When we think of cork, we might simply think of wine bottle stoppers. But the material, which has been used for thousands of years in various applications, is finding contemporary expression in a new ...

Portugal, the world's leading cork producer, is finding new uses for the material, from footwear to furniture, as demand for ...

This inevitably means that no two corks are exactly the same: the difference may be so small that only a super computer could tell it, or it may be obvious to the naked eye. Next, the bottle is most ...

Waitrose is trialling a recycling scheme for natural cork in hopes of keeping its annual consumption of 25 million corks out ...

Portugal, the world's leading cork producer, is finding new uses for the material, from footwear to furniture, as demand for wine bottle stoppers wanes. Producers highlight the environmentally ...

Making wine bottle stoppers, however, remains the main activity for Portugal's cork industry, which employs around 8,000 people. Corticeira Amorim makes some six billion cork wine bottle stoppers ...