What is Cork
100% natural, reusable and recyclable, cork is, whether from the environmental, social or economic perspectives, one of the world’s most versatile materials.
Health & Orthopaedic
Health
Reduce and prevent foot illness.Footcork is nature providing a better quality of life
Cork is abundantly used in orthopedics and podiatry applications. It has proved to reduce and prevent foot illness, resulting in a better quality of life. Orthopedic soles and other components are intended to correct, relieve and better distribute the pressure and shape in the interface between shoe and foot. Cork is a process friendly material which makes manufacturing components an easy and cost effective task. Cork is also used extensively to reshape custom forms.
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High comfort performance, lightweight, compression recovery, warm feeling, excellent thermal insulation and hypoallergenic
Footcork sheets and rolls of carefully selected raw materials enable simple and easy machining and thermoforming. The different granularity of the carefully selected raw materials allows developing simple and comfortable molded forms, in order to meet the most demanding needs of patients in orthopedic care.
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100% natural, reusable and recyclable
Amorim Cork Composites extensive experience in the footwear industry, together with its clients and partners, has resulted in an increased technical specialization of its products and positioned the footwear industry as a strategic business.
Resources
Footcork® Future
Footcork® Future the new thermoformable material, specially developed for thermoformed insoles and orthopaedic components.Future, brings to the footwear industry a sustainable product using two prime raw materials - natural cork and EVA.
Cork grows in orthopaedic and comfort footwear
From the cork oak tree creating comfort in the footwear industry.
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