How cork — the same material used to seal wine bottles — could save the planet 06:02. Lisbon, Portugal — The sound of a cork popping out of the end of a bottle is known across the world.It ...

Except for the cellphone hitched to his belt, 79-year-old Jose Joaquin da Silva Perdigao has been harvesting cork in Portugal's forests in much the same way for more than half a century.

Amorim and O-I's Helix is a screw cork and bottle system aimed at the popular premium, fast turnaround, non-sparkling table wine market. The aim is that in an era when wine now comes in boxes ...

From buildings to high-speed trains, Portugal’s Corticeira Amorim wants to sell cork products for uses beyond wine bottle stoppers. The plan requires drastically cutting down the time it takes ...

“Corks can deteriorate over time, leading to oxidation, and there’s always the risk of cork taint from TCA,” says Austin Bridges, the wine director at Nostrana and Enoteca Nostrana in Portland.

The Portuguese company Corticeira Amorim is the world's largest producer and distributor of cork. For 150 years, the company has expanded the Portuguese cork industry, but 20 years ago, the entire ...

Cork oak bark is prized for its lightweight, elastic qualities which makes it ideal for a number of uses including as wine stoppers (Credit: Amorim) ...

Corticeira Amorim makes some six billion cork wine bottle stoppers per year, almost all of them for export mainly to Chile, France and the United States.

“Corks can deteriorate over time, leading to oxidation, and there’s always the risk of cork taint from TCA,” says Austin Bridges, the wine director at Nostrana and Enoteca Nostrana in Portland.

For Amorim, the list of alternative uses for cork seems endless. "It's very important for us that we use the raw material ...