Cork continues to establish itself in contemporary design through CORK CROSS, a piece defined by minimalist aesthetics and versatile functionality, presented at the Lithuania Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale.
In this interview, the architect Giacomo Della Villa talks about the lsokinetic clinic in Milan, located in the Piazza Gae Aulenti. A space of excellence for sports rehabilitation.
Cork-based vibration control solutions offer an effective way to enhance performance and significantly extend the operational life of power systems.
Amorim Cork Solutions and Primal Soles drive Circular Economy
A family story of sustainability, connecting Zipse with Amorim Cork Solutions
Innovative Lightweight Mortar with Granulated Cork
Cork at the Core of Innovation
As railways around the world push for higher durability, reduced noise, and lower environmental impact, one key component quietly plays a central role: the rail pad.
New tool enables accurate CO₂ measurement in sealing and vibration solutions, advancing sustainable industrial performance.
New study highlights cork’s superior fire resistance and thermal performance for safer, sustainable construction.
Amorim leads in rail infrastructure innovation, providing cork-rubber composites that meet the growing demand for sustainable, high-performance materials.
CPC are produced by Amorim Cork Solutions (ACS) through an extrusion process in which cork and thermoplastics are mixed to deliver the best of both worlds.
The versatility of cork solutions can be a game-changer in ensuring efficiency, reliability, and longevity of power transformers.
Explore Amorim’s cork-based flooring solutions that offer comfort, performance, and sustainability while reducing environmental impact.
FiberCork combines high performance with sustainability, standing out as the ideal choice for the thermal insulation of electric vehicle batteries.
The use of the injection process in cork composite joints, not only modernizes production but also offers an efficient solution.
Choosing the core depends on the expected technical performance required for the panels, which can vary depending on the application.
Committed to presenting the most sustainable and innovative solutions for the footwear industry, Primal Soles has launched the Primal Slippers, sustainable and recyclable slippers for the hospitality sector.
Sustainable Solutions for Quieter Spaces
Discover the difference a cork solution can make in the operating life of power transformers.
The holiday season is the perfect time to make every detail count, and with Go4Cork’s Christmas Collection, you can add warmth, elegance, and sustainability to your festive gatherings.
A sustainable and versatile material choice for consumers and manufacturers alike.
To guarantee impermeability to hydrogen, Amorim Cork Solutions has tested two cork-based materials: cork&EPDM and cork&NBR. The tests revealed that both seals provide excellent sealing in a 100% hydrogen environment.
Go4Cork's cork products are the perfect solution for keeping your environment organized and efficient.
Amorim Cork Solutions has launched Bio Based Panel, an innovative cork solution to meet the constant challenges imposed by the industry.
As well as being more sustainable, CPC offer a series of technical and visual advantages that make them an excellent choice for vehicle interiors.
Home Accessories with Eco-friendly Design and Packaging. In the scope of this initiative. Amorim Cork Solutions has eliminated the use of plastic film, now comprising only a paper band.
This material has been developed to meet the requirements of modern industrial applications, especially in the field of battery protection for electric vehicles to create a fire-retardant material.
One effective method to achieve structural attenuation is through the use of the cork-based compressed layer damping solutions.
The new creative campaign from Amorim Cork Solutions emphasizes the exceptional durability and sustainability of cork-based underlayments, which provide long-term performance that reduces the need for frequent floor replacements, ultimately extending the lifespan of your floor.
When it comes to domestic gas applications it is essential to ensure effective and reliable sealing solutions. Amorim Tech Seal has been offering innovative and sustainable sealing solutions for such applications for several years.
FiberCork, ensures that the battery not only performs exceptionally but also actively contributes to carbon reduction.
With comfort and sustainability in mind, Vamper has decided to use cork for the first time in a pioneering project to convert a Mercedes Sprinter into a motorhome.
Amorim Cork Solutions has launched the new underlayment Go4Cork ONE, which combines cork with PET foam derived from recycled wind turbine blades.
Amorim Cork Solutions has begun to develop cork composite solutions catered to advances in the hydrogen sector, in particular related to electrolysers.
HYK Outdoors, one of the premier makers of handcrafted campers in the USA, choose cork as a structural and visual material for the breakthrough teardrop camper design.
With companies investing in the development and production of dry (oil-free) transformers, new challenges arise related to the control of vibrations and noise, to which the Amorim T&D range is prepared to respond.
Amorim Cork Solutions is part of various working groups that aim to develop new industrial processes that will ensure the applicability and extensive provision of hydrogen solutions.
This innovative range of multilayer cork solutions aims to improve the thermal protection of electric vehicle batteries, while reducing their environmental impact.
Choosing a high-performance Heavy Mass Layer that also contributes to the industry’s sustainability has become increasingly important. This was how our MAC020 Heavy Mass Layer was born.
Discover all the advantages of cork yoga props.
Cork’s low density with its reduced thermal conductivity and resistance to high temperatures, make it ideal for the development of components for EV batteries.
These underlayments have been subjected to life cycle assessments that confirmed their negative carbon balance.
3 things to consider before installing or changing the floor in your home
A lifecycle assessment concluded that Korko’s “Building Blocks” sets have a negative carbon balance
The Amorim T&D range of solutions are performance-driven and recognized worldwide, with a long track record of application in transformers, reactors, bushings, and other T&D components. But what makes our solutions so unique? The answer comes naturally: cork.
We talk with David Even, the project’s founder to understand how he came up with the idea and the crucial role played by cork.
To help you answer that, we ran the following tests...
Used on the floor of the MONOCABs cork endows lightness, comfort and thermal, acoustic and anti-vibration insulation to the vehicle.
Cork was selected for the new Mobilize vehicles because it is a natural and sustainable raw material.
Cork is the main protagonist of Mac Van Dam’s project, “Vertical Grounds”.
The Artemis I mission used Amorim's cork on the rocket
The ACS Design Studio gave full technical support to the trophy - a piece of art that incorporates the street art language that marks RED’s artistic production.
The cork components used in Amorim NRT®62 flooring solution, with and without a vapour barrier, have been shown to have a negative carbon balance.
Led by innovation, we have developed a range of cork bio composites that offer the mouldability of plastics and the lightness and sustainability of cork.
We spoke with André Mack, Product Manager for the brand's Comfort Flooring, who highlights comfort and sustainability as the main reasons for choosing this raw material.
The underlayment Go4cork Blend with Nike Grind aims to have a positive impact on the environment by creating a sustainable solution based on circular economy principles.
The underlayments are an excellent option for customers who seek to strike a balance between performance and environmental sustainability.
At Amorim Cork Solutions, we place our experience and knowledge of cork at the service of creativity, through the design of different items in which this material makes a difference.
Amorim Cork Solutions is celebrating the successful test flight of a groundbreaking electric plane that used Amorim Cork Solutions materials in its battery system.
Floaters mix cork with recycled polymers, with the ambition of achieving a neutral carbon footprint.
Designer Christian Watson uses cork in his first furniture collection.
Cork was the material chosen for development of the store’s items of furniture.
Our raw material was used to create Brainless Figure in Cork, a sculptural self-portrait by the activist.
Still Room is a multi-purpose space inside Noorderpershuis, a 19th century piece of colossal brick architecture, in Antwerp, that uses cork in order to enhance the stillness of the place
200m2 of cork respond to South African architecture collective Counterspace challenge to build a sustainability-focused installation.
Corticeira Amorim is the official Material Partner of Forest for Change - The Global Goals Pavilion at London Design Biennale 2021.
"From solar energy to electric mobility, the goal is to make this sector one of Amorim's principal growth pillars."
Laurie Wiid van Heerden Interview
The World of Wine (WOW), in Porto, has a museum dedicated to the history and evolution of drinking vessels, in a journey through time, from the first civilizations to the present.
Cork was chosen for the interior lining of the car because it is a sustainable and biodegradable raw material
“We offer high-end solutions, based on specialized know-how, magnifying the beauty and nobility of stone and cork, while respecting it.”
Portuguese designer Marco Sousa Santos is one of the most respected figures in national design. With a contemporary look, often focused on daily life, it is in the elementary nature of materials and objects that he often finds inspiration. Cork is no exception.
In the scope of a partnership with Vitra Design Museum, Amorim Cork Solutions has produced 3,200 agglomerated cork pieces for the exhibition, Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors.
U38 is designed for buildings with stringent acoustic requirements, ensuring performance and sustainability.
Cork House is an innovative project that uses cork as its main building material.
Cork once again inspired and was chosen by artists attending the Biennale.
"Nothing is wasted, everything is valued"
Doghammer Interview
Did you know that today's stoppers may be the trees of tomorrow?
RETALT - Retro Propulsion Assisted Landing Technologies - a project that includes Amorim Cork Solutions.
Designed by the architect Bernard Dubois, Ligne 102 offers a unique and unexpected visual concept of cork.
Cork Infills meet requirements of standards RAL-GZ 944 and DIN-EN 15330-1
Green shipbuilding reaches cruise speed with the help of ACM52, an innovative and sustainable cork-based interior primary decking solution which ensures that ships comply with safety standards while significantly reducing their carbon footprint.
Learn more about our new Multilayer Panel Simulator and how this tool will help your business
Congonhas lamp and Dora coffee table mark the beginning of a partnership between the studio Original Practical Design Limited (OPD) and Corticeira Amorim, which supported the designer in development of these new cork-based items.
SUPERFLEX’s installation incorporates innovative cork solution
Cork was the material highlighted in the June 8 edition of the German journal VDI nachrichten.
The space incorporates various cork-based solutions - in particular wall coverings supplied by Amorim Cork Solutions.
Sobreiro is the new collection from the Brazilian designers, developed in partnership with Corticeira Amorim, Época and the European Capital of Furniture.
The main category of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2018, an initiative that in Portugal is organized by E&Y/ Expresso, was attributed to António Rios de Amorim, Chairman and CEO of Corticeira Amorim.
Project cTPS – Crushable TPS - and Innovative Earth re-entry capsule forms part of the European Space Agency’s Mars exploration programme.
Rio + Design Milan 2018 is the name of the exhibition which, during Milan Furniture Salon (Salone Internazionale del Mobile), will present a major exhibition of works by over 60 Brazilian designers, as part of the event, Be Brasil.
In this interview, the architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça talks about his emblematic work - the Lisbon Cruise Terminal - which uses an innovative solution that endows it with greater structural lightness: concrete mixed with cork.
Amorim Cork Solutions is a partner in the development of an ecological solution to ensure the healthy balance of surface waters.
Interview with Gabriel Tan, designer.
Studio Corkinho is an Antwerp-based design studio, run by two young designers - Cedric Etienne and Klas Dalquist – whose company motto is “It's cork, but not as you know it.”
Interview to Donald Thomas, NASA astronaut.
Visitors to the "Hyundai Commission: SUPERFLEX: One Two Three Swing!" are now able to walk along a colossal cork installation.
FootCork® solutions are strongly dedicated to new cork-based solutions for the entire footwear industry.
Amorim Cork Solutions is a member of the consortium responsible for the patent of a totally innovative system, that makes it possible to print reliable and functional heating circuit systems in cork.
Cork is being used by Aerospace contractors working on the future spacecraft that are expected to take humans to Mars and deep space in the coming decades.
Presented for the first time in Venice Design, held in the context of La Biennale di Venezia 2017, the Curcubita lamps enabled the designer to discover new ways to work with cork, resulting in a creative lighting game.
Amorim Cork Solutions develops a new composite for 3D molding technology.
The artist Ricardo Jacinto has created a temporary cork residence, which will be inhabited by the pianist Marino Formenti, who will sit at the piano, play, sleep, eat and live.
"Blocks" is the name of the mega installation by the designer Rona Meyuchas-Koblenz.
There are three and they draw the attention of those who pass by one of the areas of the Skissernas Museum, in Sweden.
The material library was the main stage for cork´s presentation, where designers and architects had the opportunity to be introduced to the science of nature.
The iconic Palais de Tokyo in Paris was the stage for an artistic intervention where cork emerges as the decisive element in the performative language.
Amorim Cork Solutions is going to hit aerospace again, this time with United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Ruag Space.
The designer talks about how the opportunity and inspiration arose to create the Porto and Lisboa cork tiles for the Beller collection.
Snowboard with Next Core© technology developed by the Swiss company "Anticonf" which integrates Amorim cork, has just won one of the most renowned awards within the sporting goods industry, the ISPO BRAND NEW 2017.
Amorim P50 is a key component for ensuring the safety of the astronauts.
Curated by experimentadesign, this collection produced by Amorim Cork Solutions now includes 24 items designed by 12 national and international designers.
Corticeira Amorim publishes its ninth Sustainability Report for 2014 and 2015.
The initiative got the company and researchers to work side by side, making clear both parties' willingness to collaborate on projects that promote cork as a raw material.
The reforestation was carried out under the "Common Forest" project of Quercus, which has been ensuring the planting of thousands of native trees, since 2011.
The window of the renowned fashion brand Saks Fifth Avenue presents the Lisbon Collection which has cork as the main material.
Simplifying elastic supporting of heavy loads. New engineered compounds (up to 12MPa).
Safety, energy efficiency, natural materials, and more sustainable products.
A sensorial experience at APQHome – MAAT, by Ana Pérez-Quiroga.
A new and innovative concept when cooking with nitrogen.
Amorim Cork Solutions launched a Kaizen project in order to increase its industrial contribution margin. The initiative has already delivered positive results and the company recently received an Honourable Mention in the Kaizen Lean Awards, in the category, 'Excellence in Productivity'.
The focus on new materials and technologies were considered to be directions that should be followed in order to foster a competitive landscape with major growth potential.
“Our meeting in Porto was a big success.”
“The recent MMFA event in Porto, Portugal was the best industry conference that I have attended in my 35 years in the flooring industry.”
To select the best sealing material for a gas system its constituent factors must be considered, such as the type of gas, necessary compressibility, required sealing load or seal thickness.
Whether on land, in the air or water, cork’s properties, combined with Amorim Cork Solutions' expertise, can respond to the great mobility challenges of the future.
Amorim Footcork® Evolution delivers sustainability and innovation, responding to the need of the footwear industry to use more efficient and sustainable materials in its production process.
Main benefits of cork-based or cork infill
The advantages of cork in an underlay and the comparison in terms of performance of this sustainable material with other materials.
The materials in the construction area have undergone constant improvements over time.
How cork became a favoured decoration element in furniture, upholstery, wall coverings, cushions and curtains.
The demand for low noise equipment with good long term performance.
Temperature and resistance are only part of the equation.
Advantages and Performance.
Amorim has been encouraging designers to envision and explore another world.
Environmentally and people-friendly artificial turf system solutions.
Origin, durability and comfort guaranteed.
All products by Amorim Cork Solutions rely on a sustainability model that has been perfected throughout the company’s history.
Installing an underlay plays a critical role in improving the comfort and efficiency of buildings. Cork-based products are an excellent option for underlays.
The advantages of cork in an underlay and the comparison in terms of performance of this sustainable material with other materials.
If you are currently looking to decide on which laminate flooring to use in the remodelling of your home choose, an underlayment that will guarantee maximum comfort and durability.
Vinyl isn’t what it used to be! Discover this new underlay specially designed to meet all LVT flooring requirements.
If you are currently looking to decide on which laminate flooring to use in the remodelling of your home choose, an underlays that will guarantee maximum comfort and durability.
Different types of assemblies and flooring have different needs and there is no single product that is appropriate for all types of flooring.
A few years back, before LVT was on the front page of every publication related to the flooring industry, we had an inquiry from a company in regards to an impact sound solution for vinyl plank flooring.
Cork applied in artificial turf systems
"Cork oak forests provide benefits to society, on average worth more than € 1300 / ha per year"
Innovative cork-based solution for construction improves buildings' air quality.
Stow It is a multi-functional wall shelf which combines stylish design with acoustic properties. Stow It was designed by the renowned designer James Irvine, who previously designed Six, for the Materia collection.
Inspired by the uniqueness and versatility of cork, Monte Meão has developed an innovative concept for railway seats which combines comfort and aesthetics with respect for the environment
At Amorim Cork Solutions, cork has been developed into advanced core materials used across multiple mobility sectors, including recreational vehicles. The Mobility Natural Lightweight (MNL) and Mobility Acoustic Core (MAC) products show how cork’s natural properties can improve structural performance, acoustic comfort, and overall vehicle efficiency.
Amorim Cork Solutions is introducing a new step in sustainable acoustic materials. Our Heavy Mass Layer, designed for high-performance damping and sound insulation, is now available in an FSC® certified version. This development reinforces our commitment to responsible sourcing and natural solutions for modern mobility and marine applications.