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2. Drum (container) - Wikipedia

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   A drum (also called a barrel) is a cylindrical shipping container used for shipping bulk cargo. Drums can be made of steel, dense paperboard (commonly called a fiber drum), or plastic, and are generally used for the transportation and storage of liquids and powders. Drums are often stackable, and have dimensions designed for efficient warehouse ...

3. Shipping tube - Wikipedia

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   In 1904 the Monroe Binder Board Company introduced the first large cylindrical juteboard shipping containers for packaging cheese, and convolute drums wound from kraft paper saw widespread use in WWII. Several methods for making spiral-wound composite cans, which could be made from continuous strips of paper, were introduced between 1900 and ...

4. Cardboard box - Wikipedia

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   Cardboard boxes were developed in France about 1840 for transporting the Bombyx mori moth and its eggs by silk manufacturers, and for more than a century the manufacture of cardboard boxes was a major industry in the Valréas area. [15] [16] The advent of lightweight flaked cereals increased the use of cardboard boxes.

5. Netizens Reveal 33 Of The Weirdest Deliveries They’ve Ever ...

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   Fueled by the company’s Prime membership program which offers free shipping, more American households than ever before are relying on Amazon to ferry products to their doorsteps, reinforcing the ...

6. Dynamite - Wikipedia

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   Dynamite is usually sold in the form of cardboard cylinders about 200 mm (8 in) long and about 32 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) in diameter, with a mass of about 190 grams (1 ⁄ 2 troy pound). [7] A stick of dynamite thus produced contains roughly 1 MJ ( megajoule ) of energy. [ 8 ]

7. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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   Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. In the context of international shipping trade, "container" or "shipping container" is virtually synonymous with " intermodal freight container " (sometimes informally called a "sea can"), a container designed to be moved ...