Footwear

Performance footwear and fashion brands choose cork when they need a credible sustainability story without compromising on rebound, durability or tactile quality. Our material enters the line at the granulate stage and leaves it as a midsole, an insole or a structured leather backing.

Footwear brands face a real tension: customers expect sustainability claims to hold up under scrutiny, and they expect the shoe to perform. Cork is one of the few materials that delivers both without a trade-off. Its rebound, at the right density, matches EVA. Its origin story is the cork oak — a tree that regenerates its bark on a nine-year cycle without being felled.

We work with performance brands at the formulation stage. The brief usually starts with a target rebound and a target environmental profile; we calibrate the granulometry and density to land both, and supply the material into the customer's pressing line.

For accessories and leather goods, our thin sheet agglomerates wrap curved forms and bond with water-based adhesives — a quiet, tactile alternative to coated synthetics.