Industry
Sports & wellness
Mats, grips, helmet liners and impact surfaces — natural alternatives to EVA and PU foams.
Cork's elastic recovery exceeds 85% per cycle and holds across millions of cycles without densification. That makes it the obvious choice for yoga mats, grips, padding and impact-attenuation surfaces where synthetic foams compress out of spec.
Sports and wellness brands choose cork when the alternative — EVA or polyurethane foam — fails on either durability or sustainability. Cork's cellular geometry recovers from compression cycle after cycle without the densification that turns a mat or a helmet liner into a hard pad after eighteen months of use.
We supply granulate fractions calibrated to specific bonding and pressing systems. Customers who want a fully natural product use latex or polyurethane-free binders; customers chasing maximum grip use thin cork-rubber composites. Both start with our material as the base.
Applications
Where cork enters the line.
Yoga & fitness mats
Cork-on-rubber composites delivering grip in both dry and damp conditions.
Helmet & padding liners
Closed-cell agglomerates absorbing impact across millions of cycles.
Playground & sports surfacing
Bonded cork-rubber tiles with tested impact attenuation values.
Typical specifications
Material envelope.
- Compression recovery
- >85% per cycle
- Cycles to densification
- >1,000,000 typical
- Coefficient of friction
- Stable across humidity
- VOCs
- Below most stringent EU limits
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