Cork granules supply in 2024
The cork sector in general is going through a transition at the moment, principally driven by a shift in demand…
The cork sector in general is going through a transition at the moment, principally driven by a shift in demand…
An innovative builder/architect from Austin Texas calld Moontower has been experimenting with cladding buildings with expanded cork and in this…
We have been selling a lot of cork lids recently, most frequently for candles, but also for some dry foods…
There has been massive investment in Portugal from the main players in the cork industry in injection moulding machines to…
In recent years in the world of bar-top corks, there has been a massive shift away from plastic capsules to…
Here at CorkLink we do not generally work with stock sizes of bar-top corks, for the simple reason that there…
Agglomerated cork used to be used mainly to make wine corks, using the extrusion method, but this method has now…
Cork is harvested only during the Summer, so in the cork industry, the annual cycle starts in September. The 2022/2023…
Cork is derived from the bark of the Cork Oak tree (Quercus Suber). The bark gets stripped every nine years…
The most common way to install expanded cork for a retro-fit is on the outside wall. Put simply you stick…
Around 10 years ago, there began a noticeable change in customers for bar-top stoppers – increasingly customers wanted to move…
It looks like the 2022 cork harvest in Portugal is going to be substantially lower than previous years, which will…
Our trade association, APCOR, generally produces a video every year to promote cork. APCOR represents all the major cork suppliers…
Whilst expanded cork has traditionally been used inside walls to provide insulation, it can also be used on the outside…
If you looking to personalise your bar-top cork capsules with a logo or brand name, there are essentially 3 options…
Expanded cork has all sorts of fantastic qualities when used for insulation, but of course the most important one will…
There are two methods for manufacturing agglomerated cork stoppers – individual moulds is a relatively new technology and is completely…
The entire bar-top cork sector is suffering from a shortage of wooden capsules, which is leading to lead times of…
Here we are going to consider the options of using micro-agglomerated cork or natural cork for bar-top stoppers. Micro-agglomerated cork…
There are many advantages to using natural cork stoppers rather than agglomerated or synthetic, but it can be confusing deciding…
Both expanded cork and agglomerated cork are made from cork granules that are bonded together and here we will look…
Getting the fit right for a bar-top cork is not as easy as it may appear, because unlike wine bottles,…
Business insider has recently broadcast a informative video which has some good insights into how cork bark is removed from…
We are a specialist supplier of bar-top corks for spirits and there is growing demand from premium spirits brands to…
Once you have decided that cork (rather than synthetic) is the way to go for your bar-top stoppers, you will…
Yoga is undoubtedly in fashion at the moment and many yoga enthusiasts love the environmentally friendly story that cork brings…
Bar-top corks with wood capsules are popular at the moment – it reflects a growing awareness about using sustainable packaging…
It can often be the case that small increase in the diameter of a cork stopper can dramatically increase the…
There is a large range of different qualities of natural cork available – here we will discuss only natural cork…
Expanded cork is one of the most environmentally forms of insulation and can be used to insulate walls, roofs and…
We supply a number of clients all over the world with cork lids for glass and ceramic candle holders (both…
Our approach to working with the coronavirus pandemic is that we will do what we can to keep our cork…
When ordering natural cork granules (as opposed to expanded cork granules), density is the most important factor that you will…
Over the last few years there has been an abundance of new spirits brands launched on to a thirsty public,…
There is a tremendous variety in the quality of the cork that is harvested from the cork oak trees and…
There are a lot of misunderstandings around about where corks come from and how cork products are made, so this…
Expanded cork is made in an autoclave, which is essentially a press where cork granules are added and placed under…
Cork itself is one of the most environmentally friendly materials on the planet – it is made by removing the…
Over the last few years we have seen a strong growth in demand for bar-tops corks made with wooden capsules…
In the UK, the Stirling Prize is awarded to the country’s best new building and in the shortlist is a…
Portugal is responsible for producing around 70% of the world’s cork and behind the supply of cork stoppers, cork insulation…
Generally for items made out of cork other than cork stoppers, agglomerated cork is used as it is by far…
Over the past few years demand for cork granules to replace rubber for infill for artificial turf for football pitches…
In 2017 we had a visit from Paul and Blanka Troop who were self-building an eco-house to be featured on…
Expanded cork is made by taking resin rich cork granules (which come from the bark of the branches of Cork…
The gin sector has undoubtedly been the most dynamic spirits sector in recent years and hardly a week goes by…
We have had a lot of requests for cork stools and cork tables recently – generally we produce cork stools…
Expanded cork is never going to be as cheap as synthetic insulation materials (although given its extended lifespan and capacity…
One of the areas we specialise in here at CorkLink is making bar-top corks (also known as capsulated corks) for…
Cork is made from the bark of the cork oak tree – every 9 years the bark of the tree…
We supply cork rolls for underlay and insulation in two densities, 180-190 kg/m3 (CR21) and 200-220 kg/m3 (CR30) in thicknesses…
When making cork lids and larger stoppers for jars, candle holders, jugs etc, you essentially have two options if you…
Across the world and in the UK in particular at the moment, there is a real movement to minimise the…
Portugal is by far the largest cork supplier in the world and in 2017, sales reached €970 million, a record…
Over the last 12 months the price of cork granules (and as a result cork blocks and sheets) has risen…
We supply conical cork stoppers of a wide range of sizes, starting from a few mms up to 20cm. As…
Generally expanded cork is used to insulate the roof or walls of a building, but it can also be used…
When expanded cork boards are initially produced in autoclaves with a size of 1000x500x300mm, sometimes the natural resin that binds…
There are two great options for cork insulation boards that have some different properties as well as a different appearance,…
We receive a number of requests from distillers looking for used port wine barrels and other refurbished fortified wine barrels,…
Cork are made from the bark of the cork oak tree (known in Portugal as the “Sobreiro”). It takes 25…
Expanded cork is one of natures miracle products. It is made by granulating resin rich cork bark that cannot be…
Here is a short video showing how cork is harvested. Note that cork is made from the bark of the…
We supply cork memo boards (as well as white boards and chalk boards), generally in 3 sizes: 30x40cm, 40x60cm and…
5 years ago, 1+1 corks (also known as technical corks) were extremely popular in the market, but in more recent…
John Gilman writes the highly regarded wine newsletter View from the Cellar and it was great to hear the bile…
Here is a video about how important it is to preserve the natural cork forests of Portugal and Spain, a…
Something like 70% of the world’s cork comes from Portugal and given the worldwide connectivity that the internet gives us…
Cork dust or cork powder is produced when corks are ground down to size using grinding stones, which results in…
We supply cork granules direct from our facilities in Portugal to customers all round the world. We regularly get asked…
Natural cork has a confusing system of different qualities, which could be a lot more simple, but unfortunately isn’t! The…
We supply a complete range of conical corks sizes direct from Portugal, from size 000 (6.3/4.0 x 12.7mm) up to…
Here is a film about why natural cork from Portugal is the best solution for bottling wine both in terms…
A study was carried out a few years ago by PriceWaterhouseCoopers to look at the environmental impact of different wine…
At CorkLink we are just as proud to serve our small customers as our large ones and one of our…
Not so long ago, all corks were what are now termed natural, that is punched out of the cork bark…
We receive a lot of questions about how cork stoppers should be stored once they have been received by clients.…
Here at CorkLink of course we love natural cork – what is there not to like? It comes from sustainable…
We supply natural cork balls in sizes of 8, 10, 16, 18, 20 and 25mm (and agglomerated cork balls in…
There are not many industries that Portugal can claim to be the world leader in, but cork is one of…
It will come as no surprise that here are CorkLink we are passionate defenders of using cork to seal wine…
We have a stock of 700 used wine casks/barrels 500 litres each in heights of 1.50m and 1.17m available for…
So should you choose agglomerated or natural corks for your stoppers? Assuming that you are not going to use a…
The system of classifying natural wine corks into different quality categories is to say the least a complex one. The…
Because cork is a natural product that can only be harvested from one kind of oak tree, there is a…
Here is our price list for expanded cork boards. The prices are per m2 and some minimum order quantities apply…
Natural wine corks are still used to seal the vast majority of the world’s best wines, because all the other…
On top of a haystack, five kilometers from Evora, the Ecorkhotel has been built, with the principal external walls clad…
We supply conical corks in both agglomerated and natural cork – and below are the standard sizes that are available.…
Five to ten years ago there were various people declaring that the cork industry would be largely consigned to history…
Expanded cork (or black cork) is made from the bark of the cork tree that is of too poor a…
In recent years there has been a lot of development in using cork agglomerate in innovative ways, by mixing different…
1+1 corks are made from an agglomerated cork body with natural cork discs glued on to each end. So natural…
Expanded cork was developed in the mid 1990s to provide a 100% natural insulation material, using parts of the cork…
The production techniques for premium natural corks have been revolutionised in recent years to guarantee negligible levels of contamination and…
Over 70% of the world’s wine corks are made in Portugal and the percentage is quite a lot higher than…
We supply a lot of custom Bar-top or T-Top corks (also known as capsulated closures) – we can make most…
Some of our clients like to buy their corks together with the capsules and we are of course very happy…
There have been a lot of advances in the moulded (or molded for USA readers!) cork sector recently. Essentially the…
Cork is actually just another name for the bark of particular oak tree (Quercus suber, more commonly known as Cork…
Larger conical corks are generally made by punching the corks out of agglomerated cork boards, whilst smaller conical corks can…
Sourcing wine corks can be a complicated business – even if you have decided to use natural corks (rather than…
Natural cork fabric is made by making a large block of small pieces of cork (which are in fact off-cuts…
We have recently been producing some bar-top corks for olive oil bottles, using micro-agglomerated cork. We produced a capsulated (Bar…
We supply tapered cork stoppers in a variety of standard sizes and we can also produce custom tapered corks to…
10 years ago, things didn’t look that great for the cork stoppers industry, with strong growth in sales of plastic…
The best quality corks are natural corks, which are simply punched out of the bark of the cork oak tree…
Micro-agglomerated corks are a recent advance in the industry that compared to standard agglomerated corks give: – more elasticity, –…
Capsulated corks (also known as bar-top corks) can be natural or agglomerated stoppers normally with a wooden or plastic top…
There are just about as many different kinds of cork wine stoppers as there are kinds of wine, so it…
Premium quality sparkling wine/champagne cork stoppers are considered technical corks as they constitute an agglomerate cork granule body to which…
When natural cork stoppers are punched out of cork bark, there is a lot of cork left over and this…
Cork is a pretty extraordinary material and that is why it has so many uses. The key to cork’s many…
So how do you get from a piece of cork oak tree bark to a natural cork stopper that nurtures…
10 years ago Portugal was exporting a billion euros worth of cork products a year, but exports slumped mainly because…
Cork has a long history of being used as a natural insulation product, providing thermal, acoustic and vibration insulation as…
There are several kinds of cork stoppers that are commonly manufactured, ranging from premium natural cork to agglomerated cork and…