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Igloo Products Corp. is an American manufacturer of ice chests, drink containers, and supporting accessories. It is headquartered in Katy, Waller County, Texas, United States. Igloo is a subsidiary of the Dometic Group. The company was founded in 1947 in Katy and is known for its blue and white coolers.
This is a list of notable ice cream brands. Ice cream is a frozen dessert , usually made from dairy products such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors. However, not all frozen desserts can be called ice cream.
An icemaker, ice generator, or ice machine may refer to either a consumer device for making ice, found inside a home freezer; a stand-alone appliance for making ice, or an industrial machine for making ice on a large scale. The term "ice machine" usually refers to the stand-alone appliance.
In November 2006, private equity fund Permira acquired the BirdsEye and Iglo businesses from Unilever for €1.7bn, forming the BirdsEye Iglo Group. In 2010 BirdsEye Iglo Group purchased the Italian frozen food business Compagnia Surgelati Italiana SPA from Unilever for €0.8bn, and reunited the Findus brand in Sweden into the group that had previously been managed as one business under ...
An igloo constructed with snow blocks will thermally insulate its interior from its exterior. It is known that, whilst snow itself has a temperature below the freezing point of water 0 °C (32 °F), it has excellent thermally insulative properties as it consists of air pockets trapped between ice crystals. [1]
An igloo (Inuit languages: iglu, [1] Inuktitut syllabics ᐃᒡᓗ (plural: igluit ᐃᒡᓗᐃᑦ)), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow. Although igloos are often associated with all Inuit , they were traditionally used only by the people of Canada's Central Arctic and the Qaanaaq area of ...
A slab of pykrete Pykrete is made of 14% sawdust and 86% water by mass.. Pykrete (/ ˈ p aɪ k r iː t /, PIE-creet) [1] is a frozen ice composite, [2] originally made of approximately 14% sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86% ice by weight (6 to 1 by weight).
The company added free maintenance for the first 2 years or 24,000 miles for all its new cars sold, starting with the 1992 model year. It also added a 10-year or 100,000-mile (160,000 km) powertrain warranty (known as the Hyundai Advantage) to its vehicles sold in the United States, it is now known as the America Best Warranty. [54]