Cork is one of the most sustainable natural materials on the planet. It’s renewable, recyclable and biodegradable. The cork industry also directly contributes to healthy ecosystems and strong ...

One of the more testing challenges issued recently to 40 Portuguese researchers investigating potential new uses of cork was to discover ways of making trees grow faster. “We know this sort of thing ...

The design world has rediscovered cork — and we’re not talking wine stoppers and bulletin boards. Beautiful, fresh examples can be found in furniture and home accessories. Cork is the outer bark of ...

Cork is one of nature’s most remarkable materials. It is a renewable, biodegradable, and versatile resource, cyclically harvested without damaging the trees it comes from. It grows in the ...

Cork is a unique material characterized by its porous texture, softness, and lightweight quality. Historically, architects from Frank Lloyd Wright to Eliel Saarinen to Alvar Aalto to William Massie ...

For more than 150 years, Corticeira Amorim SA has thrived by buying slabs of bark stripped from cork trees in Portugal and transforming them into stoppers. The company annually produces billions of ...

Outside the door to one of the wine shops in our neighbourhood is a small inconspicuous box. Here you can put your cork stoppers for recycling. We do it. And many French people also, because France is ...