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Kraft paper

Kraft paper, also called sack paper or brown paper, is a strong paper made from chemical pulp by the kraft process, used chiefly in packaging, sacks, and wrapping.

Kraft process

The kraft process, also called kraft pulping or the sulfate process, converts wood chips into strong cellulose pulp and accounts for about 75% of global pulp production.

Kraft white liquor

Kraft white liquor is the cooking liquor of the kraft pulping process, a solution of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide that dissolves lignin from wood chips.

Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt

The Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA, Federal Motor Transport Authority) is Germany's federal authority for motor vehicles, responsible for EU type approval, vehicle and driver registers, and statistics.

Kraftliner

Kraftliner is a linerboard, the flat facing paper of corrugated board, made predominantly from virgin kraft pulp, giving it the highest strength for its weight among liner grades.

Krak des Chevaliers (قلعة الحصن)

Krak des Chevaliers, also known as Qalʿat al-Hoṣn, is a Crusader castle in Syria held by the Hospitallers from 1142 to 1271 and regarded as the best-preserved Crusader castle.

Kraken (cryptocurrency exchange)

Kraken, also known as Kraken Bitcoin Exchange, is a US cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011 by Jesse Powell after helping Mt. Gox recover from a hack.

Kraken Oil and Gas Field

Kraken is a heavy oil field in the UK sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1985 and operated by EnQuest, which began producing oil in June 2017.

Kraken Technologies

Kraken Technologies is a British software company founded in 2016 inside Octopus Energy, licensing its cloud-based utility operating system to energy companies worldwide, including E.ON Next, EDF, and Origin Energy.

Krämerbrücke

The Krämerbrücke (Merchants' Bridge) is a medieval stone bridge completed in 1325 in Erfurt, Germany, lined with inhabited half-timbered houses along its full 125-meter span, the longest inhabited bridge in Europe.

Kramers–Kronig receiver

The Kramers–Kronig receiver, proposed by Antonio Mecozzi and colleagues in 2016, reconstructs the full optical field of a single-sideband signal from its intensity using a single photodiode.

Krapivinskoye Oil and Gas Asset

Krapivinskoye Oil and Gas Asset (Крапивинское месторождение) is an oil field in the West Siberian basin, in production since 1998 and the largest field of Tomskneft.

Krasnobrodsky Coal Mine

The Krasnobrodsky Coal Mine (Краснобродский разрез) is a surface coal mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, and the first open-pit mine in the Kuzbass region, opened in 1947.

Krasnodar power station

The Krasnodar power station, also known as Krasnodar TETs (Краснодарская ТЭЦ), is a combined heat and power plant in Krasnodar, Russia, and the largest power station in the Kuban region.

Krasnoyarsk GRES-2 power station

Krasnoyarsk GRES-2 (Красноярская ГРЭС-2) is a coal-fired power station of about 1,260 MW in Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, built from 1957 and owned by SUEK since 2020.

Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric plant

The Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric plant (Красноярская ГЭС) is a 6,000 MW hydroelectric station on the Yenisei River at Divnogorsk, Russia, the world's largest when completed in 1971.

Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie

The Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie is a low-cost, stealthy unmanned combat aerial vehicle built by Kratos, first flown in 2019 and now a Marine Corps program of record.

Krauss car-following model

The Krauss car-following model, developed by Stefan Krauß in the late 1990s, is a microscopic traffic flow model and the default car-following model of SUMO.

Krauss-Maffei

Krauss-Maffei is a Munich-based German engineering company founded in 1838, once known for locomotives and Leopard tanks, now the KraussMaffei Group building plastics and rubber machinery.

Krauss-Maffei ML 2200 C'C'

The Krauss-Maffei ML 2200 C'C' was a six-axle diesel-hydraulic locomotive built in Munich in 1957 for the Yugoslav State Railways, where it ran as class 761.

Kravtsovskoye Oil Field

Kravtsovskoye Oil Field (Кравцовское, D-6) is an offshore oil field 22.5 km off the Kaliningrad coast, discovered in 1983 and producing since 2004 for LUKOIL.

KrAZ (Кременчуцький автомобільний завод)

KrAZ, also known as AvtoKrAZ and Kremenchugsky Avtomobilny Zavod, is a Ukrainian truck manufacturer in Kremenchuk that has built heavy off-road trucks since 1959, peaking at 30,655 vehicles in 1986.

Krea

Krea is an American generative AI creative platform founded in 2022 by Victor Perez and Diego Rodriguez, known for a real-time canvas that renders images as the user types or draws.

Kreidler

Kreidler was a German manufacturer, founded in Stuttgart in 1889, that became a leading European maker of 50 cc motorcycles and mopeds before going bankrupt in 1982.

Kreindler & Kreindler

Kreindler & Kreindler is a New York law firm, founded in 1950, that represents aviation accident victims and is described as the largest plaintiffs' aviation firm in the United States.

Kremenchuk-Anan'iv-Bohorodchany Gas Pipeline

The Kremenchuk-Anan'iv-Bohorodchany Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas transmission pipeline in Ukraine running from Kremenchuk through Anan'iv to Bohorodchany, part of the southern transit corridor.

Kremer prize

The Kremer prize is a series of monetary awards for human-powered flight, established in 1959 by Henry Kremer and first won in 1977 by the Gossamer Condor.

Kremlin

The Kremlin (Московский Кремль) is the fortified Moscow fortress that has been the seat of Russian power since the 14th century and the president's residence since 1991.

Kremlin (fortification)

A kremlin (Russian: кремль) is the central fortified part of an old Russian city, containing the prince's residence, churches, and administrative buildings behind its own walls and towers.

Kresling origami metamaterials

Kresling origami metamaterials are architected mechanical materials built from the Kresling pattern, a multistable cylindrical fold arising from twist buckling, used in soft robotics, deployable structures, and energy absorption.