Cork is not a kind of wood, it is the bark of the oak tree.

It takes between nine and twelve years for the bark to grow back thick enough to be harvested again. After harvest, as the trees begin to grow back their bark, they suck up to five times more carbon from the atmosphere. They do this to fuel the photosynthesis that the regrowth requires.

That carbon is then locked away in the bark. For every kilogram of cork produced, cork oaks absorb an average of 55 kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere. The cork industry supports huge areas of cork oak forests, 2.7 million hectares to be exact, cleaning the earth's air at remarkable rates.

Characteristics of Cork

1. Natural and ecofriendly material, especially it is biodegradable
2. Lightness and buoyancy
3. Impermeability to liquids and gases, due to the presence of suberin, which means it does not rot, making it one of the best insulation materials in existence
4. Elasticity and Flexibility
5. Resistance to wear and tear, friction and longevity
6. Low sound and vibration conductivity; cork acts as an acoustic corrector, reducing soundvolume by an average of 20 to 30dB depending on frequency. This is because it contains gaseous elements which a sealed inside small impermeable compartments isolated from one other
7. Good thermal insulator (thermal resistance of -180ºC to 110ºC)

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