What is a Cork?
Cork is an impermeable buoyant material, the phellem layer of bark tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber,
which is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa.
Cork Suppliers In South Africa
Cork Supply South Africa
Address: 12 Simonsberg Cres, Simonsberg Business Park, Klapmuts, 7625, South Africa
Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 4:30 pm
Phone: +27 21 881 3904
Amorim Cork South Africa
Service options: Delivery
Address: Stellenbosch Agri-Park, Unit 2 Baden Powell Dr, R310, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa
Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 4:30 pm
Phone: +27 21 881 3060
Cape Cork Supply (Pty) Ltd
Service options: In-store shopping
Address: George Blake St, Plankenbrug, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa
Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 4:30 pm
Phone: +27 21 886 4830
What are the raw materials for cork products?
Cork is the renewable bark of the cork oak tree and is harvested by hand without damaging the tree. The bark grows year after year and is harvested for the first time after 25 years.
Further harvests are made every 9 years.
What are the properties of cork?
Compressibility, elasticity, and flexibility.
The high air content of its cells allows it to be compressed to almost half without losing flexibility, and recovering its shape and volume when it stops pressing.
It is the only solid that if compressed on one side, does not increase by the other.