was Bian Fu, proprietor of a dumpling restaurant, who traveled with his family to ...
Diageo's first quarter (Q1) results were "a miss" for one analyst, while another claimed its performance was "muted" for the three months to September 30. The global brewer and distiller grew organic net sales by 3.1%, below the Shore ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, beer
Chinese company Jin Baohua Carpets has manufactured the largest one-piece rug ever made by using more than 3000 kg of New Zealand wool. The giant rug covers 1018 sq m, and was made by a team of 100 workers who took two months to finish it. ...
An American man has taken the title for owning the world’s smallest road-legal car. After discovering the measurements he had to beat to claim the title, custom car maker Austin Coulson built a fully functional four-wheeler ...
Tags: Road-Legal Car
UK-based spirits maker Diageo is set to sign an agreement with India-based United Spirits, in which its owns 25.02% stake. Under the terms of the agreement, United Spirits will sell Diageo brands in India, effective October 2013. ...
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tyre companies. It employs approximately 69,000 people and manufactures its products in more than 57 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centres in Akron, Ohio and ...
Tags: Tyres, Auto Parts, Goodyear
Before the invention of the refrigerator, icehouses were used to provide cool storage for most of the year. Placed near freshwater lakes or packed with snow and ice during the winter, they were once very common. Natural means are still used ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Refrigerator, frige
The Nissan Patrol has staked its claim for the title of the world’s strongest car, breaking the Guinness World Record for the ‘Heaviest aircraft pulled by a production vehicle’. The new-generation Y62 Patrol towed the ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network ...
Tags: Infinera InP PIC, Electrical, Electronics
According to reports, Leyard officially released the world's largest 4K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) LED large-screen TV in the size of 288 inch, and also launched five LED TV products in the minimum size of 110 inch. The biggest difference ...
Tags: Leyard, UHD LED TV
One of the world’s longest lasting light bulbs is now over 110 years old. Called the Centennial Light, this primitive bulb is located in Livermore, Calif., and is currently maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department. But ...
Tags: Texas Eternal Light, Light Bulb
A BMW M5 now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest sustained drift after covering more than 82km sideways. The record was set by BMW Performance Centre instructor Johan Schwartz in South Carolina, after he steered an unmodified ...