After the bark is harvested, it is drilled for wine bottle corks. What is left is reclaimed and ground up to make other products such as flooring. The ground up cork granules are put into large presses and heated up. The high pressure and high heat causes the cork to fuse together and become a large chunks of agglomerated cork. This large block can then be cut into cork flooring or cork underlayment.
Cork flooring offers a distinctive and natural beauty rare to find in other flooring materials.
The unique cellular structure of cork gives this flooring excellent impermeability, resilience, thermal insulation, sound absorbency, and fire retardation. Incredible durable that will not deteriorate by high heels or furniture. Cork naturally warms and enriches any interior when used on the floor, walls and ceiling for a quiet comfortable feeling. Cork is very chemically resistant. It is unaffected by ethyl alcohol, sulfuric acid, acetic acid, benzene and tricholoroethylene.