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Cardboard Box World Records

• The world’s largest cardboard box was more than 8, 362 cubic feet, with dimensions of 20’1.2” x 46’1.2” x 9’.3”.
• The world’s largest cardboard box pyramid took 32 hours to build and consisted of nearly 52, 000 perfume boxes reaching 10 feet tall.
• The world’s largest cardboard box sculpture is a medieval castle replica measuring 112 feet long, 7 feet tall and 72 feet long - a total of around 8, 000 square feet.
• The largest box cutter in the world measured 32 inches long, 3 inches wide and 11 inches tall.

Truck World Records

• The largest truck convoy included 416 trucks.
• The world’s largest semi-truck weighs in at more than 71 metric tons (more than 156, 000 pounds).
• The world’s fastest “package loading - unloading” from a truck occurred in Turkey at 16.5 minutes.
• The world’s most fuel efficient 40 ton truck is made by Mercedes Benz and gets about 15 mpg.
• The world’s longest truck-mounted crane arm measures in at more than 282 feet.

Shipping World Records

• Panama is the world’s largest shipping register, with 6, 143 ships and 100 million gross tonnage.
• At 600 ships a day and 1.4 billion gross tonnage a year, The Dover Strait is the busiest shipping lane in the world.

Warehouse and Factory World Records

• The loudest steam whistle belongs to the New York Wire company and is 134 dBA and heard over five miles away.
• The world’s oldest pharmaceutical factory has been in operation in China since the year 1600.
• The world's most industrialized country is Saudi Arabia, where 62% of its GDP comes from industry.
• The most chemically polluted industrial town is located in Russia, where the town’s average life expectancy is only about 45 years old.
• The largest data warehouse is run by IBM and has 3 petabytes of data.
• The most man-hours a factory has gone without injury/accident is more than 211 million in a South Korean factory.

Machines, Material Handling Equipment, and Robots World Records

• The heaviest weight ever lifted by glue is close to 18, 000 pounds by 3M’s “Scotch Weld”. The glue was able to lift an entire forklift loaded with weights.
• The world’s largest ball of plastic wrap is more than 280 pounds and 138 inches in diameter.
• The world’s first safety elevator debuted in 1853
• The world’s smallest robotic tweezers are made to hold objects no larger than 10 micrometers.
• The strongest robot arm can hold more than 2, 600 pounds.
• The world’s fastest robot at solving a Rubik’s Cube can do so in 5.2 seconds.
• The first case of a robot killing a human happened in 1979.
• The world’s largest spring steel mosaic weighs over 500 pounds, is more than 110 feet and contains 2 million spring steel pieces.
• The world’s largest paper clip weighs more than 1, 150 pounds, is 30.5 feet tall and 9 feet wide.
• The largest piece of art consisting only of screws depicts the poet Homer, and contains more than 235, 000 metal screws.
• The largest t-shaped broom is more than 38 feet long and almost 20 feet wide.

Tape World Records

• The world’s fastest time to duct tape yourself to a wall is 2 minutes and 12 seconds. The fastest time to have someone else duct tape you to a wall is 41 seconds.
• The world’s largest ball of magnetic tape is more than 1, 250 pounds and nearly seven feet tall and wide.
• The world’s largest ball of any type of tape is nearly 13 feet in circumference and 2, 000 pounds.

Random World Records Set in Warehouses or with Material Handling Equipment

• The most plastic bottles recycled in an 8-hour period took place in a warehouse in China and included more than 19, 400 pounds of bottles recycled.