Cork is used in musical
instruments, particularly woodwind instruments, where it is used to
fasten together segments of the instrument, making the seams airtight.
Conducting baton handles are also often made out of cork.
It is also used in
shoes, especially those using Goodyear Welt
Construction.
Cork can be used...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
USES FOR SCRAP CORK
Once the bottle stoppers have been punched out of the cork
slabs, there is some leftover cork scrap. This scrap is ground up, molded into
large blocks and baked in ovens to make other cork products, such as cork tile
flooring and cork message boards.
Cork has been used as bottle stoppers for more than 400
years. It is possibly...
PROPERTIES OF CORK
The cork is stripped off during
June, July and August using a long-handled hatchet to cut sections out of the
bark. These sections are then pried away from the tree. Workers must be careful
not to damage the inner layer...
SOURCES OF CORK
There are about 2,200,000 hectares of cork forest
worldwide; 34% in Portugal and 27% in Spain. Annual production
is about 200,000 tons; 49.6% from Portugal, 30.5% from Spain, 5.8% from Morocco,
4.9% from Algeria,
3.5%...
CORK
Cork is an impermeable buoyant material, a prime-subset of bark tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the Cork Oak), which is endemic to southwest Europe and...
