Use cork as planters after hollowing out larger pieces or placing smaller ones as bases for potted plants. Cork is porous, ...

Is cork helping to decarbonise the wine industry? Corticeira Amorim, the world leader in cork stoppers, explains how ...

This is really in so many ways, the perfect insulation, the perfect building material. It lasts forever; this pile of cork is recycled from a 50-year-old industrial cooler.

But if you’re making cork composite materials, the first and the second harvest are enough. Either way, the cork eventually grows back, and a cork oak tree can be stripped more than 15 times ...

Material: “Cork is preferred because it is a material that molds to the shape of your feet over time and is a great material for shock absorption,” she says.

Cork is an unbeatable bottle stopper. It’s compressed by machines, jabbed by wine keys, and assaulted by liquids, only to bounce back, close up the gaps, and continue to keep leftover wine at bay.

Can an ‘inert, semi-crystalline, oxygen-selective membrane, heat-welded to the end of cork’ improve consistency in wine quality? Several winemakers—including at least one with a Top Ten ...

York, the outer bark of the cork oak tree, is a wonderful material. More than half of the world’s cork comes from Portugal, where cork is harvested from a tree about every 10 years. Many cork ...

And interestingly enough, a 2013 study that looked into why cork tainted wine smells so bad found that it was because a certain chemical called "2,4,6-trichloroanisole" that's known to induce cork ...

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