Bottle Cork
Bottle Cork *** Applications: Residential, Commercial and Travel ** Increase Shelf Life *** Relevant Background: " Cork is an impermeable buoyant material, the phellem layer of bark tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the cork oak), which is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa . Cork is composed of suberin , a hydrophobic substance. Because of its impermeable, buoyant, elastic, and fire retardant properties, it is used in a variety of products, the most common of which is wine stoppers . The montado landscape of Portugal produces approximately half of cork harvested annually worldwide.. Cork's elasticity combined with its near-impermeability makes it suitable as a material for bottle stoppers ,.. Cork has an almost zero Poisson's ratio , which means the radius of a cork does not ...