Based in Portugal, which produces half the world’s cork, the company makes more than 5.5 billion cork stoppers per year—but it also invests 10 million euros a year in R&D to find new ways to ...

Of the 18 billion wine closures produced annually worldwide, 69 percent are natural or agglomerate cork, 20 percent synthetic stoppers and 11 percent screw caps, according to estimates by ...

Is cork helping to decarbonise the wine industry? Corticeira Amorim, the world leader in cork stoppers, explains how ...

The Cork Collective, New York's exciting new sustainability initiative focused on cork stopper collection and recycling, is proud to announce an environmentally-focused partnership to promote the ...

Amorim Cork produces more than five billion of the approximately 13 billion cork bottle stoppers produced annually across the globe. It's enough to give the family firm comfortable supremacy in ...

Leaders from across the hospitality industry, wine and spirits sectors, and the design community have joined forces to launch an exciting new sustainability initiative focused on cork stopper ...

Among them is the world's largest cork producer Corticeira Amorim, struggling to recover market share in the bottle stopper market, reduced to 70-75 percent from over 90 percent since the 1990s by ...

The cork producer Amorim recently set its sites on eventually completely eliminating cork taint, which can cause off and musty flavors in wine, in natural cork stoppers by 2020. Ironically, lower ...