Raw Cork

Raw cork — also called reproduction cork — is the bark stripped from cork oaks on their nine-year harvest cycle, after the first two harvests have improved the bark's regularity. It is the primary raw material that feeds every downstream cork product.

Cork is one of the few industrial materials harvested without felling the tree. Every nine years, skilled workers strip the outer bark by hand. The tree closes the wound, regrows the bark, and lives on — typically for 200 years or more, contributing to a cork oak forest (montado) ecosystem that supports rare wildlife and fixes more carbon per hectare than most other Mediterranean land uses.

We supply raw cork as planks, sorted by thickness and quality class, to downstream transformers and to specifiers who want the unmediated material — for cladding, for substrate work, or as the input to their own production line.