• Replaces building materials with negative ecological impacts - Life cycle assessment improvement

• Stores biogenic carbon

• 100% made from renewable natural cork

• Technical drying is carried out using
  thermal energy with own waste from the shredding process - CO₂-neutral

• antiallergic

• Breathable - regulates room climate and room temperature - contributes to healthy living

#biogen:

• The cork oak, Quercus suber L., is native to semi-arid regions of southern Europe and is the habitat of 140 plant and 55 animal species. Cork is the organ tissue parenchyma that covers the trunk and branches

• Stomata on the surface of the leaves absorb CO₂ and cork oaks use it to build up sugar, i.e. carbon.

• These carbohydrates serve both as a source of energy and as a building material from which cork oaks, for example, produce beef. -> 6 H₂O + 6 CO₂ = 6 O₂ + C₆H₁₂O₆ (glucose)

• Cork oaks that are regularly peeled produce 250% to 400% more cork than without peeling

• The use of cork products, which requires extraction, leads to the formation of more cork on the tree, which corresponds to a larger amount of bound CO₂.

• If cork is used, the absorbed CO₂ is stored for long periods of time.

• Cork oaks are only "peeled" every 9 years and only to the extent that does not damage the tree!

• Cork is treated with steam heated by steam generators and expands to the specific weight required for the area of application.

• Agglomeration is based on the cork's own resins

• Cork also has considerable chemical and biological stability and is highly fire-resistant

• Cork is already the product - 100% natural and ecological, an advantage that is unparalleled in other competing materials!

• Cork grows without additional energy and without producing pollutants.

• Durability - Many houses built in Lisbon in the 1940s and 1950s still have their original cork flooring and wall coverings.

• Insulation - as thermal, sound and vibration insulation material

• Filler - granules for filling cavities and for
  mortar mixtures

• Joints - insulation, expansion or compression joints

• Coverings - intermediate floors, floors, ceilings, skirting boards, linoleum

• Industrial - as a vibration damper for industrial appliances and
  insulating material for cooling technology

• 45% suberin - responsible for compressibility/elasticity

• 27% lignin- structural sugar for cell wall structure

• 12% polysaccharides - linked to the cork structure

• 6% wax-containing substances - water-repellent and important
  for impermeability - phenolic compounds provide protection against attacks by biological organisms

• 6% tannins - color and material protection/preservation
  

• 4% ash - polymeric-complex structural components
  and non-structural components

• CO₂ calculation according to ÖKOBAUDAT current version 2021-II from 25.06.2021 according to EN15804+A2

• APCOR - Portuguese Cork Association

• Gil (2012) 'Cork as a building material - technical guide'.