Innovation Culture
In our innovation team, our mission is to systematically develop solutions that allow us to be competitive and explore strategic areas where the characteristics of cork are highly valued by clients and consumers, adding value to the organization and its shareholders.
We believe our innovation processes will be more effective if we integrate a range of knowledge and skills from outside the organization. This is why we work daily in order to expand our innovation network to organizations in the scientific system, to technology centers, and to R&D companies, promoting the unique characteristics of cork and disseminating our innovation
challenges.
From our perspective, we are fully interested in developing solutions that can contribute to the thermal and acoustic performance of cork when applied to the construction area, preferably integrating recycled raw materials or sub-products from other industries. Other areas of interest are those involving materials for vibration control, sports floors, furniture, the aerospace and transport industries, among others.
We would like to invite you to join our innovation network.
Amorim Cork Composites has always been committed to ensuring the transition from a linear economy of “take, make and dispose” to a circular economy.
Amorim Cork Composites has always been committed to ensuring the transition from a linear economy of “take, make and dispose” to a circular economy.
Cork, as part of the world’s forests, helps maximize carbon sequestration and consequently counters global warming and climate changes. Cork is the bark of Quercus Suber L. and is renewed every nine years.
Amorim Cork Composites is also using sub-products from cork stoppers production as raw material. This value-chain ensures use for materials that would otherwise be wasted.
Amorim Cork Composites goes further in systematic use of sub-products, namely by using sub-products from the footwear, automotive and packaging industries.
Amorim Cork Composites’ new approach is based on the knowledge that product design, throughout its life cycle, has huge relevance on environmental impacts. We are committed to ensuring that the design of products extends their function as far as possible. This is our working philosophy and we want to spread the message. For this reason, we are the industrial partner of Katch_e, in an European project entitled: Training for Circular Economy in the Construction and Furniture Sectors.
This product is a new generation of composite material incorporating cork. It is implemented as an innovative solution for use in artificial turf: its application is similar to that of a substrate, replacing traditional recycled rubber pellets. V2 significantly reduces the surface temperature of the turf, having a direct impact on the level of comfort for players.
This product, widely used in the USA, reduces water consumption in artificial turf maintenance, allowing high biomechanical performance of the artificial grass system.
The use of cork in footwear dates back to the 3rd century B.C. This new material – which has already been launched internationally – combines cork with an elastomeric polymer that ensures comfort for the end user.
We recently launched a set of solutions for application under floating and LVT floors. These solutions combine cork with recycled material, ensuring the mechanical, thermal, and acoustic performance that our clients require so they can achieve highly demanding performance.
Amorim Cork Composites develops a product suitable for the food industry
Aware of the need to permanently update itself, Amorim Cork Composites is now launching a line of “Food Contact” materials, consisting of products suitable for being in contact with food. These solutions, made of cork, a 100% natural and recyclable resource, are the answer to an ever more demanding market, in terms of aspects such as environmental sustainability and public health.
The secret involves integrating a new technology into cork, thus ensuring total safety for any food that is in direct or indirect contact with the product and, naturally, for the consumer as well. This provides a natural and effective alternative while ensuring compliance with the regulations set out in European (Regulation 10/2011 of the European Union) and German (LFGB) standards. Cork is the obvious choice when the aim is using an ecological, sustainable, and easily processable material, as the machining and manufacturing processes involved (such as lamination, cutting, creasing, and printing) are quicker and more cost-effective.
